Kuopio is really one of the best cities in Finland to visit. I think that It’s one of the country’s most ”finnish cities”, from which the tourist gets a proper picture of Finland and finnish culture (unlike in Helsinki and its surroudings). Same with Tampere, Turku, Oulu and Jyväskylä, I warmly recommend these cities too. Welcome again to Finland! 😎🇫🇮✈️
Sounds like I need to visit Tempere, Oulu and Turku next time I’m in Finland :). I’d also love to go back to all these places in Summer. I did go to Jyväskylä Finland ua-cam.com/video/6vl1SIAqlRs/v-deo.html :) Helsinki is a great city. It’s just going far too international far too quickly. Much like the rest of the world.
Thank you for the video of my home town, which quite few visit and ”review”. Kuopio is (just like any other Finnish town) completely different in summertime. If you had done this in a weekend evening in July, you’d probably had totally different view, with lots of people, sunny evening and very lively athmosphere. Very well done in such a short time and challenging time of year.
I’d love to return in the summer where the days are longer and everyone is out and about. Hopefully I’ll return sometime soon and do a follow up video on Finland for those visiting in the summer months :)
Kuopio does have narrow streets (since the establisment of the city) and that makes the city grid unique in Finland. The streets are called "rännikatu". It divides the "normal size city block" into 4 smaller blocks. And the narrow streets are all pedestrian streets.
I visited Finland in June and stayed in Helsinki, Kitee and Vassa, the weather was amazing with temperatures reaching 29 and 30 degrees Celsius. I'm heading back to Helsinki this coming February and will no doubt be experiencing the temperatures that you did in this video, thanks for a very interesting and informative video, kuopio is now on my list of places to see.
Glad I could inspire you to visit despite my odd way of presenting the place. Thank you for watching and joining me on the adventure - many more adventures to come! :)
I always feel sorry for the tourists who visit Finland in Winter. Unless it's some sort of an holiday season you will struggle to find the people in towns and cities. When the season changes into spring you start to see more people and in summer it's like a completely different place. I guess Helsinki might be a bit different than Kuopio though. Btw Kuopio is both a city (town if compared to the world) and a municipality and the city area has maybe 90 to 96 thousand people and the rest of the population comes from the surrounding countryside and the small towns. Kukko mean's both Cock (the bird FYI, bodyparts have completely different words) and Rooster but I'd use the term "fish rooster" in this case because it doesn't sound as dirty.. :D Also I don't know how obvious it is, but the Kauppahalli has mostly locally or organic produced food (and other) items so the prices are tougher than on the average supermarket (where most people buy their food anyway).
Some Great insight and information it’s appreciated. Most of Europe is like that in the winter. So any European kind of expects that. Finland and Finnish people have lots of charm to make up for the cold winters.
About every second street is car-free in Kuopio. A lot of those smaller streets - if you'd have walked to the south of the market square - still have traditional wooden houses left. The space around the market square and in the direction of the train station has been getting a facelift recently.
Born and rised 20 km north from place you were. My grandma had alltime fishcock and dark rye bred on the table. It was everyday food. Now fishcock is speaciality you rarely get because I live at Helsinki..
Kuopio is the Finnish city with most water (of the 10 biggest ones), the kind of lake fjords penetrating everywhere, having some 6000 km of lakeshores! It’s probably the hilliest one too. They make it one of the most interesting what comes to the nature and landscape. It’s also very nicely maintained everywhere. If going there in May - September, get yourself a bike (preferably electrical because of hills) and just go everywhere, also and particularly outside the city center area. Bicycle roads go everywhere and follow the lake shores in many places. If going there in the mid-summer (from about May 20th to July 20th), try it in the light summer nights, you just cannot beat that atmosphere (more south e.g. in Helsinki you cannot experience this)! If going there in skiing season (from about Xmas to the end of March), try city exploring with cross country skis. The city has a trail network of about 350 km and they also go almost everywhere. In the bluebird days of springtime (from March to sometimes even mid-April) try skiing in the lake ice - it’s unbeatable experience in favorable weather. However, in late spring do it in the morning because from the noon onwards the plus degrees often soften the ice cover and make it very wet (there may still be some 70 cm of ice cover left then but interview people if uncertain)! Don’t forget lake swimming! The city has couple of really nice modern Finnish style lakeside spas with saunas. Another one of them has nice warm pools too. Unfortunately, the city center is no longer busy outside the summertime because of the big malls in the outskirts of the city. But at least nightlife and most food restaurants still are in the city center. In summertime it’s still very alive and it’s anyway the best time to visit Finland (in June-July, sometimes in May and August too).
