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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. To be updated

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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 Laurens013
October 25th 2009

Berichtje uit Tampere Europe » Finland » Pirkanmaa » Tampere

Weer even een update nu ik hier in Tampere zit Op dit moment zit ik even met Andy en Bjorn in het Omena hotel om wat nieuws naar het thuisfront te sturen. Het hotel is best bijzonder aangezien er geen staf aanwezig is. Bij binnenkomst krijg je een pincode waarmee je de gangen en de kamers in kan. Alleen 's middags komt een schoonmaker langs om de lege kamers schoon te maken, dit houdt alles goed betaalbaar wat voor onze school natuurlijk zeer welkom is. De kamers zijn aardig en simpel. Tampere is een erg mooie stad, een hoop prachtige [View Full Entry]

By carinzil
October 20th 2009

16km - new training trail Europe » Finland » Lapland » Levi

on the walk with Ukon

Here I am again. I thought I change my weblog a little bit as it seems that nobody but my Mum and Steffy are actually reading it (oh and HeXe, she said she's reading it a little bit) ... even if there are 6 subscribers. So I'm going to write in English AND in German as long as I do short entries. Long entries are going to be only in English. It snowed again the last 2 days but not as much as last week :-( It'd be sooo good to get a hell of a lot of snow to finally [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 carinzil
October 8th 2009

As time goes bye Europe » Finland » Lapland » Levi

Ayla

As time goes bye so much happened that I'm not able to even write everything at once :-) The official autuum training started and we train the dogs, of course not with sledges but with Quads. There are 14-20 dogs in front of a Quad and on top of the Quad we have a weight and we are two of us sitting on top of it. I'm working with Petra at the moment. She's working here since 3 years and she's from Germany. We work in teams of 3 at the moment so Celia from Switzerland is working with us as [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]

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