A first-person review of The Maria Hotel in central Helsinki, grand-opened last year, combining four historic 1885 buildings into old-world luxury with modern Nordic style, two restaurants, a bar and a huge spa.
A first-person feature on a close encounter with nature in Tampere, Finland, lying on a soft bed of moss in the Kauppi Forest natural park with guide Karolina, who welcomed each guest with a warm bear hug.
A ’48 hours in Helsinki’ guide to the capital of the world’s most contented nation, abundant in nature trails, lovely seashore, great design and gastronomy, a perfect short break to recharge.
A ’24 hours in Helsinki’ guide to a remarkably unique Nordic gem at the crossroads of Scandinavia and Russia, holding the world record for the most saunas, marrying tradition with innovation.
A round-up of six reasons Helsinki’s Flow Festival is Europe’s pocket Coachella, for festival-going travellers guided by line-ups and site maps and the chance to meet music lovers in unlikely locations.
A first-person feature on Tampere, Finland’s third-largest city and the World Sauna Capital, with over 50 public saunas, built on the Tammerkoski rapids between two lakes in Finnish Lakeland.
A first-person 537-mile road trip across the Arctic Circle through Norway, Finland and Sweden in a roof-down Mazda MX-5, flying into Oslo and on to the snow-strewn airport at Honningsvag.
A first-person review of the newly opened five-star Hotel St George in downtown Helsinki, in a 19th-century building with an Ai Weiwei light sculpture greeting guests in the lobby.
A ’24 hours in Helsinki’ guide to a distinctly Scandinavian-feeling Finnish capital of neat buildings and greenery, whose neoclassical architecture recalls a century of Russian rule.
A feature on the newly opened Amos Rex museum in Helsinki’s Lasipalatsi Square, a largely underground ‘museum for all’ bubbling into the public sphere through funky geometric concrete domes.
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