Stunning scenery, wide open spaces, magical never ending days AND the sun is coming........Summer Finland, heaven!

The coming weekend in Finland sees forecasts of 20-25C and above. The population are already heading out of the cities on weekends to their lakeside cottages and putting their yachts into the water along Finland’s extensive and beautiful coastline.
The country blossoms with the arrival of summer, which is made, even more special due to those never ending days. In the north of the country, Finnish Lapland, the sun will not set for two months. This means the normal daily timetable goes out of the window. It is not unusual to be invited to midnight picnics, take saunas and lake swims in the early hours.
Midsummer celebrations, this year the weekend on 23 & 24 June, sees the summer city exodus in earnest with many families starting their long summer vacations until late July or even into August.

Even above the Arctic Circle summer temperatures are taking hold and the regions most famous resident will be donning his summer outfits and making plans for his summer vacation.
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