...but do you know where he lives? Everyone in Finland does - Father Christmas (or Joulupukki) lives in Finnish Lapland. On Sunday he was visiting Helsinki, though; I passed him meeting with some members of his fan club in Senate Square on my way to lunch.My Finnish friends have their Christmas presents on Christmas Eve, unlike us in the UK, where we open presents on Christmas Day (in our house, this normally starts pretty early in the morning). It must be because he starts so much closer to all the Finns, who get their deliveries before he traverses the skies over the Baltic en route for the North Sea and landfall somewhere around Harwich.
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