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Architecture Tampere
9 Reviews You won't find any masterpieces of architecture in the centre of Tampere. I would call it nice but rather dull. The cobbled main street Hameenkatu didn't impress me at all. In the picture the theatre...
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Tampere Churches Tampere
7 Reviews Aleksanteri Church is situated near the Stockmann department store. It's called the New Church because it was originally built to replace the Old Church which was the most important place of worship...
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The Streets of Tampere Tampere
6 Reviews I was told that this was the area for wealthy locals. As you can see there are no block apartment buildings, everything is compact and nice, behind the buldings is a pine forest, one can't hear the...
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Tampere in brief Tampere
5 Reviews In the late afternoon I started to stroll down Hämeenpuisto and just generally walking around the area. Walking past Hämeenpuisto to the Pyynikin Kirkkopuisto, which is part garden, part cemetery. In...
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We Finns like technology (remember we have Nokia!) and electronic machines and Internet. E-mail and the home pages of World Wide Web have become extremely popular. More and more homes, schools, workplaces, and public libraries have access to the Internet.Virtual Finland in the web: http://virtual.finland.fi/ (English, Francais, Deutch, Espanol, Russian)Travel in Finland: http://www.travel.fi/ (English and Finnish)
The climate is severe; there is scarcely any spring or autumn, but there are nine months of winter in the year... The people... live to a good old age when they do not undermine their constitutions by the abuse of strong drink...-- Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII (1731)Finnish climate is terrible. There's too much dark days, too much cold days, too much rainy days... The summer is so short. All we can do is to dream about summer in those dark and long months.In the summer-time Finland is one of the beautiful places on earth but the summer-time ends too soon. The darkness of autumn and winter can be considered one of the main reasons for the reserved and melancholic approach of Finns. Darkness has also been blamed for our high suicide rates.In the Lapland there's the total kaamos. The Kaamos means a dark time of year when it is light only a few hours of the day.
If you're flying to Finland, be sure you get the window seat!I've never seen anything like the landscape we viewed on approaching Finland from the UK. Flying across the south west coast was amazing - you'll see hundreds and hundreds of tiny islands, uninhabited except for the animals hiding in the immense forests.Remember to have your camera to hand -you won't want to miss this photo opportunity!
- also known in anglo-saxon language areas as leaf-peeping (who has invented this very suspect expression?) - what an amusing word...Anyway, from mid-Septembre to mid Octobre leaves change their colours before being torn down by the windy autumn storms. The best time for spotting this magnificent spectacle is obviously just around the change from Septembre to Octobre. This phenomenon is at its best in Lapland during that time, but you can experience it all over the country. Just note that Lapland is famous for its RUSKA - it has developed an actual tourist season of its own! Don't just stare at the leaves hanging from the trees, have a look at the shiny carpet-like lawns and moores - they develope this same kind of metamorphosis....
Sooner or later after arriving in Finland you will discover the most famous finnish family- the moomins written by Tove Janson in swedish.After that you will continue to collect every item of them- bed duvet, ear rings, postcards plus stamps, sweets, cookies...So, let me present to you my favourite character of the Moomin family: the little myy in english, pikku myy in finnish or lilla my in swedish.She´s small, angry, naughty and says always what she thinks, but you have to like her.
Winter time in Finland is a great opportunity to see Northern Lights at the sky. The northern you are, the bigger the chance to see them, but it is not a mandtory to be in north. If the sky is clear and you are enough far away from the city lights, you might see them even in Helsinki.Most people think that the temperature has something to do with them. It is not true, you can see them even in warm weather. Only thing you need is lack of light, that is why it is more likely to reach them at winter. And more colder the clearer the sky ususally is. But I saw a wonderful lights last August in Oulu while walking home from bar. It was very warm, I was wearing a skirt and flip flops. But sky was already dark at the midnight.Check out here the forecast for Nothern Lights:http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Ethu/Aurora/forecast.html
The official currency in Finland is Euro. Those who love to collect the different Euro coins will come accross a big problem: you won't get one or two Cent coins. All prices end with "0" or "5". The Finnish bank minted small amount of them for collectors, but they are not in use!! I had to buy some of these rarely coins in a souvenir shop.
Never counted them but there must be over 100,000 lakes in Finland. Most of them are very clean and you could fish or row on them. It is also possible to swim in them but before you jump into one test the water temperature with your finger or toe. Some are hardly warmer then 5°C (40°F)!
Norhtern lights, or Aurora Borealis as the scientific name, is a light effect caused by solar particles being caught by the magnetic field of the Earth. Striking the upper atmosphere their energy cause a visible light. Depending on its lenghtwave the light apperas is different color. this phenomenon can only be seen in the polar regions because of the minimum of the magnetic field.In Finland it was most of time overcast or mostly cloudy and I couldn't see the Northern Light. But in Germany I have seen it several times.hope you could understand - not easy to explain in a foreign language
Koivikko is the finnish word for birch forest. Birchs are pionier plants that are claimless to ground and climate. In Finland, especially in the north you find a lot of this trees indicating the bad value of the ground and the rough climate. I was here in late August and could see the different climatic types of Finland. In the south the birchs had green leaves and the more north I went the more yellow leaves they had. In the very north hardly a birch had leaves on their bough.So if you drive from south to north just take a look at their leave colours - very interesting!
Hotel Kamp Helsinki
16 Reviews and 332 Opinions Located on Pohjoisesplanadi, in the heart of Helsinki, Hotel Kämp is one of the city's most...
Sokos Hotel Ilves Tampere
5 Reviews and 59 Opinions I stayed at Sokos Hotel Ilves for one night in July 2011 and had a very pleasant stay in this 4 star...
Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel Turku Turku
4 Reviews and 125 Opinions We had never stayed in Radison hotels before, because they are allways more expensive than any other...
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Q: Right - here's the brief. I've got a maximum of three days, and am going to pick up a car from either Helsinki or Tampere....
A: go to the koli national park. thats not too far so you can get to see something in 3 days, and its one of the most beautiful landscapes in finland.
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