FINLAND
Maria’s Day Festival is an annual sámi cultural event in Enontekiö, Lapland.
The program includes church services, reindeer racing and lassoing competition and the sale exhibition of Sámi handicraft. There are also opportunities for becoming acquainted with various cultural events, sámi theater and concerts of sámi traditional and modern music. March 20-22. For more information please
click here.
Finland Ice Marathon
is a fun-filled international winter event on the magnificent lake-ice track of Kuopio on February 18-21 that attracts thousands of participants to many of its events during four days. 50 km (21miles ) tour skating with poles is a new event. The shorter recreational skating distance is 12.5km (7.7 miles), which is a tradition of the Finland Ice Marathon. There is also Finnish Championships in 100km (62 miles) kick-sledding. For more information please click here.
ICELAND 
The New York Times Picks Reykjavik Iceland as one of The 44 Places to go in 2009. It’s a big world out there. But around the globe there are just 44 places that the New York Times recommends people visit in 2009. Iceland is one of them, registering at number 31. Roundtrip fares are $400-$499 and the exchange rate is at record lows, meaning your dollar goes almost twice as far. Take a look.
Peter Greenberg picks Iceland!
Emmy award-winning writer and producer Peter Greenberg, travel editor for NBC’s Today Show, CNBC and MSNBC, knows a thing or two about where to spend your travel dollar. On New Year’s Day, during a Today Show segment about New Year’s Travel Resolutions with Al Roker, Iceland was Greenberg’s number two choice for travel in 2009, next to Mexico. He considers Iceland a great travel bargain (and, we might add, less chance of suffering from Montezuma’s Revenge).
See the segment here.
NORWAY 
Oslo Pass Celebrates 25 years
In 1984 the Oslo Pass was launched as one of the very first city cards in Europe. With the slogan “Save Time and Money”, the card offers free entrance to 35 museums, free public transportation, free parking in municipal car parks all over the city, free guided walks, free entry to swimming pools and special offers in restaurants, shops, entertainment and leisure venues. The Oslo Pass is available at tourist information centres, hotels, camping sites. For more information click
HERE.
Fly Icelandair to Norway
Travel with Icelandair to Oslo - the City of Contrasts, and Bergen - Gateway to the fjords, this season. With a stopover in Iceland, this is your chance to experience the land known for the Midnight Sun, the Northern lights and the World Famous Fjords, on your way to or from Norway. Icelandair offer great deals year round, where you can combine one, or both Norwegian cities with a stop in Iceland. For more info click
here.
SWEDEN
Welcome to Sweden and Stockholm
The Stockholm Card is offering a thorough selection of the best that Stockholm has to offer in terms of attractions and sights. It gives you free entry to 75 museums and attractions, free travel by public transportation, free sightseeing by boat,
and more. Image: Liljevalchs Art Hall, Stockholm hotographer and Copyright: Joakim Bergstrom
www.imagebank.sweden.se
New restaurants join “Taste of West Sweden”
Nine new restaurants have joined Taste of Sweden, a collection of more than 30 eateries across Gothenburg and the region. It recognizes high quality cuisine and the use of fine, seasonal ingredients from eco-friendly local suppliers.
http://www.westsweden.com /
http://www.goteborg.com Image: Gothenburg archipelago in winter. Photographer: Kjell Holmner Copyright: Kjell Holmner/Goteborg & Company www.imagebank.sweden.se
DENMARK
Great offers on Copenhagen packages with Icelandair
For an affordable “spring break” out of the ordinary: Fly with Icelandair to Copenhagen where modern design and a contemporary lifestyle meets thousands of years of history and culture. Travel from Boston or New York-JFK to Copenhagen, with 2 nights hotel, and daily breakfast. Plus, stopover in Iceland for up to 4 nights at no additional airfare! Packages are available from just $599* pp double.
Book now at Icelandair. *Terms and conditions apply.
Read more about Copenhagen.
Scandinavia’s largest flea market for collectors
Looking for something unique at a good price? Copenhagen's Bella Centre attracts bargain hunters from all over the country for its
annual flea market which is Scandinavia’s largest flea market for collectors. Browse through second-hand books, suits, designer vintage clothing, furniture, ceramics and much more (March 14-15). From mid April, meet the locals at one of
Copenhagen’s open-air flee markets, antiques or arts and crafts markets. Photo: BC-Photo/Claus Starup.