TAMPERE FINLAND Revisited | Why You Need a Second Day!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- TAMPERE, FINLAND: Exploring the Pyynikki & Pispala neighbourhoods & the world’s highest esker on an eventful day in Tampere. Join me for an alternative tour of the city!
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With sandy beaches, hillside parks & mediaeval towers so close to the city centre it’s easy to understand why you need a second day in Tampere. With that in mind I hired an electric scooter & headed towards the wonderful areas of Pyynikki & Pispala hoping to see another side of the city. It was a stunning winter’s day with bright blue skies and little wind.
My day started on a rocky outcrop close to Pyynikin Uimaranta - a beautiful beach overlooking the islands south of Tampere. From there I hired a Voi Electric Scooter and headed into the Pyynikki Nature Reserve which is situated on Pyynikki Esker - one of the highest and longest ridges in the world. The area was so relaxing and peaceful with well kept trails and lots of families out enjoying the winter’s sun.
After an exhausting climb to the top of the ridge I stopped for a well deserved rest at the Observation Tower which is where I found a small coffee shop serving hot drinks and doughnuts. I couldn’t resist the smell so popped inside for a well earned snack - just what I needed. Next I climbed the observation tower and caught a spectacular view across the ridge and over the city - definitely a place that has my support for the best view in Tampere!
My next stop was the neighbourhood of Pispala with its old wooden houses and magnificent views either side of the ridge. A little further along I came across an old Shot Tower that was once used in the production of shot balls. They're not made this way any more so the tower is now closed and stands as a reminder of the area's industrial past. A thoroughly enjoyable day in Tampere and one that convinced me that you need two days in the city to see it properly.
📖 CHAPTERS:
📖 00:00 Intro & Tampere Beach Scene
📖 01:50 Scooters in Tampere
📖 04:35 Pyynikki Nature Reserve
📖 05:34 Pyynikki Ridge (Esker)
📖 06:00 Pyynikki Observation Tower (Coffee & Doughnut)
📖 10:30 Pispala Neighbourhood
📖 12:06 Pispala Shot Tower
📖 13:00 Floating Sauna
📖 13:42 What I Think Of Tampere!
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Great to see you enjoying my home town! I feel like it's often overlooked by tourist even though it's in my (biased) opinion, the best city in terms of liveability and scenery in Finland. Tampere is actually also the fastest growing city in Finland.
Fantastic footage as well, I think you really captured the essence of the city. Good luck on your future travels!
Thanks very much, Luukas. I think you're right about the city being underrated, got a feeling that tourism will go from strength to strength when the travel situation improves in Europe. Glad you like the footage and I'm pleased I could do it a little bit of justice. 😀
Tampere is a lovely place.
Yay I saw my house in Pispala 😄 prettiest neighborhood, and I'm not biased at all 😂
Haha cool that I got your house in the video! I would agree that it's the prettiest neighbourhood!! 😀🇫🇮
Enjoying to watch your videos, great information, thank you Matt , Tampere looks fabulous, been there visiting, but that was a long ago..have a lovely day , take care 🇫🇮☕🍩👍😊❤
Glad you enjoyed it 👍 It was a city I hadn't heard of until about a month before. At the time (due to COVID) there were cheap flights almost everywhere but I'm glad I chose Tampere.
@@MattWhitingsEuropeyou have done so beautiful video, your finnish pronunciation is great 👍thank you Matt , you are amazing person and Love to watch your videos , listening to your information ..❤🇫🇮
@@MattWhitingsEurope much Love to your journey from me❤❤❤❤❤
Congrats on the success of this Finland Series! You deserve it! We have yet to order one of those scooters, but looks pretty straight forward with the app. We love a good doughnut. First you DIDN'T Cliff Dive and now you DIDN'T repel down the tower. We expect some high risk 😂The houses of Pispala are so bright and colorful!
Thanks very much, it's certainly been a good few weeks for the channel and for that I'm grateful. I think I'm going to have to step up the danger level on these vlogs 😂. You've got to get a scooter if you get the chance, they're a lot of fun to ride and pretty quick too! That's about as dangerous as I get at the moment. 😬
LOVED the scooters. 100% doing them if/when I make it over there. So nice to be riding them through nature too! You made it up the tower at the perfect time with the glow of the sun going down. The sauna boats look fab - when done, you can jump straight in the water - genius! Looking forward to finding out where your next adventure is!
