The Finns themselves say that they can seem cold, aloof to visitors. In public, for example, their custom is to stay in their own groups. At a restaurant or the very popular buffet lunches (lounas),…
For a traveler, there is never enough time. Sure, you can see "the highlights" of a city in a few days, of a country in a week or so. But, in most places, the longer…
For kilometer after kilometer, the landscape always seems the same. Pine trees and lakes. Lakes and pine trees. Driving the eastern side of the country - Lakeland in the south, Lapland above the Arctic Circle…