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last update:Aug072019November 26, 2018August 7, 2019Go to commentsby Santiago H

Kaamos: the Polar Night in Finland

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24 hours of darkness. Something that is impossible to imagine for most people in the world. But it happens every year in Finland, and people that go traveling to Finland during the winter will experience it. I never really had to face Kaamos, the Polar Night of Finland, but I did have to face lots of nighttime per day, which was very unusual for me….

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last update:Oct012020January 21, 2016October 1, 2020Go to commentsby Santiago H

The “Restaurant day” in Finland – Ravintolapäivä

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Silvio Berlusconi became persona non grata for the Finnish people for saying that, after the United Kingdom, Finland was the place with the worst food in Europe. Finns showed their pride and their sisu and wanted to prove that you can eat very well in this Nordic Country. In this spirit, the Finnish-born Restaurant Day was created. All the photos in this post belong to…

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last update:Aug082019August 12, 2015August 8, 2019Go to commentsby Santiago H

When do seasons begin and end in Finland?

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Last Juhannus (the midsummer in Finland, where bonfires are lit and people enjoy a long weekend in a cottage near the water, drinking spirits and eating grilled goods such as makkara – Finnish sausages) signaled – as every year – the weekend before the official beginning of summer on June 21st. But is it really summer in Finland already? Not if we look at the…

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last update:Aug142019July 2, 2014August 14, 20192 Commentsby Santiago H

Wife Carrying World Championship in Finland

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“Someone’s got to invent it, and it was the Finns”. A sentence that is maybe being said too often, regarding the number of eccentric summer championships that happen in Finland (which I think is one of the best things of the Finnish summer). We talk today about the Wife Carrying World Championship in Finland. Finland had a group of runners called “The Flying Finns”, that…

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