The scooters really were a lot of fun!! They also made getting around a whole lot easier and quicker - I wouldn't have seen everything I wanted to by foot, it would have just been a bit too much. My European adventure will definitely continue next week, sad to say goodbye to Finland (for the time being at least!).
Stunning video! A bit of everything there - nature, urban environment, culture, fun things to do. I've never been to Finland but looking at it, it reminds me of our Karelia, near St-Petersburg.
That's interesting, Olga. It really is a fun city to visit, hopefully you make it to Finland at some point! Karelia looks like an interesting region of Russia, would you recommend visiting?
Karelia and St. Petersburg were Finnish before the war ...
@@mko4352 I actually didn't realise that about St. Petersburg - thanks for the information.
@@mko4352 The city of St. Petersburg itself, of course, has never been Finnish. Simply because it was built by Russia, on the orders of Peter the Great. The current city is located on the lands of the so-called Ingria
Finland is in my list and this place is beautiful . your jacket tells me this place is collllddd
Yeah definitely, it was very cold. Gets a lot colder though, so I think I got off lightly. Hope you make it there someday, it's well worth a visit! Thanks for checking out my video!
It’s warm or even hot in the summer
there was a great civil war memorial at the pispala ridge neighbourhood that you missed, its in a little park along the same road you walked.
its at 11:25 at the left top side, its like a small obelisk.
Ah yes I see it! Strangely enough that's the park I was standing in when flying the drone, if you look carefully you can see me a little further along trying to maintain a line of sight with the drone. I think I may have walked along and looked at the memorial but didn't film it. I can't remember why. Thanks for the information about it!
hey , thanks for making this video . many of my friends live there but they don't have the ability to shoot videos like this . so I always wondered how this city looks really . from your video I got a clear idea about the city and the location . please make more videos like this 👍
Thanks Opu, glad I could help you visualise the city! Thanks for watching!!
This is a great channel, keep up the good work
Thank you very much!
It is fantastic, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching, Lenita! Glad you enjoyed it!
My old aluminium truss mast is visible in 9:26 just next to the observation tower on the left side. I sold it to Tampere amateur radio club years ago. The club is located in that same building and I can see that the club members have installed some multi band yagi antennas onto that mast.
Ah yes I see it! Good to know it's still in service! 👍
Great video again, i hope you come back someday!
Thank you Janne, glad you enjoyed the video. I will definitely be back in Finland at some point, there's so much more to see. I've got a feeling I only just scratched the surface!
great videos and absolutely stunning background music!!!!! great job!!!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Great Video, it`s great that you`ve managed to delve into history data.
Thank you Veli-Mattim I'm glad you like the video. Thanks for watching!
the drone is amazing
Thank you, had it since around February 2018 so it's done me well.
Tampere! Good that you had a nice time in here :) best city in Finland
Thanks, really enjoyed my trip! Definitely a great city 😀
soooooo pretty ugh dreamscape
Totally agree - wonderful city!
Next time you should check out another site of the lake, Kauppi which is also near of center. You can take bus number 2, scooter or walk(20minutes) to Lapinniemi and walk from there to Kauppi. There is 2 nice saunas: Rauhaniemen and Kaupinojan which you could also test out. You should do this at summer :)
Thanks for the information Arttu, sounds like a cool place. Looking at the map it's on the east side of the river right?
@@MattWhitingsEurope Yeah, north-east from the river.
Thanks for you videos. I’m from Brazil and I love you videos . 🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
Thanks for watching! Glad you're enjoying the videos. Hope all is good in Brazil!
2 k's In Pyynikki. And on I on the end of Tampere. Super nice places those. Love to hike there with our family, even though we live over 100kms away.
Thanks suomenpresidentti, did I spell it wrong somewhere? Thanks for the information. Lovely area for hiking, you must really enjoy it to drive down over 100km? Thanks for watching the video!
Again great video for City were im from
Thank you Oliver, glad you like it!
