{"id":17483,"date":"2010-09-22T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/?p=17483"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T18:45:44","slug":"holidays-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/2010\/09\/holidays-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took a trip to Finland<\/strong> this summer. Motor-home campers have only nicest things to say about Scandinavian countries. We gathered as much information as we could and hit the road in July. We traveled with motor-home through eastern European countries to Tallinn and from there with ferry to Helsinki.<\/p>\n

Lakes … lots of lakes and one prettier than the other.<\/p>\n

\"Finska<\/a><\/p>\n

Huge ferry that can house up to 450 cars.<\/p>\n

\"Trajekt\/Ferry:<\/a><\/p>\n

Typical sight in Finland: never-ending grain fields.<\/p>\n

\"Finska<\/a><\/p>\n

Finland: land of thousands of lakes.<\/p>\n

\"Finska<\/a><\/p>\n

Wide spread forests – pines, birch trees and you can find lots of\u00a0 blueberries and chanterelles in there too.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\"Finski<\/a><\/p>\n

The farthest point of our trip was Vaasa <\/strong>city –<\/strong> university town located on the western coast of Gulf of Bothnia.<\/p>\n

\"Vaasa\"<\/a>
Vaasa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lahti<\/strong> – ski jump center.<\/p>\n

\"Lahti\"<\/a>
Lahti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Helsinki<\/strong> – largest city and capital with over a half a million of inhabitants.<\/p>\n

\"Helsinki\"<\/a>
Helsinki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the things that impressed us the most:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– nice weather: lots of sunshine and just a little bit of rain with pleasant day temperatures between 20 and 24\u00b0 C.<\/p>\n

– very long days: the sun has gone down at 11 pm, and rose at 3 am. You totally lose the felling when are you suppose to go to bed.<\/p>\n

– almost no mosquitoes which are almost a legend in traveler’s circuits (you can supposedly kill 60 of them with one swing).<\/p>\n

– extreme orderliness and serenity everywhere at anytime.<\/p>\n

– no rush, no shopping frenzy ….<\/p>\n

– half empty shopping centers, frugality at every corner.<\/p>\n

– great and not overly expensive food, expensive beer and even more expensive vine. No wonder Tallinn’s main selling item is cheep beer and alcohol in general.<\/p>\n

– a huge selection of candy (the kind you have to weight).<\/p>\n

– turning on the air conditioning at 18\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

– no unnecessary advertising and billboards.<\/p>\n

– only the most necessary traffic signs can be found and lots of equivalent road crossings.<\/p>\n

– they positioned stationary radars at every town entrance, so you don’t see have many police patrols with radars.<\/p>\n

– wide roads that are comfortable to travel on even-though they only have approximately 600 km of highways.<\/p>\n

– at winter they don’t throw salt on the streets and street walks. They use sand instead which they remove when spring comes and use it elsewhere.<\/p>\n

– they travel a lot with train in the winter time, and they drive cars on frozen lakes.<\/p>\n

– snow that falls in November stays there until April.<\/p>\n

Those are the facts that stuck with me. There’s a lot more of them and our readers from Finland are welcomed to correct and add to them. <\/p>\n

We traveled 5.666 km from Slovenia to Finland and back. We traveled with motor-home which proved to be one of the best ways to travel out there.<\/p>\n

\"Avtodom,<\/a><\/p>\n

If you plan to travel to Scandinavia countries, I recommend you visit Finland too. How do you know when the trip was good? When you come home and want to immediately go back to visit the same place again. <\/p>\n

Soon, I’ll write post about our trip through eastern European countries to Finland and the goodies I brought home with me … cosmetics of course. <\/p>\n

Good luck, wherever you go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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