Finland Where to sleep in Helsinki: best neighborhoods to stay Founded in 1550 by Gustave Vasa, king of Sweden, the city of Helsinki is now populated by almost 650.000 inhabitants. Modern port metropolis, it is located in southern Finland. The city of Helsinki is home to over 130 different nationalities and is made up of an […]
Finland White nights in the north, when to go there? White nights in the north, when to go there? . White nights or the midnight sun is a natural phenomenon determined by the inclination of the earth's axis which, with respect to the exposure of the sun, during the solstices […]
Finland Experience a great adventure with sled dogs in Lapland When I was a little girl, one of the books that made me dream the most was “The Call of the Forest”. The book, one of the most famous of the writer Jack London, tells the story of Buck, a beautiful dog who after being kidnapped is taken to the Klondike during […]
Finland Everything I Didn't Know About the Northern Lights For many years now I had hoped to one day be able to organize a trip to attend the show of thenorthern Lights. So when last year Giulia she proposed to me to go hunting, I caught the ball and immediately said yes without thinking twice. In early December we left […]
Finland Lapland Many people want to see the Northern Lights at least once in their life and for this reason they choose Finland as their travel or holiday destination. The best place to see the beautiful light drapes is in Lapland. In the north, between November and March, the […]
Finland Traveling by train to discover Lapland The train, with its ease of time and its discomforts of space, puts on the disused curiosity for details, refines the attention for what is around, for what flows out of the window. Tiziano Terzani Giulia and I at Stockholm Arlanda station: despite the tiredness […]
Finland Public sauna in Helsinki: face to face with Finnish culture During my week in Helsinki I got to try a real public sauna. As you well know, the sauna culture is deeply rooted in Finnish customs and most people have a private or semi-private sauna. There are only 3 public saunas left in Helsinki, including the one I went […]