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During my stay in Helsinki, I went to the ISKCON temple there, on a particular weekend. I was in for a surprise (which comes later). Before ...

It's been quite some time since I posted here. I am back in India and it's already going to be a month, since I am back. (Though I w...

When I came to Finland, the land of the midnight sun , 4 months back (yeah time sure flows by), all I could see was days and days on end, ha...

Please read Cruise to Stockholm and Twilight in sunset and moonrise first. The next morning, by the time we woke up, we could see that we...

Please read the previous post first. After some time, since the panorama passing by consisted of nothing but water everywhere, we got back i...

On 20th of August, M/s Mariella from the Viking Line sailed for Stockholm, Sweden at 5:30pm from Katajanokka terminal, Helsinki. Aboard were...

On 19th of August was the Finnish fireworks championship. The 1855 bombardment of Sveaborg (Soumenlinna Island) barely touched Helsinki (but...

I finally got to see the event as I wanted - on the eve of the closing ceremony. After scouring the venue for 2 days we finally got the tick...

This was one of the events responsible for a lot of personal misery to me (and my colleagues) unfortunately. No, I am not a sports fanatic a...

The public transport system in Finland is quite good. One has trains, buses, trams and the metro to commute. Finland or rather Helsinki is a...

I have often wondered in the recent past, how come the bollywood bigshots, who spare no country in search of locations and shoot in location...

In Finland there are two official languages and no, English is not one of them. These are Finnish and Swedish. Finnish, supposedly, is deri...

On midsummer's eve , I went out just exploring the city and some of its islands. The next day (the actual midsummer day), I went to Nuuk...

The 24th June was midsummer eve this year. This is a festival associated with the summer solstice. Midsummer is thought to be a very favour...

A lot of things here are quite the opposite of what my senses and sensibilities are used to. The traffic is obviously right hand driven with...

If you haven't come here via this link, then please read that first. The view from the planes was great. Europe seems to be covered wit...