...crafts in the making

...shopping - Everyone loves shopping!

Winter

...skiing or sledding

....Visiting Santa in Lapland

...ice swimming with a sauna - sounds crazy, but it's *amazingly* good

Traveling with a family and want to spend your vacation in Finland doing family things? Go to some museums for a day and have pizza for lunch with the kids at a local pizzeria.--It's what the Finns do. We did that with our friends.

My favorite place is at Hörtsänän Arboretum where you can see hundreds of different Finnish and foreign plant and tree species.

Or take a day hiking trip in the countryside. Stay at a quaint bed-and-breakfast place.

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A summer cottage up ahead. There are lots of them in Finland. And there are enough lakes in Finland for every person in the country to put their cottage on their own lake. Would you like a cottage on a private lake?

My insider's view for you.

You are wondering about accommodation in Finland. A hotel or bed-n-breakfast.

What routes to travel in Finland, day trips, tours, or, sights to see? Just ask the locals?

My wife's colleague at work suggested her favorite "medium priced hotel in Tampere"--I immediately knew it would be good. So we went.

A Sauna in Finland--Look at the steam coming from that sauna!

Once, when I poured water in a so-called 'Finnish Sauna' in Stockerau, Austria, a spa attendant stormed in the steam room rebuking me for pouring too much water onto the stove. I poured on less. They said. "Water pouring times are every half hour only." Oops--Do not worry, in Finland you will experience a real Finnish sauna, and with some advice, it will be a *great* Finnish sauna experience.

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