If you hail from Sweden or Russia and you desire to lend a creative and exotic touch to your Christmas shopping this Christmas , step outside your native country and bon voyage to your next-door neighbor, Finland.
Your Christmas Shopping in Finland can actually turn out to be a memorable experience for you as it would be quite akin to an extended Christmas Vacation for you and your family. If you are under the impression that Finland's Rovaniemi, being Santa's hometown is amusing only for the kids, you are harboring an errorous conception.
Finland's beautiful lakes and forests and unspoiled tracts of Aland Islands is bound to leave you awestruck and its Lapland, Europe's last Wilderness area flocked with Reindeers has barely failed to impress ever. Pack your bags and set sail for Finland!
Christmas is celebrated with much glee and mirth in Helsinki, Finland's capital city whose throbbing nightlife can put any of its European contemporaries to shame. The celebrations officially spark off with the opening of the Christmas Street on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki (famous for its display of lights) by none other than Santa himself. If you are bored with the usual Christmas favors that you have been giving and receiving for ages together, now you have the opportunity to strike a difference. Finland's hand made items are quite unique and have original Finnish designs engraved and inscribed on them, thereby serving as a welcome respite from the run of the mill, cliché market wares that flood the malls during the Christmas time.
Provided below, is a list of shops and stores that can make your shopping a lot easier in Finland.
- Originally a sugar factory, Kiseleff Bazaar is a shopper's paradise. You are likely to get lost amidst the wide variety of handmade products, ranging from quilts, showers, candles to anything you can think of.
- If you walk for two minutes from the Esplanade there stands the Taito Shop Helsky, which specializes in Christmas tea and liquorices.
- Stop by, to buy a few of the buttons, beads and jewelry Aarikka has to offer or simply rush to the Finnish design institutes Iittala, Aarikka, Marimekko and Artek to get hold of pieces of ornate furniture, potholders and designer vases.
Rush and get your tickets booked now or you might just end up losing this great opportunity.
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