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Miranda Bryant in Åland

Summer sun in Finland? Åland isles aim to lure tourists to cooler climate

A red wooden boat house sits at the edge of the water on the archipelago, as trees cover the coastline and clouds are reflected on the still water
An early morning view in the Åland archipelago. Photograph: Dani65finn/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Jenny Björklund was out on an island in Finland’s Åland archipelago with a friend when they saw a boat approaching across the Baltic Sea. She assured her friend, who was visiting from Gothenburg in Sweden, that they would be left alone.

“Don’t worry, they won’t come here because we are here. This is our island,” Björklund, a co-owner of a restaurant and distillery on the archipelago, says she told her friend. Sure enough, she was right.

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