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Background: Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its freedom and resist invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory. In the subsequent half century, the Finns made a remarkable transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western Europe. As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January 1999.

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By McGuyver
November 14th 2009

SMACk MY BITCH UP Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

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We went to the Prodigy on Thursday, skipped school and stood for 10 hours infront of the concert hall. It was incredibly cold, my whole body was shaking for 2 days, but eventually the concert was worth every second of suffering. We got places in the first row, which means we touched the band and the band threw water bottles at us and we were pretty wet when we left the concert. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhM730p_eM0 WATCH THIS I WAS IN THE FIRST ROW THERE [View Full Entry]

By Kati ja Sami
November 8th 2009

Matkasuunnitelmia Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Kuusi yötä lähtöön. Matkasuunnitelma jotenkuten kasassa. [View Full Entry]

By McGuyver
November 5th 2009

LET IT SNOW Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

THis picture is taken at 4:30 PM

It was just amazing, we sat in a pal 's house and had fun, and suddenly Paloma ran in screaming: "First Snow !" and I had the best Snowballbattle of my LIFE, by the way it was the most beautiful and snowy snow I ve ever seen. Unfortunatly I forgot my camera and so, with sadness and physical pain I ve gotta tell you that I cannot share this evening with you. But on the next day I put my camera on and made 1000 of pictures. *FINEST QUALITY* [View Full Entry]

By DonKey44
October 19th 2009

Helsinki, Finland Day 17 Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Scandic Marski Breakfast Area

Day 17, September 17 We woke up to clear skies and cool weather. At breakfast I tried smoked herring which tasted pretty good, not good enough for a second helping, but not too bad. We loaded up on meat, bread, jam, eggs, tomato, yogurt, fruit, cereal, and orange juice. No later fish burps made me regret my herring helping. We hopped on the #3 tram and arrived 25 minutes ahead of the scheduled departure of the Sea Fort ferry as checked the day before. However, the board said 5 minutes to departure, pays to be early. Past a few islands, some [View Full Entry]

By McGuyver
October 12th 2009

Into the Wild Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

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I went to Tupovara with Markku for 4 days and we lived in a little cottage without electricity or clean water. We tried to shoot birds and to fish, but in the end we left with just one little fish. It was cold and wet, with fireplaces, Sauna, beer and grilled meat. It was like one of these Survival trips, just without guardians or organized help, so a "Real Survival Trip". It was a great experience to jumb into 0*C cold water, to sit in a little boat in the middle of a deep blue lake, but it was also hard [View Full Entry]

By DonKey44
October 8th 2009

Helsinki, Finland Day 15 Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Day 15, September 15 After eating another colon clogging colossal breakfast and thanks to scouting yesterday we left at 8 am confident in reaching Arlanda Airport way ahead of time before our Stockholm Card expired. At the airport self check in we got our boarding passes for the changed flight at almost 2 pm. At the gate we saw stairs going up to the second floor where we parked all by ourselves with a great view of the take off runway and the forest beyond. A huge cloud of black smoke shot up from the forest, and we assumed the terrorist [View Full Entry]

By DonKey44
October 8th 2009

Helsinki, Finland Day 16 Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Nude Nurmi Outside Olympic Stadium

Day 16, September 16 We woke up to rain. The breakfast buffet tasted good, but took second place to the Radisson in Stockholm. Umbrella in hand we marched out to the tram stop in front of the hotel and rode the circuit past residential areas, parks, the Olympic Stadium, down town buildings, and back to the train station where we departed to collect some information. The tourist information agent pointed out areas of interest on the map and when I asked about the very early plane departure indicated we had but one option, TAXI. I have never had a good taxi [View Full Entry]

By arsku
October 7th 2009

Lentokentällä Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Moi! Terveisiä Helsinki-Vantaan lentoaseman loungesta. Otin tässä pari lasia viiniä ja tultiin Olgan kanssa tietokoneille. Tähän asti matka on mennyt hyvin. Outi tuli hakemaan meidät. Hain vielä apteekista lääkkeitä ja ehdimme bussiin kohtalaisen hyvin: olimme bussiasemalla 5 minuuttia ennen bussin lähtöä. Ari [View Full Entry]

By McGuyver
September 28th 2009

My Saturday Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

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It was Emmas Birthday and she invited a few dreinds, we hang around at her place until midnight and then we went downtown to go clubbing, but the door man wanted to see my I.D and unfortenatly it was at home so I had to leave ;) [View Full Entry]

By Andy and Debbie
September 19th 2009

Just About Finnished Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Finnish Banks are Still Standing

Close your eyes for a just a minute and picture Scandinavia. Looks pretty fine, doesn’t it? I’m guessing we summoned our fair share of forests and fjords, lakes and longboats, saunas and snow-clad slopes. And it really is all out there in this winter wonderland, an area five times as large as Britain with less than half the population. So why is it, do you think, that hardly anyone ever goes? I’ve been to some pretty far flung places in my time, but had never even thought of Scandinavia, despite Scotland being only a hop and a skip away. That is, [View Full Entry]

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