Finland Travel News

Rovaniemi , in northern Finland, is a town like no other. For a start, it has fewer people than reindeer.

If you were asked to rapidly associate geographies with colour youa TMd probably say the Sahara is brown, the Amazon rainforest is green, the Andamans are blue and the Arctic Circle is a ' white.

Christmas is coming and I want to see Santa To meet the genial man in red, complete with the full works of reindeer, jingling sleigh, enticing parcels and much snow, head to northern Scandinavia.

I'm currently over in Finland, waiting to travel back after the OUGF Autumn Conference in Helsinki.

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The popular phenomenon of "night weddings" without prior booking launched at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St.

Main Swedish physiologist born October 30, 1900, Helsinki, Finland died March 12, 1991, Stockholm, Sweden Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who was a corecipient of the 1967 for Physiology or Medicine for his analysis of the internal electrical changes that take place when the eye is exposed to light.

Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas departs a shipyard Friday in Finland. The largest passenger vessel ever built - with 2,700 cabins and 2,100 crew members - it is nearly 40 percent larger than the industry's next-biggest ship.

The following is a press release from the Riga International Airport: As of 26 October, when the winter flight schedule enters into force, 562 regular flights to 61 direct destinations will be available at RIGA International Airport.

The language skills of Morocco's street kids have always been impressive. It is not unusual for them to have few words of greeting in almost any language you can imagine.

Finnish anthropologist Yrjo von Gronhagen met German SS leader Heinrich Himmler in 1937 at Himmler's home, along with German music researcher Fritz Bose .

We would like to spend 10-12 days visiting the Nordic countries in June next year.

I am somewhat addicted to the Internet , and I like visiting Finland. But the Finnish government's declaration that access to broadband Internet is a legal right waves a red flag in front of many people, including me.

According to the Finnish Border Guard, movements on the eastern frontier have this year been exceptionally persistent.

North American kids are told lies about Santa Claus. For example, they are told he lives at the North Pole with his elves and reindeer.

The Bolsheviks may have tried to wipe history's slate clean in 1917 but, decades after the revolution, it seems that Tsar Peter the Great had the right idea.

Helsinki, a fascinating city with its very own archipelago, is the capital city of Finland.

Go on, have a hit! A bottle of Thai whisky is circulating in the bus, there is a sing-song in progress, and bottles of beer flow over.

Private alcohol imports by Finns travelling abroad have been on the rise this year.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.