Finland Travel News

Celebrating Christmas in Finland is fun, different and exciting. Finland is one of the countries which claims to be the home of Santa Claus.

It's amazing what a stretch of water can do . The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland .

Tallinn's Town Hall Square marks the heart of the medieval lower town. It's amazing what a stretch of water can do.

His handshake is firm, his gaze drills into your eyes. There is something military-like and yet slightly mischievous about Master Chef Sauli Kemppainen .

Quick: name five Finnish clean tech start-ups. You may have trouble with that onea in fact, you may have trouble naming any Finnish companies beyond Nokia.

In this World Wide Wrap: Underground data centre to heat Helsinki, UK grants A 50m to green research, and power and space costs to increase.

The decorations give the City of Helsinki's Winter Garden a glow that creates a real Christmas atmosphere, both indoors and outdoors.

A criminal gang with involvement in trafficking people was rounded up in Birchis, in Romania.

In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet.

The story of Santa Claus waiting until children fall asleep to travel down through their chimney with presents on Christmas Eve first entered American culture in the 19th century.

The British budget airline EasyJet announced on Tuesday that it woulde be opening up two new routes from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

Helsinki - Santa Claus on Tuesday promised children that he would travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic.

The Finnish airline Finnair does not yet know exactly how many passengers it has had to lodge in hotels in Finland and abroad because of the ongoing pilotsa strike.

The Finnish Border Guard is worried about a recent increase in asylum seekers arriving in Finland on flights from Turkey.

ROYLE Family star Ricky Tomlinson aims to make the record books as the oldest festive UK chart-topper. A THIRD of girls aged nine to 15 are more concerned with how they look than doing well at school.

A strike by 800 pilots of the Finnish airline Finnair, which began at midnight, has led to the cancellation of over 200 flights on Monday, and is affecting the travel plans of tens of thousands passengers so far.

Normally your frequent flyer miles can be redeemed for air travel, car rental, hotel stays or merchandise.

With two stunning cakes for one route, it is a tough choice not to make them cakes of the week, but anna.aero compensates by awarding airBaltic's service from Riga via Tallinn to Lappeenranta in South Karelia, Finland the even more prestigious Route of the Week recognition.

Rovaniemi , in northern Finland, is a town like no other. For a start, it has fewer people than reindeer.

If you were asked to rapidly associate geographies with colour youa TMd probably say the Sahara is brown, the Amazon rainforest is green, the Andamans are blue and the Arctic Circle is a ' white.