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last update:Mar042024December 12, 2023March 4, 202410 Commentsby Santiago H

A letter to Santa Claus: how to do it and his address

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When you want to write a letter to Santa Claus, you have to take into account that he is a busy man. We all know he lives in Lapland, specifically in Rovaniemi, where you can go and visit him in his office. Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus in their Lapland house. Source (CC: by) If Lapland is too far away for you this year, but…

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last update:Mar042024June 25, 2023March 4, 202434 Commentsby Santiago H

No shoes at home in Finland

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Not only Japanese people remove their shoes when they walk into a home: Finnish people do so too. To everyone who isn’t used to remove their shoes at the entrances of the houses – like me – this is quite shocking. I went to Finland at the end of a summer, and it was then when I learned about this tradition. I must admit that…

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last update:Feb182024June 16, 2020February 18, 2024Go to commentsby Santiago H

Children eat for free in Helsinki in the summer

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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 to commentsby 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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