Every man’s right in Finland
In Finland there is a thing called jokamiehenoikeus or every man’s right. This right gives everyone the freedom to be in the nature undisturbed, without the need to ask permission to anyone, except for people’s yards, plantations and fields. In the nature is possible to walk, hike, bike and…
Birch sap: properties, how to extract and use it
Updated on April 27th, 2019.
Birch is the Finnish national tree, because of many reasons. For instance, there are a lot of them. Also, in the traditional Finnish sauna you would use birch branches in order to flavor the room. In the past, birch bark was used in order to…
Finnish moose snack
A typical finnish snack could easily include smoked moose meat.
Smoked meat exists since the mists of time. Thanks to this process, meat had the possibility to preserve itself for longer time and could be transported during trips as a energy charger.
If you have the chance to come up here,…
Runebergintorttu’s story
Today in Finland is a very special day. It is Runeberginpäivä, the day of Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), the national poet of Finland.
Probably his major work was The tales of Ensign Stål, first published in 1848, in Swedish.
This collection of quite patriotic poems tells about the war of Finland,…