Through Finland in Carts

Accordingly, desiring to do the correct thing before leaving the land of thousands of lakes, we took the steamer from the ancient town of _Åbo_, to the modern fashionable wateri...

Finland is famous for its baths and its beauties; its sky effects and its waterways; its quaint customs and its poetry; its people and their pluck. Finland will repay a visit.

Like most Finnish towns, _Iisalmi_ proved somewhat disappointing. We waited a day or two, to rest, to collect letters and answer them, to bathe and mend our clothes, and then gl...

Many strange customs still linger in East Finland, probably because the inhabitants, far removed from civilisation, cling tenaciously to the traditions and usages of their foref...

Such are the manners and customs of the past; now let us take a look at the _Suomi_ of to-day, that we may better understand the life of the people before we start on our trip i...

To say we were tired hardly describes the situation. We were absolutely exhausted. So exhausted, in fact, were we, after our late experiences, that when--twenty-eight hours afte...

Having torn ourselves away from our kind friends at _Ilkeäsaari_ for a time, and digressed from our story to describe Finnish baths, we must now own that the prospect of a night...

It is difficult for strangers to travel through the heart of Finland, for every person may not be so lucky as to be passed on from one charming friend to another equally delight...

The bells rang! It was four A.M. when the ship _Concordia_, which had been our home for thirty-six hours, arrived at _Nyslott_, one of the small towns which are sparsely scatter...

In our case it took twenty-nine hours without sleep to descend the rapids, for we left _Kajana_ at seven A.M. on Thursday morning, and only reached _Uleåborg_ at mid-day on Frid...

Terror had entered our souls when we read in the _Nya Pressen_, the day before leaving for the musical festival at _Sordavala_, the following: "_Sordavala_ has only thirteen hun...

By the kindness of the Governor of the district everything had been arranged for a drive of a couple hundred miles through some of the prettiest parts of the country from _Kuopi...

A seventeen hours' trip in the _Kaiser Wilhelm_ along the coast brought us from _Helsingfors_ to _Wiborg_. The passage lay between innumerable islands, and every landing-place w...

A real native bath is one of the specialities of the country. Even in the old songs of the _Kalevala_ they speak of the "cleansing and healing vapours of the heated bath-room."

Before describing our own life in a haunted castle, with its joys and its fears, we must pause and reflect on two of the most important factors in Finnish life--the position of...

We were worn out and weary when we reached _Kajana_, where we were the only visitors in the hotel, and, as the beds very rapidly proved impossible, we women-folk confiscated the...

When walking round a beautiful park on an island in _Suomi_, the whole of which and a lovely mansion belonged to our host, he pointed with great pride to three oak trees, and sa...

The scenery of Finland is, as a rule, neither grand nor impressive. It has not the mountains of Switzerland topped with everlasting snow, nor the rocky fjords of Norway; no dear...

Every one we met in Finland told us to make a point of seeing _Punkaharju_, just as strangers in London might be advised to visit the Tower, though in this case the great show w...

As we stood on the little pier at _Rättijärvi_, waiting for the steamer which was to bear us down the beautiful _Saimen Canal_, we were somewhat horrified to find that the only...