We already talked about chef Gordon Ramsay trying Finnish food for the first time. I already said in that post that they should have given him some reindeer meat to try. Dishes with this kind of meat have always been my favorites of the Finnish cuisine. A reindeer dish. It looks amazing. Source (CC: by) And that’s what they have done this time: Ramsay went…
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Traveling by train has its charm. In the era between traveling by horse and by plane, trains dominated the transport of people and goods (they still do, of course, but mainly for short routes). There are some trains that stick in the collective imagination. For instance the Orient Express, that makes the link between Paris and Istanbul; The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, whose fictionalized version is…
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“I want to see the northern lights”. Been there, said that. But is it really that straightforward, even in Finland? Hardly. We’ve dug through the info and numbers, and hereby present the best places to see the Northern Lights in Finland and Lapland. The topic isn’t a light one for lots of people; it’s an important question since it can be the crowning event for…
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Pyryttää and tuiskuttaa are both verbs and mean snowing.
I am American, but I live in Estonia, and I agree with you: Estonia is solidly Nordic. I tell everyone…
the picture of a tar "candy bar" is actaully a box of tar candies
Not true. These human figures have teeth, which are actually dentures, that Rönkkönen got from a local dentist and later…
"for no particular reason" yea, sure