summer2016 - The Mad Traveler

Visiting any city, I love a good day trip out into a nearby region. Helsinki has its islands – particularly

The Finnish Sauna Experience

Blog post #5 From The Finland Trip For being so far north, things certainly get very hot in Finland. To

Blog post #4 From The Finland Trip My Finnish-American grandmother was very fond of lutefisk as was her mother before

Utsjoki was the northernmost destination on our Finland Trip and about as remote as we could get. While salmon fishers

We looked out over the Tenojoki or Teno River at Norway, at the mirror image of the Finnish terrain. Modest

September is here and beer lovers know this is Oktoberfest season. But when I asked my German friends if they

(continued) Our flight to Kuusamo from Chicago O’Hare meant a change of planes (and loss of a bag) in Dusseldorf,

We typically like to hang around Madison in summer – like most Wisconsinites these few months of magnificent weather and