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Post by Humppaporo on May 28, 2008 7:59:45 GMT 2
I don't know about the bisquits, leave that to the Finns here, but i do know that liquorice and salmiakki are common tastes for sweet things in Finland. I tried both liquorice and salmiakki icecream and they are really excellent in taste.
Holland is also famous for liquorice and it is maybe the most common kind of candy here, but even for Dutchies it is very uncommon to put it in sweet things. Come on Finns, conquer the Dutch icecream market!
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Finland
May 28, 2008 12:32:29 GMT 2
Post by ingrid on May 28, 2008 12:32:29 GMT 2
salmiakki icecream is totally weird, but so typical finnish haha. but it tasted pretty good yeah, though my mouth was completely black after eating it haha
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Finland
May 28, 2008 19:14:33 GMT 2
Post by BulgarianChild on May 28, 2008 19:14:33 GMT 2
I have to do a presentation about Finland and want to ask you to tell me something interesting about the country that very few people know. Something that would be interesting for many poeple who want to visit your country... I hope you understand what I mean...
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Finland
May 28, 2008 21:35:37 GMT 2
Post by wyldechild on May 28, 2008 21:35:37 GMT 2
Ah thank you all much for the response. I had completely forgot I posted a question here!
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Finland
Aug 25, 2008 15:30:05 GMT 2
Post by nefikuolema on Aug 25, 2008 15:30:05 GMT 2
I found some web, where you can rent a cottage somewhere in Finland. The cottages are from the whole Finland and it's usualy at the lake. I was thinking about renting a cottage near Joensuu next summer, it was quite cheap. If I was there with 5 more people, it would cost about 100€ per week - it means the renting costs about 600€ per week (I don't remember it exactly). Do you think it's a good choice for first travel to Finland, or should I rather buy some kind of "travel around country" - I mean like seeing different cities, every day in a different place (don't know how it's called in english )?
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Finland
Sept 4, 2008 13:54:23 GMT 2
Post by Nordis on Sept 4, 2008 13:54:23 GMT 2
should I rather buy some kind of "travel around country" - I mean like seeing different citi es, every day in a different place (don't know how it's called in english )? Absolutely not! If you plan to visit several places, be sure to spend atleast two or three days in each. Otherwise you'll just end sitting in a bus for a week without actually seeing anything. Renting a cottage would be good idea if you just want to enjoy the peaceful nature, but they're often so far from everything that you might need to take a taxi to get there. Be sure to check how far they are from the nearest village / town, you don't want to walk 20km to a grocery store
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Finland
Sept 4, 2008 14:01:47 GMT 2
Post by Nordis on Sept 4, 2008 14:01:47 GMT 2
Maybe at a stretch this belongs here...under culture? I found today a review of a "classic Finnish biscuit". Can anyone say if they are a common Finnish biscuit? Common: yes, classic: not
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Post by Nordis on Oct 26, 2008 3:06:30 GMT 2
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Post by Socke on Oct 26, 2008 4:01:06 GMT 2
Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Helsinki, but some of those pictures are true art. And at least they don't try to make the weather or anything else nicer than it is. Once I did some research on postcards that were available in Oulu for an article and damn, you could believe we have the eternal summer here, with women in bikinis lolling on the beach and people in shorts and t-shirts sitting in cafes all the time
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Finland
Oct 26, 2008 19:11:39 GMT 2
Post by Nordis on Oct 26, 2008 19:11:39 GMT 2
Even though I'm not the biggest fan of Helsinki, but some of those pictures are true art. And at least they don't try to make the weather or anything else nicer than it is. Once I did some research on postcards that were available in Oulu for an article and damn, you could believe we have the eternal summer here, with women in bikinis lolling on the beach and people in shorts and t-shirts sitting in cafes all the time Ahahaha ;D I love the postcards of Kouvola as all of them try to show the "sights" of the city, i.e. the horrible concrete blob of railway station, a "fountain" on the market square and then the Soviet style buildings. There's actually a company that makes all kinds of "Kouvostoliitto"(a wordplay from "Neuvostoliitto", meaning U.S.S.R.) products. Observe: kouvostoliitto.groteski.net/kortit.htm
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Finland
Oct 31, 2008 18:58:48 GMT 2
Post by ingrid on Oct 31, 2008 18:58:48 GMT 2
I've got a question to you Finns I want to know what's the connection between the flower on your 2 Euro coin and Finland is there anything special about it? or is it there without a special reason? kiitos
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Finland
Oct 31, 2008 19:50:38 GMT 2
Post by Humppaporo on Oct 31, 2008 19:50:38 GMT 2
Odd that you just ask this now. I had to read for school a long story about the history of Finnish money. There is nothing said about the pictures on the euro's. So i thought it would be nice that the essay i had to write, was about this. Of could the lion and the swans are easy, but the cloudberry (suomuurain or hilla)... it grows all over Finland, though mostly in Lapland. I also wondered about this.
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Post by ingrid on Nov 2, 2008 13:45:38 GMT 2
ah ok thnx yeah I see so much money at work, so I'm always wondering why they put the things on the coins that they put on. so I searched a bit about the flower, but couldn't find what's so special about it for Finland
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Finland
Nov 27, 2008 19:16:41 GMT 2
Post by Nordis on Nov 27, 2008 19:16:41 GMT 2
I don't know why the flower is on the euro coins, atleast I can't think why it would be special. It's not our national flower or anything... I found a video that really captures the essence of Finland somehow. The news article is about a bus full of old people that slipped off from a road in the middle of nowhere. The video is from that place but somehow it still feels quite unrelated. Anyway, it's certainly 100% Finland ;D www.nelonen.fi/videot/uutisvideot/default.asp?video=6467&newpage=1&c=1
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Post by Ǽcen on Dec 3, 2008 6:55:04 GMT 2
I don't know why the flower is on the euro coins, atleast I can't think why it would be special. It's not our national flower or anything... I found a video that really captures the essence of Finland somehow. The news article is about a bus full of old people that slipped off from a road in the middle of nowhere. The video is from that place but somehow it still feels quite unrelated. Anyway, it's certainly 100% Finland ;D www.nelonen.fi/videot/uutisvideot/default.asp?video=6467&newpage=1&c=1Definitely not the same scenery they show you at visitfinland.com
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