http://www.expatify.com Expat Blogs & Community Magazine Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:30:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.expatify.com/finland/the-museums-of-helsinki-finland.html http://www.expatify.com/finland/the-museums-of-helsinki-finland.html#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:26:17 +0000 Tanya http://www.expatify.com/?p=5923 Atheneum Art Museum The Atheneum Art Museum was opened back in 1887, and today is the largest collection of art in Finland. Its collection consists of Finnish art from the 1750s-1960s, as well as western art from the 1800s to 1950s. Amos Anderson Art Museum The Amos Anderson Art Museum has been around since 1965, and is situated [...]]]> http://www.expatify.com/finland/the-museums-of-helsinki-finland.html/feed 0 http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-lakes-of-finland.html http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-lakes-of-finland.html#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:49:23 +0000 Tanya http://www.expatify.com/?p=5541 The country of Finland has 187,888 lakes that are over 500 square meters (1,640 square feet) in size, plus countless other smaller lakes. About 300 Finnish lakes or reservoirs are over 10 square kilometers in size, and these are some of the biggest. Saimaa Saimaa is the largest lake in Finland, taking up about 4,400 square kilometers (1,700 [...]]]> http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-lakes-of-finland.html/feed 0 http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-theme-parks-of-finland.html http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-theme-parks-of-finland.html#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:37:47 +0000 Tanya http://www.expatify.com/?p=4338 Linnamaki Amusement Park Linnanmaki is the biggest, most visited theme park of Finland, that usually attracts over one million visitors annually. It is situated on top of a mountain, close to downtown Helsinki. It is not a huge park, but there are 41 different rides that suit visitors of all ages. Its most famous ride is [...]]]> http://www.expatify.com/finland/navigating-the-theme-parks-of-finland.html/feed 4 http://www.expatify.com/finland/learning-the-social-and-business-customs-in-finland.html http://www.expatify.com/finland/learning-the-social-and-business-customs-in-finland.html#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:02:02 +0000 Tanya http://www.expatify.com/?p=2789 Social Finland, along with Iceland, is not considered Scandinavian, but Nordic. Their language, Finnish, is not Germanic like the Swedish or Norwegian. Finnish people take value in egalitarianism, and their language uses gender-neutral words. They also also known to be modest and humble. They value good manners and expect others to reflect this and not be [...]]]> http://www.expatify.com/finland/learning-the-social-and-business-customs-in-finland.html/feed 0