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Fishing under ice
A video made by some really creative Finnish guys. Filmed in the lake Saarijärvi in Vaala, Finland
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Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki Times and SixDegrees
As a foreigner in Finland, I don’t talk fluently Finnish, so I appreciate a lot every time I can grab some news and information in English about Finland. Let’s explore some options: One of the best...
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Frozen Sea in Finland
Some photos of January 2013, having a walk in front of Eira-Kaivopuisto area in Helsinki. View Larger Map
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Finland - Land of the Midnight Sun
New video promoting Finland and its endless Summer nights under the Midnight Sun. More info in visitfinland.com or finland.fi. Don’t think about the mosquitos, just enjoy the music and relax with the...
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Do people eat reindeer meat in Finland?
Yes, but rarely. Finns don’t eat normally reindeer meat, although I see it constantly being promoted to tourists. The typical reindeer dish from Lapland is poronkäristys . This capture is from Helsinki...
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Giant map of Spain shown at Kamppi, Helsinki
Last weekend I found this in Kamppi Square: a 250 square meter giant interactive map of Spain. I had the chance to talk with some Spanish people from the Spanish Tourist office in Helsinki, (but not...
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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
Interesting article in BBC Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
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Ruisleipä - Rye bread
There are some regional variations of traditional dark Finnish bread across the country, but the concept is the same - fibre-rich, nutritious, low-fat baking, with a sour dough base. This is why the...
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Helsinki - Horizon 2030
This is a video from the City Planning Department of the City of Helsinki, where you can see the really ambitious projects that are planned to expand the city. Some of these projects already started. A...
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Olive Oil in Finland
If you are in Finland and you want olive oil, in almost every supermarket you will find a wide range of products. Normally from Italy and Greece. But I recommend you this one: ArteOliva, from Córdoba...
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Scam! Rhofox Abogados Lawyers
Warning. This type of scam is typical to receive by email. But I was surprised to receive this by traditional post (to my Finnish address). The letter is from Rhofox Abogados (Toby Fellman) and he...
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The New Tram for Helsinki
By 2018, there will be 40 of these new trams in Helsinki. During 2013 and 2014 they are just testing two of them. I already saw it in the city with the sentence “Tässä menee uusi spora” (Here it comes...
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San Fermín and the bulls
Yesterday 6th of July has started the festival of San Fermin, in Pamplona, in the north of Spain. Most popular event in this festival is the running of the bulls “los encierros” in the morning at 8,...
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Sustainable forest management in Finland
Yesterday I fund the article “Most sustainable forest of the world” in El País (main newspaper in Spain), where they talk mainly about 3 topics: 1. Forest in Finland: 85% of Finland is forest (23...
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Benchmarking IT 2009 by The Economist
More interesting points of the research, who compares 66 countries in the IT industry field. With economic global recession even bigger IT firms are cutting back investments in R&DUSA remains the...
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Andalusia in 1 minute
I just received a big package from my parents with lots of stuff: olives, Spanish ham, etc… and talking with them by phone told me about a recent TV ad about Andalusia, the south-part of Spain where I...
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1 & 2 Finnish Euro-cent coins
2 years ago, we were in Barcelona for a touristic visit. A couple of days visiting the typical highlights: Sagrada Familia, Ramblas, shops in Avenida Diagonal, Raval, Gaudí and finally also Montjuic....
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Helsinki 200
The county governor of the provinces of Uusimaa and Häme, the perpetually inventive Gustaf Fredrik Stjernvall, presents the idea that Helsinki should become the capital. On 25 October 1810 Stjernvall...
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