// Of all the many available choices of accommodation in Finland, perhaps the most exotic are the many places where visitors can spend a night in a room fashioned from snow and ice. Indeed, this option has proven to be one of the winter’s most popular as can be seen by the increase in the [...]
The first Air Guitar World Championships were held in 1996 as part of the larger Oulu Music Video Festival, and has been held there every summer since then. That first year was dominated by Finns, who took gold, silver and bronze, but since then the sheer number of representatives from around the world has brought [...]
The blame for this particular brand of Finnish madness can be laidly firmly at the muddy feet of Esa Romppainen, a member of the Vuokatti Ski Team, who was seeking a means of intensifying his summer training regime to ensure full fitness for winter competition. Apparently there was a brainstorming session during which the idea [...]
Since 1992 Sonkajärvi has hosted this remarkable sporting event. The first four years of the competition were a purely national affair, but word spread quickly and soon it became an international phenomenon attracting couples from around the world. Although the competition is one noted for the good humour of both contestants and spectators alike, it [...]
