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Christmas food plays a very important role in the successful celebration of the holidays, and the content of the festive table may even be thought of a few weeks in advance of the actual main moment. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some traditional Christmas dishes as well as what’s on offer at our restaurant for the holidays.
Thanks to the long-lasting cold weather, the ice fishing season has started practically all over Finland. One of the most popular forms of fishing in the winter is the perch ice fishing, which is not only quite easy but also a rewarding way to go fishing. In this blog post, we’ll take a little closer look to this popular winter activity.
A thick and permanent layer of snow should arrive to Ranua in the very next few days. So, as the new winter season will be soon starting, it’s a good time to write a little about cross-country skiing and how I’ve experienced this great winter sport as a hobby.
Arctic Guesthouse & Igloos earned another great achievement again this fall as our business received the TripAdvisor Travelers ’Choice 2021 Award thanks to good customer reviews.
The onset of winter also means the resumption of many winter hobbies. In this blog post, we take a look at snowshoeing, which is a very approachable winter activity for practically all ages and levels of fitness.
Snowmobiling has been one of the most popular winter activities in Finland for decades. The fast-paced snowmobile has lasted well for a long time and has been one of the favorite winter time vehicles from one generation to the next. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at snowmobiling and the varied routes found in Ranua.
Lapland Winter Holidays have become known for many fast-paced outdoor activities, to which various animals are also very closely related. In addition to the reindeer, Lapland is also well known of its Siberian huskies (more commonly known as a mere husky), which are the absolute favorite animals of many of the youngest members of the family. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at this great dog breed as well as popular husky sledding safaris in Lapland.
Seeing and photographing the aurora borealis have been popular Lapland holiday activities for ages. Nowadays there are multiple aurora forecasting services, in turn, which make it much easier to actually see the northern lights. In this blog post, we present a few services that specialize in space weather as well as northern lights forecasting.
November is almost the end of its first week and Christmas is already fast approaching. The month before December has traditionally been a time of various Christmas opening events in Finland. In this blog post, we tell you more about the Christmas opening events in Helsinki, Rovaniemi and Ranua.
The travel business in Finland has started to recover and this also means that there are now more international flights available to the capital of Finnish Lapland. In this blog post, we will list all the non-stop flights and airlines flying to Rovaniemi this winter.
The Finnish summer is often playfully described as short and light snow, but what about the winter itself? Although the Finnish winter is not comparable to that of Siberia, for example, in any case we can talk about challenging and sometimes harsh conditions, which also set their own requirements for clothing. In this blog post, we present the principles of layering, which plays an important role.
Santa Claus, also known as just plain Santa or Father Christmas, is the most famous resident of Finnish Lapland. In this blog post, I will tell you all that you need to know about him, as well as answering some frequently asked questions.
For many Finns, Christmas is still one of the most important holiday of the year. Families usually get together and settle to enjoy common traditions together. In this blog post, I will tell you a little more about Finnish traditions, their history, food and how I usually spend this holiday myself.
Although we are only living the beginning of October, winter is already approaching Finland at a rapid pace. One of the most well-known natural phenomena in Lapland’s winter is the polar night, which could be considered the opposite of our summer’s nightless night. In this blog post, we present the facts related to “kaamos” in a little more detail.
Even though Finland has been chosen as the happiest country in the world four times in a row and featured in many major international medias during the last couple of years and for many different reasons, there are still multiple frequently asked questions that people from abroad are asking us. In this blog post, we will answer more than ten of these.
The purpose of the Stories from Ranua travel blog is to make our entire community and the companies operating here as well known as possible. We put a lot of effort in our content and write each of our blog posts with real passion. With high-quality and passionate content production, our goal is to turn the Stories of Ranualta travel blog into the best travel and tourism-related blog in Finland. Highly appreciated Feedspot has lister our blog in Top 100 blogs in Finland.
Tuomas Haapala, born in Ranua, is responsible for the blog posts and editing of the stories on the Stories from Ranua travel blog. Tuomas, who is also our digital marketing specialist, mainly works from Helsinki. Despite his relatively young age, Tuomas has been writing both as a hobby and work for more than 15 years already. Before Stories from Ranua blog, Tuomas has experience on writing content for many different blogs, articles and websites. You can get to know Tuomas’ writings in more detail, for example, on his Medium profile.
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