Michael Palin too did travel to Finland. I guess he simply had to: "Michael Palin's journey in Finland - BBC" and "Neil Hardwick, Michael Palin, ja Lasse Lehtinen saunassa (1989)".
Good to see the interviews with the political parties. Disturbed to hear about vax passes - can you pass on the name of the establishment? I have never even heard of it for well over a year.
The population in Finland is about 5.5 million people compared to the UK population which is about 60 million people. geographically speaking, Finland is largest than the UK in land mass.
I got admission in UEF in kupio in medical physics with 50percent scholrship, I have apprehension that weather I can get any good job there to earn to manage my fee of 4000euro or daily expenses
I was laughing out when you called Left Alliance communists 😂 Their previous party defenetely were but when Soviet Union collapsed the funding dried out and they were out of business
I may have mixed up the name of the Fish cock and the name of the market. Correct name is in the time stamps in the description! If you appreciated this video - do give it a like & maybe if you are feeling extra generous = SUBSCRIBE to my channel! :)
Why did you go to Kuopio of all the places in Finland? It's not unique lol. I suggest to visit Porvoo or Turku or Suomenlinna, Sea fortress, in Helsinki where there are people living too, about 800. In Turku there's Turun linna, the Turku castle, and Porvoo has very beautiful townscape with lovely wooden buildings.
Each video is a learning process. 500+ videos in and I’m still experimenting with each one. Some people love the clips some people hate them. I keep persevering but appreciate you watching!
Finland is just so bland. Have you ever seen the documentary _Reindeer Spotting - Escape from Santaland?_ That docu game me nightmares. The follow-up Lost Boys was so bereft of humanity that I struggled to watch it all the way through. That these guys came from Rovaniemi and became such nihilists gives you a different impression of Finland that so many on UA-cam avoid addressing. The system tells us that Finland is the 'Happiest Country in the World' (TM) but just look at the landscape there - flat and deeply oppressive.
Finland isn’t flat. Have you spent time in the Lakeland’s? There are rolling mountains. Not huge but contours anyway you look at them. Also the Netherlands is flat but doesn’t take anything away from it. The Finnish people are special for their uniqueness and Finnish women are very quirky but in a wonderful way. Just the way I look at it :) What country are yon from? Each country has its pros and cons :)
Drug addicts aren't really happy no matter where they live. It was a document of drug addict's life. When your whole life circles around of how to acquire the next fix your life will be miserable even if you lived as a millionare on Monaco. If you think Reindeer Spotting portrays a better image of Finland, do you also think Trainspotting does the same for the UK? The latter was all acted but the idea is the same on both. Reindeer Spotting's "star character" died like a decade ago in Thailand anyway, so do you think it tells something about that country too?
Kuopio is really one of the best cities in Finland to visit. I think that It’s one of the country’s most ”finnish cities”, from which the tourist gets a proper picture of Finland and finnish culture (unlike in Helsinki and its surroudings). Same with Tampere, Turku, Oulu and Jyväskylä, I warmly recommend these cities too. Welcome again to Finland! 😎🇫🇮✈️
Sounds like I need to visit Tempere, Oulu and Turku next time I’m in Finland :). I’d also love to go back to all these places in Summer. I did go to Jyväskylä Finland
ua-cam.com/video/6vl1SIAqlRs/v-deo.html :) Helsinki is a great city. It’s just going far too international far too quickly. Much like the rest of the world.
