The Helsinki, Finland Experience 🇫🇮 | Solo Travel Vlog
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Embark on a sensory journey through Helsinki, Finland in my latest solo travel vlog and guide! Join me on my Helsinki adventure as I explore the sights, sounds, tastes, feels, and smells of the snowy, warmhearted, sauna-loving Finnish capital city.
We'll experience some of the best places to visit in Helsinki's historic city center, dive into the foods you can't miss, explore some hidden gems away from the heart of town, and immerse ourselves in the atmosphere that makes up Finland’s winter wonderland of a capital.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:02 Experiencing Centrum
10:01 The Sometimes Green Helsinki
12:16 Experiencing Finnish Culture
17:36 The Tastes of Finland
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As a citizen of Helsinki I can say this is one of the best Helsinki videos I've seen. Thank you for visiting us! It's a bit different now when it's 27°C (80,6°F) and only sunshine days on end.
Thanks so much, this is a truly great compliment! I will definitely have to return one day in the summer. I was in Oslo, Norway this time last summer and it was quite warm, and I was determined to see some Nordic snow this time around
wow amazing place! I can't wait to visit this!
The round architecture at 17:29 is actually a beautiful chapel where you can go and find some peace and calm before rushing home after work. People pop in for a few minutes (it is a Christian chapel, but really meant for everyone).
I really wanted to pop inside but every time I was nearby it was closed :(
I first came across your vlog yesterday with your Oslo episode. So, I have decided to stay in the "neighborhood" so to speak with the Helsinki vlog. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I hope you enjoyed both! I found a lot of similarities between Oslo and Helsinki funnily enough
Wow! This is awesome Mike!
Thank you! This was probably the vlog I was the most excited to share this year. Helsinki was amazing
It's actually rice pudding in the karjalanpiirakka and egg-butter on top. Usually the ketchup goes in the meatpie
Oh interesting! That would not have been my first guess. Those things were delicious
@@asenseoftravel you can get them with potatomash too. Karelian pies are sometimes called rice pies
Lonkero was actually developed for the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 by Hartwall. It seems that now other companies can make it as well in a variety of flavours. There is also the non-alcoholic version.
Oh interesting! I didn't realize it was such a new invention. I had way too many haha. Lonkero is delicious. Is it normal to drink with ice, even in the winter?
Thanks for visiting! You're also very cute! ♥
Finland:) Thank you for the awesome videos as always!
And thank you for watching them!
Just stumbled upon your UA-cam page by accident! Really good stuff! Safe travels!!
Thank you! Happy to have ya here!
Little bit gloomy there at that time of the year. Summertime everything just looks so much better. I haven´t visited Helsinki since 2000. It seems more calm than what the city were at 90s and 2000. At that time there were people everywhere and for me as small city recident that was way too crowded place. Maybe i should make new visit there now 24 years later.
I live now in the city of Tampere here in Finland. I have always liked Tampere more than Helsinki. Some UA-camrs/travellers that has camed to Tampere have been amazed from the city and have liked more than Helsinki. Can´t deny that.
I'll have to check out Tampere next time I make it to Finland! I always go for the capitals during my first visit to a country, just because that tends to be the "epicenter" of said country, but it's the smaller towns that hold the most charm and soul
Let it snowwwwwww bro
I wouldn't have had it any other way!
Cool 🎉😊
Very! ☃️
Awesome video, pal! Loved your narrative. It’s so informative and helpful for any person. I will be visiting the city at the beginning of July. You got a new subscriber!
Thank you! I imagine you'll have a much different experience than mine weather-wise haha.
Love your channel and your detailed ( all senses perspective) on the cities you’ve visited. I’ve been to a few that you’ve posted videos about and I’m kicking myself wishing I’d seen your videos prior to my travels. lol fortunately I’m going to Helsinki this fall so thanks for the preview!
Thank you! Which ones have you been to?
@@asenseoftravel Most of the usual Western European... London, Paris, all over Spain, Denmark, Sweden (not Norway or Fin. yet).. , Italy....Germany, Netherlands...still so much more to see though.. Central / Eastern Europe!
Safe travels! I found a lot of similarities between Norway and Finland in terms of the overall vibe, so I'm sure you'll enjoy them - I also can't recommend Prague enough
What a beautiful and peaceful place to visit!
Yes it was!
Loved this❤️🇫🇮
Thank you!!
Can't help but to chuckle a bit at calling the center of Helsinki "the old town" as Helsinki is a relatively new city in general. (At least compared to the old towns in many other capitals in the area.)
Oh and btw, just to clarify, "Centrum" is not a name for "the old town" it's just "Center" in Swedish.
Good to know on "Centrum!"
I understand that sentiment for sure. Here in the US, 100 years old is considered antique. Most of our "historic downtowns" were built out in the 1900s.
You should be here now! It´s like very hot. Nice vid!
Oh I bet! I was in Oslo around this time last year and I was shocked by how warm it was
@Austrian_Painters_TopGuy Yeah....bit too much.
Helsinki is actually huge if u count the metropolian area. From otherside to other its actually big. Most of the city is just behind the treelines so u cant see it from center
I understand that for sure! I usually do go by metro areas (I live in Washington, DC which has less than a million people, but the metro area has over 6 million so I know what you mean) but I did appreciate how remote and manageable Helsinki by itself felt
Centrum is the Swedish word for city centre, keskusta in Finnish 😁
I kept seeing "Centrum" on the signs, so this is good to know!
@@asenseoftravel yeah almost all the signs are both in Finnish and Swedish in Southern part of Finland, since Swedish is our second official language
The coldest country in the World.
Well Iceland has crap weather the whole year round but everyo other country is closer to the Equator.
I personally prefer the cold over the heat! You can always add layers but you can only take so many off lol
Nice one! When are you going to Poland?
Hopefully soon! It's definitely on the bucket list. I spent some time in Lithuania earlier this year and it made me super intrigued to visit Poland as soon as I can!
Yep, never pass the divine salmon soup.
Truly. Finland in general has some of the best food in all of Northern Europe in my opinion
@14:25 Sorry but there's no Castle Of Finland in Suomenlinna. There's no Castle Of Finland at all. No castles in Helsinki. The most well known castles in Finland are Turun linna, Olavinlinna, Hämeen linna and Kastelhoms slott.
Interesting! All of signage on the island referenced the "Castle of Finland" so that's what I was going off of
@@asenseoftravel Suomenlinna (Viapori, Sveaborg) is fortress. After Sweden lost Russo-Swedish War 1743 they started to build Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) in 1708 for strenghtening Finland's defens. At the beginning of Finnish War between Sweden and Russia in 1809, Russia conquered Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) and when Russia won the war in the same year, Russia continued to build Suomenlinna for their own purposes. There was never a castle, just a fortress. Maybe the name Suomenlinna is translated "Castle of Finland" (I don't remember the signs, I haven't been there for awhile) but it really isn't a castle. I think that translation is misleading and it should be "The fortress of Finland".
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You take lot of time editing perhaps, now it's like +26c
My trip to Helsinki was in April, yes!
@@asenseoftravel And the weather changed literally in a day or so to be really warm and sunny!