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Curiosities

I want to share a website I found very interesting about curiosities of Finland. I can say that, now, three months and a half living here I knew some of the curiosities but others were new for me. If someone wants to know more about this country it´s very interesting!
https://wonderfulwanderings.com/interesting-facts-about-finland/

I can feel number 2, the language is very very very difficult and hard to learn!
Sauna is one of the most common things to do in Finland, you can´t visit Finland and not go to the sauna! They say joking that there are more saunas than cars, so imagine.
For number 7 you need to go in summer but in May also there is light most of the day, so sometimes is a bit complicated sleep, also because they don´t use blinds as in Spain.
About number 9 I agree, I could see the Northern lights when I went to Lapland and it´s magical.
Also, I could experiment number 10 cause I did the Husky safari when I was in Lapland and it´s amazing.
I knew about Heavy metal culture here (number 12) but since I´m here I have to say that I´ve never listened to heavy metal music.
Number 13 is also true, there are so many lakes! And the funny thing is that in winter they are frozen and you can walk on them and now in spring and summer they are in the normal stage.
I agree also with number 14, there is so much nature everywhere! Sometimes we had to go to someplace because of university events or something and sometimes we were very near to forests.
I didn´t know about number 16 but I was in Helsinki and it was pretty clean so..
And yes, there are a lot of islands everywhere! (number 17)
Also true number 18, they have a lot of support when they have a baby, we don´t have that in Spain sadly.

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