Helsinki

Cheap Freight Service After A Trip To Finland

November 3, 2011

Why You Need a Cheap Freight Service If you are anything like me or many travellers a cheap freight service is a must.After a short travel Finland vacation you will no doubt find that souvenirs,presents and trophies have accumulated.Many folks find interesting treasures on their travels.As a British Expat myself,I have often had to [...]

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Esplanade Park Helsinki,Tranquility in a City

October 31, 2011

Between two streets, Northern Esplanade and Southern Esplanade is a grand tree-lined park named Esplanade park and boulevard.A plentiful assortment of coffee houses,design shops,restaurants can be found in the surrounding area Why Esplanade Park Works Esplanade Park in the centre of Helsinki consists of two active streets – Northern and Southern Esplanade – and a [...]

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Helsinki Botanical Gardens,In Finnish Winter

October 3, 2011

Helsinki Botanical Gardens,Tropics in The Snow Visiting Helsinki on your travel Finland trip in the depths of Finnish winter can show a sight that is in stark contrast to prevailing weather conditions.The Kaisaniemi Botanical Gardens is just such a place.Where outside it may be bitter cold and the ground deep in snow,the botanical gardens offer a quiet sweet-smelling [...]

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Finnish Coffee A True Love

August 10, 2011

Finnish Coffee To Be Savored Coffee is the world’s third most favourite drink, but in Finland, it is most certainly at the top of the list. The Finnish is the world’s most voracious consumers of this aromatic brew with the per-capita consumption standing at an astonishing ten and a half kilograms of roasted coffee and [...]

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Veikko Hursti,Humanitarian Feeding The Homeless And Needy

July 12, 2011

Veikko Hursti,Life of a Humanitarian Many remember Veikko Hursti as a pure humanitarian who never put himself first by any means and while he never strayed far from his homeland, he became widely known all over because of the significant acts of charity that he carried out time after time. Hursti passed away on May 10 of 2005 [...]

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Helsinki Homeless People Look For Dwellings

July 10, 2011

Life Being One Of The Homeless People Homeless Figures in Finland were 18.000 in 1987, which does not at first appear high.However being one of the Homeless people is no fun.Many countries experience the same situation with housing for homeless people.Being homeless in Finland through the bitter cold winters is just one obstacle to [...]

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Watch Finland Women Singers Live

July 1, 2011

Famous Finland Women Singers While Finland is well known for it’s beautiful landscape and old fashioned traditional culture, there is another cultural attraction that many travellers are not fully aware of. That particular cultural attraction just happens to be music. Music of all types is very popular in Finland, and from it has come [...]

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Marimekko Design,A World Known Fabric Pattern

June 26, 2011

Marimekko Design,The Beginnings It’s probably one of the most recognised fabric designs in the world. Huge splashy poppies in a variety of colours adorning umbrellas, bags, tea trays and bedding. And yet Unikko, from the Finnish design company Marimekko Design, only came about when a designer dared to defy her boss. Armi Ratia, the creative [...]

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Catch Sporting History at Helsinki Olympic Stadium

June 20, 2011

Helsinki Olympic Stadium The Helsinki Olympic Stadium is one of the biggest stadiums in Finland and is remembered for holding the Olympics events in the 1950s. At present Helsinki Olympic Stadium hosts various concerts and sports events. Visitors can enter the tower of Helsinki Olympic Stadium, which is open from 9 AM to 8 [...]

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The Finnish Summer And Events

June 5, 2011

The Finnish Summer Culture Finland is one of those countries that most of us have heard of maybe once or twice in our lives. Maybe this would be more so if you paid close attention in your geography or world history classes in school. While most of our attention is on countries like the USA, the Middle [...]

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Finland Economy Is Not All Forestry

May 26, 2011

The Finland Economy Finland is one of those countries left off of most of our mental maps. Unless you paid attention to that short chapter in your World Geography class or were a Geography major in University, then you probably don’t know much about it in terms of its industrial background or if it even has [...]

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