Thank you for the video of my home town, which quite few visit and ”review”. Kuopio is (just like any other Finnish town) completely different in summertime. If you had done this in a weekend evening in July, you’d probably had totally different view, with lots of people, sunny evening and very lively athmosphere. Very well done in such a short time and challenging time of year.
I’d love to return in the summer where the days are longer and everyone is out and about. Hopefully I’ll return sometime soon and do a follow up video on Finland for those visiting in the summer months :)
Kuopio does have narrow streets (since the establisment of the city) and that makes the city grid unique in Finland. The streets are called "rännikatu". It divides the "normal size city block" into 4 smaller blocks. And the narrow streets are all pedestrian streets.
I visited Finland in June and stayed in Helsinki, Kitee and Vassa, the weather was amazing with temperatures reaching 29 and 30 degrees Celsius. I'm heading back to Helsinki this coming February and will no doubt be experiencing the temperatures that you did in this video, thanks for a very interesting and informative video, kuopio is now on my list of places to see.
Glad I could inspire you to visit despite my odd way of presenting the place. Thank you for watching and joining me on the adventure - many more adventures to come! :)
Really enjoyed your interactions with the politicians
I hope they did also!
I always feel sorry for the tourists who visit Finland in Winter. Unless it's some sort of an holiday season you will struggle to find the people in towns and cities. When the season changes into spring you start to see more people and in summer it's like a completely different place. I guess Helsinki might be a bit different than Kuopio though.
Btw Kuopio is both a city (town if compared to the world) and a municipality and the city area has maybe 90 to 96 thousand people and the rest of the population comes from the surrounding countryside and the small towns. Kukko mean's both Cock (the bird FYI, bodyparts have completely different words) and Rooster but I'd use the term "fish rooster" in this case because it doesn't sound as dirty.. :D Also I don't know how obvious it is, but the Kauppahalli has mostly locally or organic produced food (and other) items so the prices are tougher than on the average supermarket (where most people buy their food anyway).
Some Great insight and information it’s appreciated. Most of Europe is like that in the winter. So any European kind of expects that. Finland and Finnish people have lots of charm to make up for the cold winters.
About every second street is car-free in Kuopio. A lot of those smaller streets - if you'd have walked to the south of the market square - still have traditional wooden houses left. The space around the market square and in the direction of the train station has been getting a facelift recently.
Born and rised 20 km north from place you were. My grandma had alltime fishcock and dark rye bred on the table. It was everyday food. Now fishcock is speaciality you rarely get because I live at Helsinki..
I hope it survives the changes Finland will go through in the coming decades. It’s good to keep traditions alive :)
Kuopio is the Finnish city with most water (of the 10 biggest ones), the kind of lake fjords penetrating everywhere, having some 6000 km of lakeshores! It’s probably the hilliest one too. They make it one of the most interesting what comes to the nature and landscape. It’s also very nicely maintained everywhere.
If going there in May - September, get yourself a bike (preferably electrical because of hills) and just go everywhere, also and particularly outside the city center area. Bicycle roads go everywhere and follow the lake shores in many places. If going there in the mid-summer (from about May 20th to July 20th), try it in the light summer nights, you just cannot beat that atmosphere (more south e.g. in Helsinki you cannot experience this)!
If going there in skiing season (from about Xmas to the end of March), try city exploring with cross country skis. The city has a trail network of about 350 km and they also go almost everywhere. In the bluebird days of springtime (from March to sometimes even mid-April) try skiing in the lake ice - it’s unbeatable experience in favorable weather. However, in late spring do it in the morning because from the noon onwards the plus degrees often soften the ice cover and make it very wet (there may still be some 70 cm of ice cover left then but interview people if uncertain)!
Don’t forget lake swimming! The city has couple of really nice modern Finnish style lakeside spas with saunas. Another one of them has nice warm pools too.
