We asked ambassadors from five much snowier countries what they do for fun in winter—and what they think of the season here.
These articles appear in the January 2019 issue of Washingtonian.
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Karin Olofsdotter lights a lot of Ikea candles and drinks a lot of coffee.
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Lars Gert Lose loves Christmas markets and having his kids plow snow outside the embassy.
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Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi's strategies involve sauna, shoveling snow, and "downshifting"
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Kåre Aas talks skiing to the embassy and his favorite patterned sweaters.
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Jonatan Vseviov wants you to get a good pair of warm winter boots.
Helen joined Washingtonian in January 2018. She studied Journalism and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She recently won an Online News Award for her work on a project about the effects of the Salton Sea, California’s greatest burgeoning environmental disaster, on a Native American tribe whose ancestral lands are on its shores. Before joining the magazine, Helen worked in Memphis covering education for Chalkbeat. Her work has appeared in USA Today, The Desert Sun, Chalkbeat Tennessee, Sunset Magazine, Indiewire, and others.
