I still find the magnesium thingy a pain in the butt,so I go to matches and lighters,I know it would be better to learn now,rather than trying/training in a real situation..
Jontte,
As funny as this sounds, when I light the BBQ, I take a few minutes just to keep practice by using different ways to start a fire. I know it does sound a little urban...AKA, since their are a few that think that some of us are lol...arm chair or key board people. I can assure you that each day, I take a few minutes to do something prep related that is not just focused on food preps.
Here is something that can be practiced at your home, get a cheap BBQ grill, mine I picked up at the Dollar General...don't know if you have one of those in Helsinki, but sure you have something comparable. The grill should cost a few Euro's. List all the possible fire starters you have and also the list of kindling you might be able to acquire both urban and rural. Practice both during rain and winter...these seem to be the two challenges most people have...sure you remember your military training on that. Get one of the family members to time you with a stop watch..
Flint and steel is solid, its fast and for me cheap...I get the steel wool stuff right from Walmart in a nice little bag for next to nothing, place some in a Ziploc bag and store it with the rest of my fire starter stuff.
For me on my last one I used a old piece of flint and knife with a Pet Ball (what Maverick mentioned using cotton ball and Vaseline...I have about 3-4 in a small Ziploc snack bag tucked in my EDC. I used this flame to light the gas grill and then completed my exercise with another fire starting exercise. After I did this with three different types of fire starters...I count the training complete and mark it on my excel sheet. I do this with my son too, daughter and wife less often, but they still know how to do it.
As funny as this sounds, I never traveled out to the "Back 40" and still got some training in. Same goes for rappelling...I don't travel to the mountains which are several hours away, I head to a small rural town about 30 minutes away and ask an old friend who is the local cooperative grainy operator if I can use the side of the grainy to rappel off. Its a 90 degree drop, can't think of anything more challenging, other than a rock face that is more than 90 degrees, but those are few and far between.
Maybe that is something I need to do is do a PDF on training guide using local stuff. Well another thread for another day.
As the "Seven Dwarf would say"..."Hi HO, its off to work we go!"