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Surviving November in Finland Like a Local
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2022
- November in Finnish is Marraskuu. Literally translated as DEAD MONTH. Some say it's the worst time to visit Finland, with miserably short days and freezing rain. Let's prove them wrong, and discover unique activities in Finland's 5th largest town, Oulu.
This video answers all these questions, and more:
What can you do inside when it's -5 °C outside?
How do Finns find affordable winter clothing?
When the sun sets at 14:55, how do Finns light up the outside?
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Please, minus five is nothing - on the contrary, that is the perfect winter temperature!
That's perfect summer weather
You guys forgot to factor in the so lovely moist winds of coastal cities. Still beats, -20 in those conditions.
@@Jaegerrants That is normally true, but compared to e.g. Copenhagen, Finnish coastal cities are a lot less humid. I am from Helsinki but the only places where I have lived and felt really cold is Denmark and England, and that was because of the humidity. You simply cannot protect yourself against it!
-5'C that's tropical, it was - 22'C a couple of weeks later. Today was +4'C (global warming)
@@toinenosoite3173 But then again, you're from Helsinki. What do you know about cold?
I really enjoyed this show of Oulu, Finland. I was born in Finland in 1954, and lived in Oulu until the age of 5 when migrating to Australia with my family. I still have many relatives in Patijoki in Oulu. Many thanks. Pirkko from Queensland Australia
Robert Monds hey...
A pretty good look at Finland on a normal November day
It's called a flea market: kirpputori in Finnish.
Loved this video! Thank you so much! You have a wonderful mentality of making the most out of any situation. Thank you also for appreciating a healthy diet rich with whole plant based foods and recycling old gear. There is beauty in the contrast between darkness and light, and we sure do have plenty of that here in Finland.
I really enjoyed watching your video. You captured real Fin at the right time. ^^ This is exactly what I’m holding memories in my heart. I went to school in Finland which was already +20 yrs ago. I got a real deep nostalgia about this humble country. Thank you so much
Pronunciation tip for the English-speaking:
Oulu is pronounced in Finland roughly like ”Oh, loo!” (as in, Look, a toilet😉👍🏻)
It seems summer has arrived early to Oulu
Oulu seems a nice town. Those wooden houses are cute. I am a Finn, but I do not usually travel so north. I live in southern Finland, Helsinki area.
Hey Toni. I went to Helsinki after. There was a lot of snow when I visited in dead month. 😉
@@tomgoesnomad Not everyone knows marraskuu means death month. Some may be just thinking wtf are you talking about lol
I've been overwhelmed by the response to this video. Thanks for watching! I'd love to go back to Finland, but where should I visit next?
Syöte - I rent out a cabin there. The skiing is good, and so is the forest, hiking or mountain biking at midnight getting a sun tan
Try Vaasa - it's cute!
You chose quite a dreary time to visit Finland :) November in finnish is marraskuu. Marras is an ancient word for death, dying, spirits of the dead...
I recommend Lapland in the first months of the year or second week of September, if you like nature. Not Rovaniemi, go up North.
Or the archipelago around Turku during the warm time. Or lake Finland in the East. In the South, Porvoo is a cute little town with wooden houses. Also Rauma on the west coast, the old town. There are many nice places, but November in Finland is something we Finns just have to endure somehow, no good time to come for a visit.
For the wooden buildings, Porvoo is a must! The countryside in the Lakeland region is 5/5 as well but harder to appreciate without a local host (a proper sauna should be a part of the deal) and in mid summer of course ;)
@@lokkikissa January an February are by far the coldest tho.
That light festival really was worth seeing. It was just -5 C but as it was November and one of the first frozen weeks, it felt a lot colder than that. I loved the video installation inside the Oulu Cathedral and the ones at the city library. The light festival has been growing each year and I'm already waiting for this year's installation.
Thank you, I enjoyed the video! Even though it was dark and chilly here in Finland during your visit, you found lots of positive things about Oulu. Please don't worry about the pronunciation, seems petty to me to go on about that.
Yep .But temperature gets down to -20 degree Celsius or lower.
Please, ask somebody local to pronounce the name of the city of Oulu correctly, for the viewers.
2:46 love going to thrift stores, ive bought so many old PC games it's insane. Sort of sucks that retro video games are often quite overpriced, making it often not worth buying them the few times you find them. Outside of a few rare exceptions (big box versions of classic pc games), pc games are very cheap (they go for 5Kr to 25kr or roughly 50 cents to 2.50$). Used to frequent the many thrift stores we have in my Swedish town, now not so much (health issues).
Lived in Oulu for a short while, people there I found wonderful,I'd go back tomorrow,good video
In Finland death month is from September to may.
Hey have a great year23! Nice you are here in dark winter time
Also, not Yy-loo, but OH-lu.
It isn't Baltic sea either, it's Bothnian bay
november is especially tough because you know you have 3-4, even 5 months of cold months ahead of you, the only thing you're excited for during these times is christmas and skiing...
