Ice road to Hailuoto
This is the longest ice road in Finland, around 6-7 kilometres long. It is made nearly every winter on the ice between the city of Oulu and the municipality of Hailuoto, the same name as the island has. The road is an official road with many traffic signs. No stopping, no passing-by, only smiling allowed,…
12th February 2021
What a warm letter from Colombia!
“Mrs. Santa Claus, Te saludo desde Colombia, de una mamita a otra con corazón de niña, pues siempre espero la Navidad con esperanza, felicidad, sueños y agradecimiento por un ano nuevo mas de vida para toda mi familia. Te doy gracias por mantener vivo el espiritu de la Navidad tanto en Finlandia como en…
11th December 2020
What did Mrs. Santa Claus Finland saw?
Excited about Hailuoto Island I wanted to spend some days at our free time house on Hailuoto Island in the Northern Finland to see the ice balls on the beach I had heard about. Meriluoto and Merisilta ferries waiting for their trip to and from Hailuoto. I draw 15 kilometres from the mainland to…
5th May 2020
Experiencing Kuertunturi Fell in Lapland
An exciting ski and filming day in Lapland at Kuertunturi Fell White frost against the blue sky. The photo is for sale. We made on a frosty day a ski trip to Kuertunturi Fell, where you would climb with skis in the armpit, backpack and backpacking equipment. There are always warm drinks, sandwiches, dried apple…
3rd January 2020
Mysterious ice balls
Hailuoto, a little Town of Ice Balls! There was a little Snow Flake. It was hanging around in the air just above an island. It fell down towards the beach and the waves took it into the water. There were thousands of other snow flakes which were swimming in the sea. All of them came…
15th December 2019
Order a letter from Mrs. Santa Claus!
Draw or write to Mrs. Santa Claus! Why don’t you make a nice drawing of your favorite hobby or write something about your day! You can also draw about the friends, Little bird, Cat, Little Elf, Santa or Mrs. Santa. Send it to Mrs. Santa Claus and you get an answer from her. Our elves…
9th December 2019
Little Elf makes nice pictures
Our little elf, Mari, is always willing to do nice pictures. She has been studying how to draw and how to write nice letters. Can you write? Can you draw? I suppose you can. You just make a circle, two circles, three or more circles and write nice letters in the picture. Then you can…
4th November 2019
Visiting Santa Claus Village in 2018
Visiting Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi by train was, as I presumed, again an interesting experience arousing many creative thoughts in the dark capital of the Magical Lapland. You know the sun does shine only a few hours there, but I got bright ideas there. Lapland felt a state of mind. It was already the…
15th December 2018
Christmas Cat in the snow at Syöte
Hello, this is me, the adventurous Christmas Cat! I am running so fast to the Southernmost fell area in Finland, Iso-Syöte, where the snow covers all the trees and bushes with beautiful and creamlike snow. My white fur coat warms me up and fits in the winter landscape very sweetly. In the photo it looks real…
15th December 2018
Ten favorites of a very traditional Finnish Christmas
Santa Claus brings gifts for children and nice adults on Christmas Eve. It is considered as a good manner to to accept gifts as well as give gifts to family members even if today many people have everything they need. Well, needs are still different, so is the way families want to wish from Santa…
4th December 2018
Little Bird here!
Little Finnish bird Hello, this is me, a Little Finnish bird, who used to move to the South in the Autumn, to the warmth of Italy. Away from the Finnish winter and come back to Finland at the Spring. Many other little birds flew with me to the South. I left behind me blue lakes,…
4th November 2018
Trip to Santa Claus Village 2016
Warm clothes make a happy trip It is easy to travel by train to Rovaniemi from Oulu, like from the Airport of Oulu, Kuusamo, Kemi or the railway station of Oulu or Helsinki. You can find some practical tips for a visit to Rovaniemi in the video above. It is also very important that you…
15th December 2017
Chinese cute pandas and Mrs. Santa Claus
We are students from China. Now we are working with a cute lady: Mrs. Santa Claus. Our member of the group, Zhou Yaoyi, brought a picture of a very cute panda to Finland as the present to our nice Mrs. Santa Claus. The other members: Chen Gong, Gao Yueni, Jin Kaiqi and Liu Yiru are…
4th November 2017
