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It started a few days ago, but the Helsinki Festival is now in full swing and welcoming visitors from around Europe and elsewhere until September 4. The Helsinki Festival is a broad-based international arts festival, featuring music, dance, ...

We're always eager here to alert you to great events that are happening around the globe. If you're luckier than we are and happen to be heading to Europe...or perhaps you live there...you might consider the wold-famous Helsinki Festival. The ...

I was pretty impressed by Helsinki's public transportation, which was more than ample with trolleys, subways and buses. There were few SUVs, and the bike lane was rarely empty. While the Finns got the ingredients right, the mixing was ... well ... ...

There's nothing better than traveling to a foreign country and having a local show you around. Unfortunately, it is never that easy to find a local willing to take the time to walk some foreigner around their home town and show them the sites. The ...

The Helsinki Vintage Fair happens twice a year in Finland, and the next one is right around the corner. On September 27, 2009, nearly 50 vintage and second-hand clothing and décor stores will get together at Kaapelitehdas to sell there goods, ...

Seven days just won't work for those crazy Finns. These design-savvy northern Europeans thus had to stretch its design celebration to 10 days. From September 4, 2009 to September 13, 2009, Helsinki will host the Fifth Helsinki Design Week: Do Touch! ...

Two North Korean diplomats tried to claim diplomatic immunity when they were arrested in Stockholm for smuggling cigarettes. The man and woman, who were caught driving their tobacco-filled car off a ferry from Helsinki, have been taken into police ...

We're into the home stretch on 2009, with only three months left to enjoy. Then, the calendar page flips over, and we take on 2010. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways left to make the rest of this year memorable. In Finland, home to some of the ...

It's time to look at the festivals and events happening around the world, and this week has a particularly international selection of happenings. If you're close and have time, then you have no excuse to get out and go! Mexico - Birders will ...

Here's a travel factoid for the day: It was 106 years ago today that Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia. Apparently, today in Panama, which they call "Separation Day," even the bars are closed. It's time to look at the festivals and ...

Behind a non-descript wooden door somewhere in Helsinki, there lies a legendary (well, at least for the last year or so) place called Hevimesta, literally, "the heavy place", where history is in the making. You see, with all the otherwise weird ...

According to a recent study by The Economist, the World's Ten Most Expensive Cities are: Oslo Paris Copenhagen London Tokyo Osaka Kobe Reykjavik Zurich ...

This is a parade of Reliant cars, coming into Helsinki, during the "Reliants to Russia" road rally, wherein the contestants raced 4000 miles across 12 countries from London to Latvia, via the Arctic Circle. Teams used only one of three Reliant ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Finnish_Trash_Cans_Thank_You_in_6_Languages_For_Using_Them'; This summer, the garbage cans of Helsinki will have something to say ... to you ... in six languages. The strange people who brought you ...

A very nice three-part series from public radio's PRI The World on world music. This dispatch from the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas features some performances from groups you've likely never heard of, like Daara J, a group ...