A couple of months back, we brought to you the spectacular geodesic cabins by Freedomes that allow guests to gaze at the Northern Lights without compromising on comfort. The company, which has been designing event domes for nearly a decade now, has recently unveiled a line of stunning, easy-to-install dome kits that are surprisingly cheap.…
Glamping, it seems, is becoming increasingly popular among recreational campers and outdoorsy folks. As its name suggests, this kind of glamorous camping aims to combine the thrill of sleeping in the wilderness with the opulence of high-end travel. Glamping has now reached Arctic Scandinavia, allowing guests to admire the mesmerizing Northern Lights from the comfort…
2015 has surely been a good year for finding treasures - be it the Fatimid gold coins or the silver decadrachms from Alexander's era. However, this time around, archaeologists may have very well come across the 'mother lode' in terms of sheer value - with researchers pinpointing the location of a shipwreck of a 15th…
Previous archaeological works have yielded more than hundred years old beer and pretzels. Well, this time around we move from 'pedestrian' to 'classy' with the analysis of 170-year old champagne from the Föglö shipwreck. Originally found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 2010, the assessment of the 'vintage' liquor (in 168 bottles) entailed…
Previously, we had talked about how loss of beer production might have reduced the influence of liquor-loving Vikings. Well, this time around, scientists were actually able to get hold of old beer specimens, though not from the early middle ages, but rather dating from the 19th century Finland. These 170-year old beers were discovered from…
Almost looking like a inverted hull of a ship, the impressive St Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel was designed by Finnish firm Sanaksenaho Architects, in one of the islands that make up the Turku archipelago. And quite interestingly, what might seem to be a visually enticing gimmick with those wildly arching facades, is presumably derived (to…