Finland Travel News

The decorations give the City of Helsinki's Winter Garden a glow that creates a real Christmas atmosphere, both indoors and outdoors.

A criminal gang with involvement in trafficking people was rounded up in Birchis, in Romania.

In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet.

The story of Santa Claus waiting until children fall asleep to travel down through their chimney with presents on Christmas Eve first entered American culture in the 19th century.

The British budget airline EasyJet announced on Tuesday that it woulde be opening up two new routes from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

Helsinki - Santa Claus on Tuesday promised children that he would travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic.

The Finnish airline Finnair does not yet know exactly how many passengers it has had to lodge in hotels in Finland and abroad because of the ongoing pilotsa strike.

The Finnish Border Guard is worried about a recent increase in asylum seekers arriving in Finland on flights from Turkey.

ROYLE Family star Ricky Tomlinson aims to make the record books as the oldest festive UK chart-topper. A THIRD of girls aged nine to 15 are more concerned with how they look than doing well at school.

A strike by 800 pilots of the Finnish airline Finnair, which began at midnight, has led to the cancellation of over 200 flights on Monday, and is affecting the travel plans of tens of thousands passengers so far.

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With two stunning cakes for one route, it is a tough choice not to make them cakes of the week, but anna.aero compensates by awarding airBaltic's service from Riga via Tallinn to Lappeenranta in South Karelia, Finland the even more prestigious Route of the Week recognition.

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.