Photo Of The Week – Who Cycles In A Snow Storm?!

This photo captures one of my fondest travel memories. It was taken last year on a trip to Helsinki when we were visiting Suomenlinna, the archipelago Army island just off the mainland which was once used as an 18th century fortress. It was the middle of winter – definitely not tourist season in a city where […]

The Art Of Finnish Ice Swimming

If you had’ve told me when I was little that one of my favourite activities as an adult would be jumping into a frozen lake through a hole cut in the snow, I probably would have kicked you in the shins.  So, fast forward a couple of decades and I find myself in Helsinki in the depths […]