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Travel Talk: The Unique and Spectacular Digital Display at Helsinki Airport

Ptrikha_2 @ptrikha_2 (49766) • India 22 Feb

Continued from : https://www.mylot.com/post/3642568/travel-talk-spendingtime-at-helsinki-airport-enroute-denmark Airports are for catching flights. Arriving or Departing to or from a place. May be a couple of expensive shops to...

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Travel Talk: SpendingTime at Helsinki Airport enroute Denmark

Ptrikha_2 @ptrikha_2 (49766) • India 21 Feb

Continued from : https://www.mylot.com/post/3642447/travel-talk-approaching-helsinki-airport-enroute-denmark spent one hour extra during our stopover at Helsinki Airport (technically named Helsinki-Vantaa) It is common for...

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Santa Claus Village

Always smiling @allknowing (153529) • India 16 Jul

Santa Claus village is situated in Lapland close to Finland It is loaded with conifers and lots of snow It is a tourist attraction specially around Christmas. There are several man made creations for tourisits to enjoy One...

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Sizu (2022) movie review

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 15 Jan 24

My Rating **** Genre – War/Action Run Time – 91 minutes Certificate – 18R Country – Finland /USA Awards 4 Wins and 4 nominations = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Best action film so far this year for me has to be Sisu, a...

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A new sport for you perhaps

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382240) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Sep 23

To each his own, I guess but I can’t imagine competing before thousands in a hobby-horse competition. The 10th Finnish Hobby Horse Championships were held in Seinäjoki, Finland back in June. Over 1,500 competitors from all over...

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Compartment No. 6 - a Finnish film

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382240) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Jul 22

For those of you who expressed interest, I thought I’d write about a couple of the films. One of the first we saw was ‘Compartment No. 6’, a Finnish film. Two strangers share a Russian train journey through the Arctic Circle and...

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Poem Sulphuric Water

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 May 21

Sulphuric Water Acid rain, killing the trees in Finland Needn’t bother me in England, I thought Until I felt raindrops burning my hand . Holes in my brolly told me I’d been caught In much worse than the average shower. Water of...

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Story Who Wants To Live Forever

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Mar 20

Story Who Wants To Live Forever? There was a man in England, by the name of Alan Philips. He assumed he would live forever. He could eat and drink al he wanted, barely exercised, and in living off the millions he inherited from...

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Terror by Sword

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (98033) • Daytona Beach, Florida 1 Oct 19

There was a time you would not hear too much about school violence in Europe and now suddenly it is also happening there. A student in Finland went into a classroom at a vocational high school with a sword. He stabbed a young...

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The Ytterbium Eastercon Convention 2019 Easter Sunday 21st April 2019 Moomins

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 26 Apr 19

This panel on the Moomins was presented by Ali Baker, Linnea Angelmark, Jukka Halme and Fran Dowd One of my favourite presentations of the whole convention. I mainly know of The Moomins from the TV cartoons. They are hippo...

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How to prevent forest fires the Donald Trump way

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 19 Nov 18

According to President Donald Trump, the way to stop forest fires spreading is to rake up all the fallen leaves, just like they do in Finland! Where on earth does he get these stupid ideas from? Does he really imagine that that's...

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Funny fact

Miia @GegeTheMechanic (1060) • Finland 24 Feb 17

I will share something about Finland shoe history today. You can see 2 pairs of shoes in that picture (from google) and originally the brown shoes (Reinot) were for men and red (Ainot) ones were for women. I heard it all started...

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Nobody told me Finland was so beautiful

Always smiling @allknowing (153529) • India 15 Feb 17

The travel bug bit me good and proper and I am happy that I did cover a bit of the world. In the course of my net surfing I came across a site that talks of Lapland, Finland. I regret I did not see it earlier as now I cannot...

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This man worked for the Finland, the Nazis and even for the US Special Forces!

Bon Sharaon @boneysharaon (177) 2 Jul 16

I just came across this amazing fact that a man worked for three different forces in his lifetime. His Finnish name was Lauri Torni while his American name was Larry Thorn. The photo is really his photo.

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Finnish Greetings in the best possible way

Inlemay @Inlemay (17712) • South Africa 3 Jun 16

This stamp has me totally excited. This week there were a few FIRST's for Me . . . receiving postcards from friends from around the world - I call them friends because its quite an effort to find a decent postcard, a beautiful...

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Have You Heard About Stress-Free Learning?

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 10 Mar 16

I had read an article about the education system in Finland today. It was totally different learning process for children. In this country, the teachers spend less time in classrooms as compared to conventional schools across the...

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One way flight then travel home overland

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 18 Dec 12

When I was 18 years old I bought a one way airline ticket from London in England to Helsinki in Finland. I worked as a children's nanny in Finland and taught the little girl how to speak English. When my placement ended I caught a...

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Uncircumcised Men Gets More Out Of It

almightybong @almightybong (186) • Philippines 5 Mar 12

This is a shocker. I heard about this when I was tuned in on the radio this morning. There was a study conducted somewhere in Finland regarding this subject. It was found out that uncircumcised men have more "quality" time during...

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Should i go to India or Finland?

pennywise25 @pennywise25 (321) • Mexico 5 Feb 12

Please, give me your best advice on this. The thing is that my son applied to go as an exchange student to Finland for one year sponsored by rotary International. He was accepted, however, they changed his original destination to...

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Where to watch Scandinavian ice hockey matches online?

iDivision @iDivision (1412) • Latvia 12 Jan 11

Friends, i am very interested to watch ice hockey matches from Sweden Elitserien and from Finland SM-liiga live on internet, but until this day i failed to find any webpage where to do it. Can anybody help out on this one?...