We are used to the cold here in north Idaho. Last November, we experienced minus 15F, and other days of subzero temps. But those are cold snaps, lasting only a few days. As I write this, we are about to plunge back into single digits for a few days. No subzero if we are lucky. But it is no big deal. You just dress for it. Finland in the winter sounds quite pleasant.
@@WardDorrity Idaho, nice. I would be really interested to visit USA's western states, so beautiful there. I personally don't mind winter, but most people here dislike it because of the darkness and cold. The big contrast to the warm summers with 24 hour sunlight makes it seem worse than it really is. November is definitely the worst month in Finland though, it's just an empty, dull, quite useless month. You guys atleast have Thanksgiving at that time lol.
@@sqb_ You will find a lot of friendly folks here in the inland Northwest. Please visit if you ever get the chance. We live in Oldtown, Idaho, and there are places where you can see the mountains of Western Montana on a clear day. Hoodoo mountain (so named for the old Indian graveyard in the area) is easily visible from our front yard. Traveling Hwy 2 into Montana can be a religious experience, it is so beautiful. If you ever get the chance, look us up and we'll have beer and steaks on the back deck.
@@WardDorrity January and February are the coldest months in Finland and in Lapland it can get to -40 to -50C°.
@@sautari7474 Now that is chilly. I would be inclined to stay a little closer to the woodstove. So would our cats.
I wouldn't say that Finland is that cold, sure we occacionally have very low temperatures, but the average winter temperatures in population centers are not cold.
If we took the average winter temperate of countries, Finland is one of the colder places in the EU, but nothing compared to Russia.
It's not Öyly, il's Oulu :wide and clear! 👋
"What can you do inside when it's -5 °C outside?" = anything. "How do Finns find affordable winter clothing?" Remember three names: Halpahalli, Tokmanni and when there are discount sales, probably also Dressman. "When the sun sets at 14:55, how do Finns light up the outside?". Just press the button in your houses entrance/atrium and your doorstep light lits up.
this is great 👌
SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE! 🇫🇮 🇫🇮🇫🇮
Yylyy :D
you should have visited in the summer for the tori. that's the only redeeming thing about this town.
you abducted Spiderman's aunt!
At 5:00 there is a gap between the bank and the pier. Is the pier movable?
Oh yeah! Maybe it's for the changing water level?
Hope you brought a bo'a of wa'a coz that's a necessary feature of you Englishmen.
I live in Oulu
It doesn't sound like "Ooloo", but like "Owloo". It's kind of respectful - to know how local names and places are pronounced.
"O' Loo" 😄 I don't know. It sounds just right for Oulu.
I visited Finland. I went to the O-loo.
It's not Owloo. It's Oulu. You don't pronounce things differently than you write them in Finnish
You just need to learn The Finnish alphabet - to say names right ! Letters like A & E & I - are said totally different to English !
Finnish can be hard for english-speakers. It's not like finnish people can pronounce all english words well either.
@@Taiga300 They just say their - alphabet differently !
It would've been even more authentic if you were in some of the little depressing rural villages in Finland
Smallest place I went to so far was Kokkola. Haven't been to any villages yet. What makes them depressing?
@@tomgoesnomad the teenager's drive tractors as the "pimp my ride"
It is beautiful there but much too cold climate for me.
Your testicles will shrink and your penis will retreat.
Many say the same - and I Dont blame them ! This weather IS like Alaska - without polar bears ! Ice hockey IS at World level & many NHL PLAYERS are from Oulu !
ulu :D
so you're going to take excessive amount of drugs and alcohol? because thats what i do and im a local
Go to pori
Pori has an World CLASS Hockey Team called ÄSSÄT ( ACES at London ) ! Most Finnish NHL PLAYERS are just from Pori !
@@holoholopainen1627 if you are in Pori go have a beer in the Beer Hunters Bar on the square they sell great beer including very tasty Karhu 🍺🍺🍺🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️
Did You ask any local - How to say OULU ? You must know English to know what Town were You visiting ! You almost said like Joulu - that means Xmas !
Hi Holo. I stayed with a local while I was in Oulu, so have no excuses! I pinky promise that when I go back and make video #2 I'll say OULU and not Oulu!
@@tomgoesnomad You said Uulu
Ouukeii! Why don't you try to spell out loud O U L U because that's how its pronounced. Yyly is not an option, please. O U like you are surprized.. oh! And L U like two first letters spelled in lubricant. OU-LU. There you go!!
too bad there are no trees left anywhere thanks government
Gosh that looks depressive 😅
Have You ever heard of Winter Olympics ? They need to train their skills - at winter !
Not as much the "Dead Month", rather "the month of the dead/dying". Anyways... whatev's
Well Oulu is nice in November. Helsinki is s*it.
many airlines have stopped flying to Helsinki
That's not even close to how you're supposed to pronounce Oulu
How do you pronounce Oulu?
@@gstevens6948 Oh lu
@@gstevens6948 ua-cam.com/video/T6H_92i8l1Y/v-deo.html
This guy gets it almost right
@@kasperilindroos2370 I mean... it's pretty close. and it's not pronounced oh lu. it's oulu
Sounds like Yylyy.
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