Unfortunately, the city center is no longer busy outside the summertime because of the big malls in the outskirts of the city. But at least nightlife and most food restaurants still are in the city center. In summertime it’s still very alive and it’s anyway the best time to visit Finland (in June-July, sometimes in May and August too).
Great video Alex
Cheers Oliver :)
Really great video!
Michael Palin too did travel to Finland. I guess he simply had to: "Michael Palin's journey in Finland - BBC" and "Neil Hardwick, Michael Palin, ja Lasse Lehtinen saunassa (1989)".
For he was one of Britains greatest travel men :)
В Куопио живут прекрасные люди, добрые и отзывчивые
Good to see the interviews with the political parties. Disturbed to hear about vax passes - can you pass on the name of the establishment? I have never even heard of it for well over a year.
The name ?
The population in Finland is about 5.5 million people compared to the UK population which is about 60 million people. geographically speaking, Finland is largest than the UK in land mass.
Indeed. Those lucky Finns!
I got admission in UEF in kupio in medical physics with 50percent scholrship, I have apprehension that weather I can get any good job there to earn to manage my fee of 4000euro or daily expenses
39:50 Irwin Goodman-Ryysyranta
I was laughing out when you called Left Alliance communists 😂
Their previous party defenetely were but when Soviet Union collapsed the funding dried out and they were out of business
I may have mixed up the name of the Fish cock and the name of the market. Correct name is in the time stamps in the description! If you appreciated this video - do give it a like & maybe if you are feeling extra generous = SUBSCRIBE to my channel! :)
He said 98% rye
Finnish eggs hey... 🤣
Why did you go to Kuopio of all the places in Finland? It's not unique lol. I suggest to visit Porvoo or Turku or Suomenlinna, Sea fortress, in Helsinki where there are people living too, about 800. In Turku there's Turun linna, the Turku castle, and Porvoo has very beautiful townscape with lovely wooden buildings.
Each city, town and village is unique. My channel features places all over Europe (mostly). I think each place has a story to tell.
That's why we are delayed from our deployment in Finland.. Probably because of the Healthcare Service Election..
My ex was from there… oh well, I remember the guy who cheated on me.
Hey dude the video would be way not enjoyable without those unnecessary video memes
The video is actually enjoyable and good but getting a movie scene video for every word u say is annoying
Each video is a learning process. 500+ videos in and I’m still experimenting with each one. Some people love the clips some people hate them. I keep persevering but appreciate you watching!
Finland is just so bland. Have you ever seen the documentary _Reindeer Spotting - Escape from Santaland?_ That docu game me nightmares. The follow-up Lost Boys was so bereft of humanity that I struggled to watch it all the way through. That these guys came from Rovaniemi and became such nihilists gives you a different impression of Finland that so many on UA-cam avoid addressing. The system tells us that Finland is the 'Happiest Country in the World' (TM) but just look at the landscape there - flat and deeply oppressive.
Oh, and Finnish birds are just so weird.
Finland isn’t flat. Have you spent time in the Lakeland’s? There are rolling mountains. Not huge but contours anyway you look at them. Also the Netherlands is flat but doesn’t take anything away from it. The Finnish people are special for their uniqueness and Finnish women are very quirky but in a wonderful way. Just the way I look at it :)
What country are yon from? Each country has its pros and cons :)
Drug addicts aren't really happy no matter where they live. It was a document of drug addict's life. When your whole life circles around of how to acquire the next fix your life will be miserable even if you lived as a millionare on Monaco. If you think Reindeer Spotting portrays a better image of Finland, do you also think Trainspotting does the same for the UK? The latter was all acted but the idea is the same on both. Reindeer Spotting's "star character" died like a decade ago in Thailand anyway, so do you think it tells something about that country too?
@@TheWonderingEnglishman "quirky". LOL!
@@Ghostiification He took his life in Cambodia, actually. I don't even understand the rest of your comment...
*What was the point in even writing it?*