Make the most of Moominworld: best times to visit, what to pack, where to eat, and insider tips for families with kids. For several summers now, we’ve been promising the kids that we’d visit Moominworld during our trips to Finland. We’ve already been a few times with out older daughter, but now our youngest is…
Next our road trip in Finland brought us to Turku where we tested a Turku Food Walk cards. We had driven from my hometown Kokkola to Heinävesi, and visited the Valamo Monastery, and from there to a summer cottage in Rääkkylä. We saw Nightwish exhibition at Kitee, travelled to Vyborg, Russia via Saimaa canal, and…
Next our road trip in Finland brought us to Turku. We drove from my hometown, Kokkola to Heinävesi and visited the Valamo Monastery, and from there to a summer cottage in Rääkkylä. We saw the Nightwish exhibition in Kitee, travelled to Vyborg, Russia via the Saimaa Canal, and spent a day in Porvoo. It was…
Temppeliaukio Church in Helsinki is built inside the bedrock and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city. We visited the church and here is our review. We spend all our summers in Finland and tour around the country as much as we can. One of the things we like to do…
Rock’n Rose Room in Radisson Blu Aleksanteri must be one of the most unique hotel suites in Helsinki. We stayed there and this is how it went. *We use ads so we can pay for our travels and continue to bring you free travel advice. We also use affiliate links.If you make a purchase through them, we…
We sailed to Russia from Finland through the Saimaa Canal. It was easy and fun, and visiting Vyborg was very interesting. This it went. On our summer holiday this year took us to Eastern Finland to meet our friends, and we decided to do a day cruise on the Saimaa Canal to Vyborg, Russia together…
We have been spending time in my hometown of Kokkola in Finland. While we were there, we also visited Luoto, a nearby tiny municipality, to see a place called Tyynelän Tonttula (Tyynelä Elves). It is a fun place for a quick stop if you are passing by the area, or spending time either in Kokkola or…
After the storm on Midsummer weekend, on Sunday morning the sky was bright blue and the sun was warming up the day. We decided that it would be a perfect summer day to spend at sea, and go visit the Island of Tankar which is on the Gulf of Bothnia by my hometown Kokkola. I…
After many years, we are back in Finland for Midsummer celebrations and the nightless night. The weather wasn’t co-operating with us in the beginning, but we were jet lagged anyway, so we were OK with that. Finally the winds and the rain stopped on Saturday, so we headed out to meet some of our friends…
In 2011 I moved to the USA and married an american man. Already before that, and after, he had done many trips to Finland, my home country. We have been travelling around the country at different times of the year. We have seen new places and returned to some that we liked the most. We…
I am a small town girl who grew up in Scandinavia, Finland. Most of my life I lived in Kokkola, which has about 47 000 residents. Many towns in Finland have so called “old towns” with their wooden houses and little alleys. So does Kokkola. Kokkola’s old town is called Neristan and it is the…