We happen to be quite fond of palm trees. In an article in hidden europe last autumn we celebrated the wonderful displays of palms and tender plants on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. But there are occasional palm trees much further north in Europe.
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The number of Russians making cross-border journeys into northern Scandinavia to go shopping leapt by over a third last year. They head for small towns in northern Finland and some even continue into Sweden to visit the world's northernmost branch ...
