Category: Finnish traditions

last update:Oct092023June 16, 2020October 9, 2023Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Children eat for free in Helsinki in the summer

Posted in Events in Finland, Finnish food, Finnish traditions

Helsinki. Summer. The playgrounds are overflowing with children and around noon someone starts serving free food to them. Every day. Fiction? No, Finland. A park in Helsinki. Source (CC: by) The children eat for free in Helsinki during the summer Every child under 16 years old can eat for free in the capital of Finland at any of the more than 50 designated points –…

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last update:Mar242020March 25, 2020March 24, 2020Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Can sauna help against the Coronavirus?

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Finland is sauna and sauna is Finland. It is the only Finnish word that has been incorporated into other languages (it was not, of course, going to be the longest word in the world – lentokonesuihku-turbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoal-iupseerioppilas -, which is also Finnish). The positive effects of the Finnish sauna (the 90-something degree Celsius sauna, not lower temperature saunas or Turkish baths) are well known: they help…

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last update:Sep072023December 23, 2019September 7, 2023Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Letters from Santa Claus: he starts charging in Finland

Posted in Finland Tourism, Finnish traditions, Lapland

Some time ago we wrote a post about how to send letters to Santa Claus and his address in the Finnish Lapland. And we commented that one of the great things about that system was that Santa himself responded to you and it was free. Unfortunately, Santa Claus has begun to charge for writing back. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SnqVzIYJf/?utm_source=ig_embed Lapland: the place where Santa Claus lives Santa Claus…

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last update:Jun102021November 7, 2018June 10, 2021Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Public Saunas in Helsinki (and Finland’s oldest)

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If you go to Finland I’m pretty sure you’d like to go to a real Finnish sauna. If you never visited one we encourage you to try this Finnish tradition – and this enjoyment – because, if there is a word in the Finnish language that has consistently made it abroad and you already know, it’d be “sauna”. Imagine the cultural significance behind this achievement….

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