Music and art education in Finland
Finding suitable hobbies for your children when living in Finland is important for your family’s overall well-being. In this blog we talk about the Finnish art and music education as an option.
Category: Playing in Finland
Information and tips about fun stuff in Finland.
Finland – the promised land of summer events
Now that it’s July and a third of Finland is on vacation, the country is full of events of all kinds. Here are some of them. Just pick the one(s) you like!
Where to organize your child’s b-day party in Finland?
Organizing a child’s birthday party in Finland? Here is a list of locations where you can organize your child’s birthday party in Finland. Use one of the locations in the list or use it as an inspiration.
Pesäpallo, the Finnish baseball
Pesäpallo, the Finnish name for Finnish baseball, is very popular game in Finland. The important East-West baseball game is played July 5-7, 2019.
Nobody at the office? – vacation days in Finland
The Finnish labor laws guarantee those working in Finland a good number of vacation days. Most of those are taken during the summer and in July in particular. If you are working in Finland, better get used to work stopping for a whole month at least during the summer.
Midsummer in Finland: the not-so-Christian holiday
Midsummer is an ancient celebration of fertility and good harvest. The celebration has had a Christian association from the Middle Ages, but the way Finns celebrate Midsummer one could never tell there’s anything Christian about the holiday at all!
Summer houses in Finland lack indoor plumbing but don’t panic
Have you been invited to a Finnish summer house that doesn’t have indoor plumbing? Don’t panic, it isn’t really not that bad and here we’ll tell you why.
Know your everyman’s rights
In this blog post we explain what everyman’s rights means: what those allow you to do and what they don’t allow you to do.
Attending a Finnish wedding this summer?
Have you been invited to a wedding in Finland? We tell you what to expect in a typical Finnish wedding.
Finns and alcohol
Finns have a reputation of being heavy drinkers. In this blog post we examine whether this has any basis in our actual, verified drinking habits.