Finnish Christmas spirit brightens Helsinki streets for holiday season
As the winter days grow shorter in Helsinki, the city bursts into light, and the Christmas season brings warmth, music and thousands of twinkling bulbs.
Calm and harmony: A relaxing sauna continues to be a Finnish Christmas tradition
A steaming hot sauna, softly illuminated and filled with the fragrant aroma of birch leaves, is a centuries-old Finnish tradition intended to bring calmness, harmony and peace before the start of Christmas celebrations.
Finland’s heavy-metal stars reveal their lighter side at Christmas
Getting together with friends and family during the Christmas season is always special, and heavy metal musicians are no exception – even if, on stage, they are bad boys and girls all year long.
Christmas casseroles, Christmas bread, Christmas pastries, Christmas cookies, Christmas ham, Christmas porridge: This article provides recipes for all the good old traditional Finnish holiday fare.
