
The capital of Finland, Helsinki, has gained a number of new sights during the last few years that already have proved to be tourist attractions. Six years ago, we published a guidebook to Helsinki, but new sights … Read the story...
The capital of Finland, Helsinki, has gained a number of new sights during the last few years that already have proved to be tourist attractions. Six years ago, we published a guidebook to Helsinki, but new sights … Read the story...
As electric cars, vans and trucks are slowly but surely becoming more common in road transport, also air travel is facing a new era. Airplanes powered by batteries that can produce energy for short flights are expected in North Europe … Read the story...
An unexpected global phenomenon like a pandemic causes immeasurable losses to economies in every country, but it also opens doors to changes. As the number of travelers has decreased in 2020, hotels and many other travel related businesses … Read the story...
The summer of 2019 in Finland’s capital Helsinki was the first time when I thought that finally, overseas tourists have discovered the city. Tourist groups toured even in the new Oodi library, and happily camped … Read the story...
The Honest Tribe refers to people of Finland in Max Boyle’s travel book that explores the culture of this Nordic nation. The author visited a number of cities and villages in different parts of the scarcely populated country, crossed lakes, … Read the story...
When new libraries are designed, especially in large cities across the world it is remarkable how similar concepts are features in the design: large open spaces, areas where visitors can relax with or without books, cafes, music rooms, in other … Read the story...
The land of the Midnight Sun, long and cold winters, welfare states, high living standard, languages that no one outside Scandinavia can understand, plenty of space and few people. Sure, it is a definition of Scandinavia, but for travelers, the … Read the story...
In the northernmost Nordic countries – Finland, Norway and Sweden – both local people and overseas travelers can enjoy an ancient tradition known as the Everyman’s Rights. It means that you are free to roam and even stay a night … Read the story...
The northernmost region of Continental Europe, Lapland, is a vast wilderness area where the great outdoors invite people to hike, ski, fish, ride a mountainbike or simply just admire the scenery. Located north of the Arctic Circle, Lapland is also … Read the story...
The daylight period is short or even non-existent in Lapland during the weeks before and after the solstice, but it doesn’t mean that it is completely dark in winter in the Europe’s northernmost corner. Snow covers the ground in the … Read the story...
Stockholm is the capital and the most populous city of Sweden, but Gothenburg on the country’s West Coast features the largest annual book show of Scandinavia. Maybe it is simply because Denmark, Germany and Norway are not far away from … Read the story...
Maybe Finnish kitchen is not (yet) as renowned as the French or Thai kitchens that can be found in all major cities of the world, but Scandinavian tastes have been discovered by food lovers. Traditional Finnish meals were prepared from … Read the story...