My mother, Eila, was an immigrant from Finland, and I was born in her hometown, Rauma, located on Finland’s west coast across the Gulf of Bothnia from Sweden. A Finnish Christmas revolves around ...

TUI has launched package trips to Finland’s Arctic Lakeland region, served by a twice-weekly Manchester–Kajaani service. TUI said the addition would meet demand for traditional Lapland holidays, which ...

Every year, the small city of Rovaniemi becomes a magnet for tourists wanting to soak up the spirit of Christmas. On the edge of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland, the ‘official home of ...

Here is the Christmas horror movie that can be enjoyed by those of us who would never watch "Santa's Slay." ... It is 24 days before Christmas in northern Finland, in a bare, ...

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Christmas is in full swing in Finnish Lapland, where venue operators happily report that visitors have returned in numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels.

Rovaniemi, Finland, is home to Santa Claus Village — a winter wonderland with snow and reindeer. Some visitors flock there every year, and others mail letters for Santa to the destination.

In Finland, it's just not Christmas until one Turku city bureaucrat says so, promising to punish troublemakers according to a solemn medieval tradition that died out centuries ago in the rest of ...

The Christmas ham is large ― 7 kilograms, approximately 15.5 pounds ― and cooked overnight as one kilo equals one hour in the oven. A mustard veil (sinappihuntu) and breadcrumbs cover the pork.

ROVANIEMI, Finland (AP) — Workers at Santa Claus Village, a holiday theme park on the edge of the Arctic Circle, chipped away at a frozen dome, using chisels to put the final touches on an ic… ...