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Salo Pumpkin Park – the unofficial main Halloween phenomenon in Finland

A visitor once described its atmosphere as the “Stars Hallow of Finland”. Those of you who have enjoyed the Gilmore Girls tv-series will get what this means. Please let me introduce you to this special place which magically appears and disappears annually and has brought the soft light of pumpkin lanterns to the life of […]

Who cares about Halloween? We have Kekri! 5 facts about the Finnish harvest celebration when even ghosts go to sauna

Kekri is an old Finnish agricultural harvest festival celebrated in autumn, and it’s also the time for the souls and spirits of the dead to visit us who are still living here on Earth. This is the time when even ghosts go to sauna!  Halloween or All Hallow’s Eve has spred all around the world […]