Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the mid 1990’s, they more and more attracted a wide European audience with their symphonic metal. Songs like Wishmaster or The Carpenter gave…
Visit my Finnish favorite SB-Pro Nurmijärvi for two home matches in January 2020, I was looking for a reasonable priced overnight, which is close to Nurmijärvi as well as to Vantaa airport, where I had an early morning flight on…
In recent times, I had three Business Class flights with Finnair’s long distance flagship, the Airbus A 350. In August, I had the morning service from Helsinki-Vantaa to London-Heathrow, which is always serviced by that aircraft, while we had Friday…
Helsinki Airport is nicely staffed with airport hotels: the GLO Hotel is located right inside the terminal building, two more hotels, the Scandic Helsinki Airport and Hilton Helsinki Airport are located in close walking distance. Typically, as I favor Hilton…
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 – a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a whole nation. Not Germany, where I live in, but the by dear friends from Finland had a national party, which…
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut solo album Musta sydämen rovio. As Finnish is a rather cryptic language in major parts of the world, Hietala released an…
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi vs. Classic Tampere – this has been the traditional match setup for years, when it comes to the big ones in Finnish women floorball. While SB-Pro was leading the league on that 19th January 2020, Classic was still…
The match on 18th January 2020 was likely a tougher one for SB-Pro: trailing 0-5 against Swiss champtions Kloten-Dietlikon Jets after 37 minutes the weekend before in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the Champions Cup was in fact over for the Finnish…