The last viral image from Helsinki of 2011 was the hilarious fictional Speech bubble conversation of the Angry Birds founder and his wife, while queuing up to meet the President of Finland Tarja Halonen on Day.

There were quiet many slips and falls during January as the winter finally arrived, but it wasn*t only the Helsinki folk who were sliding all over the place, but the beloved public transport system too.

Winter is the season for tram delays as idiots drivers don’t properly park their cars, that we are used to seeing. However we are less use to seeing buses sliding all over the place and carshing in such focal places.

Check out the below image of car crash in Kamppi area, Helsinki during Mid January.

Nokia announced a lost on profits during January Financial Statements, however claimed to sell well over 1 million Lumia devices since their launch in November 2011. Nokia Lumia goes on sales in Finland during February and in preparation, the marketing spend on Online, In Stores and even outdoors has been phenomenal for Finland standards.

Check out the cool Nokia Lumia window displace promotion at Stockmann department store in the heart of Helsinki.

While the USA were up in arms regarding SOPA, Finland quietly took action on illegal downloading during January with the restriction of the website “The Pirate Bay” Continue Reading

I went to Kitch restaurant in Helsinki centre last weekend and saw something interesting

Is this even legal? Its a bit Kitschy for me!

But the food was still good.

The Kitsch Food

Check it out! – eat.fi

Heippa Hei Helsinkilainen!

It has been a pretty nice weekend with Summer sun with high temps of 25 degres throughout! Continue Reading

.. after a 6 month pause we have finally shook off that winter hibernation and ready for the awesome Midnight sun summertime that truely makes Finland and Helsinki the awesome city it it. Continue Reading

The annual exhibit is back, and I went to check out it out. ARS `11 is all about Africa! Waka Waka!… Continue Reading

If anyone needs evidence that Finnish born Rovios creation Angry Birds has gone international, can just check out this video parody of the Birds and the Pigs on Israeli TV. Continue Reading

Wow! That has pretty much been my reaction this entire time when it comes to everything related to the Finnish teams Ice Hockey win Continue Reading

CNN’s Richard Quest came to Finland in the depths of 2011s winter to do a number of insightful reports about how Finland is dealing with modern life. Continue Reading