Abandoned at birth, I grew up in Romanian orphanages. Today I lead Eastern Europe’s largest Christian music festival.

There's no doubt the idea of spending a white Christmas in the northern hemisphere is something that has intrigued most ...

Leading Nordic airline, Finnair, has unveiled its record-breaking schedule to Finnish Lapland this coming winter, as it ...

The Official Airline of Santa Claus has boosted its scheduled flights to Finnish Lapland, offering 179 weekly flights to the home of Father Christmas as British passenger demand booms.

they are not entirely sure what Christmas is. 'Maybe it's like [Chinese] New Year for foreigners,' said 19-year-old Wei, a worker who came to Yiwu from rural Guizhou province in 2014, speaking to ...

The couple said the four hour experience "completely immerses" families in the belief of Father Christmas. Children receive and invitation to Lapland from Father Christmas requesting their help in ...

Just like at the Ascot forest venue, families can help elves in the toy factory make gifts for Father Christmas’ Sleigh, decorate gingerbread with Mother Christmas, ice-skate on a frozen pond ...

Bosses say visitors can expect to "picture Lapland" at the event - "a snowy ... including assisting the Toy Factory Elves to make a toy for Father Christmas’ Sleigh, decorating gingerbread ...

In much of Western Europe, like France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the UK, it's Father Christmas who delivers ... their workshop in the North Pole or Lapland and their team of elves.

It commemorated an occasion I do not remember: my first Christmas, when my Jewish father and Catholic mother, newly married, were too broke to buy me anything else. By the time I can remember ...

Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, leaves to his long Christmas journey from the Santa's Village at the Arctic Circle 30 things Americans consider normal but no one else understands ...

How has Lapland, the northernmost region of Finland, become a global hub for the Christmas economy? Known as the official home of Father Christmas, Lapland attracts hundreds of thousands of ...