Everyone was determined to move more than 1000 miles from the UK to a better life in Scandinavia. Such was the obsession of my colleague from the British Library that she had applied to register as a researcher at the Academy of Finland. As for me, my plan was simply to emigrate to Turku. This choice was based on two main factors: Turku is a town not far from sites of archaeological interest, and runs a tram system that actually operates.