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last update:Jun112021October 16, 2013June 11, 2021Go to commentsby Santiago H

World’s top 5 strangest and weirdest saunas

The sauna is a place for relaxation in Finland and abroad. And it is one of everybody’s favorite parts of traveling to Finland (myself included). Saunas really are something that stretches outside of the country, as evidenced by the fact that sauna is the only Finnish word that has been widely adopted by other languages. Not long ago we saw the 3 types of Finnish…

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last update:Aug212013August 21, 2013August 21, 20131 Commentby Santiago H

My first days as an Erasmus in Finland (I)

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This is the first of what will be a series of posts on how I felt when moving to Finland from Spain. I was 21 years old then, and although I’d traveled through Europe with some friends before, I wasn’t confident with my English skills. I also never really lived by my own: in Spain the norm – unless you live in a small village…

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last update:May202025July 20, 2013May 20, 2025Go to commentsby Santiago H

Big in Finland is now in English

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It has been a long journey. It started when I moved to Finland around 8 years ago, in 2005. Since then, the original Big in Finland in Spanish has grown bigger than any blog or website about any Nordic country in Spanish language, and probably bigger than just the blogs, reaching the popularity of some official pages. The origin of Big in Finland The original…

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