Not many people know this, but Pispala is the center of the world.
I suspected as much...
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Cool that you had time for another day here. It was also more clearer weather for a change which was nice. BTW What model drone you're using? Planning to buy one too.
Yes it was a beautiful day weather wise, cold but bright! The drone is a little Mavic Air that I bought in 2018, it fits easily in my backpack and flies for about 20 minutes on a charge (I have two batteries). It shoots 4K although I tend to only use HD and although the camera is tiny the footage really packs a punch. I think there's a newer version of the drone now - the Mavic Air 2 although I haven't really read any reviews. Hope that helps and thanks for watching!
@@MattWhitingsEurope Thanks about info of your drone. I have thought about buying Mavic Mini.. It wouldn't be such a big deal if I lost it somehow. Looking forward where you are heading next! Also hope for everyone that restrictions will ease as we are going on this year.
I'm with you there, let's hope travel gets back to normal soon, there are definitely encouraging signs so I'll keep my fingers crossed. I've seen the Mavic Mini but haven't read much about it, I may look closely at it when I need a new one. Size and weight are really important to me, needs to fit in the backpack and not weight half a tonne!
When is this filmed? this doesnt look very snowy
Hi Peter, it was filmed in November - about a week before the snow settled. Hope that helps.
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What drone you using in this footage?
It's an old Mavic Air - the original in fact.
Where is the snow
This was filmed in November about a week before the snow started to fall. I was hoping for some snow but it wasn't to be!
Just a PSA to all English speaking people: no, you did not pronounce that Finnish place or name correctly. And that is completely fine.
Thanks Ojl, I did try my best but I found a lot of contradicting information regarding pronunciations. Also, some of them are REALLY hard!! 😬
Is there anyway you could try to learn to pronounce Finnish names , it is not pronounced like an English word !
Yes there is but it's not as easy as you'd think. I have this problem a lot! There are usually guides on pronunciation websites and even here on TH-cam, trouble is there's lots of conflicting information. It's often the case you'll find 2-3 different pronunciations on the same site/page! Do you have a link to any pronunciations I can rely on, if so I'd love to hear it?
For me personaly and thats only now my oppinion finland looks much more Russian to me then other scandinavien countries. Also the houses the colours dont fit together and in general i find the architecture style of the buildings quite boring and simple. In overall and i have been myself many times in tampere i find the generell lookings of the infrastructure cold and depressing. Also many areas look kinda poor.
The wooden houses and the main square are the only real "nordic" looks of Tampere. There's still a lot of buildings from the 60's, 70's and 80's that have taken inspiration from Soviet architecture and they're as you can imagine, pretty hideous and boring.
Well, tell me, what does "Russian" look like? I have been in Russia, and it's really nothing like Finland. That's comparable to me saying Switzerland looks like Serbia.These days Finland is hands down cleaner and better looking than even Swedish cities, believe me. Also, there are only around 30 000 Russians in Finland, 0,54% of the population, how could any place in Finland look Russian? If you're talking about post-war brutalist concrete architecture, I've seen loads of that in Switzerland as well, and in many other countries. "Plattenbau" in Germany.
And how could the areas look poor? Finland GDP per capita $51,867 nominal, 2021. Sweden GDP per capita $55,566 nominal, 2021. I've seen nothing but clean environment and buildings in good condition, modern public transportation in these clips. I lived in Tampere as well for a long time in the past. Some parts of Geneva looked a lot like Southern Europe to me - I leave it up to you to determine if that's really a compliment or not, when we're talking about an area in Central Europe.
Finland is just very modern, since most of the cities growth has been after the war - and modern architecture isn't about prettiness or aesthetics, it's about functionalism. All together, you have made an insulting, highly pompous and ignorant comment.
As a Finn, you are quite correct. There has been alot of influence from Russia with the architecture, it's usually just a more refined version of the style. That's why most towns and cities in Finland are quite dull and depressing for the most parts.
@@HeilAmarth well like i said in the start its only my oppinion. Well Geneva is more french like and see themselves more as french then swiss. The german speaking parts are way diffrent. Sorry i hurt your feelings as you say ignorant etc... but thats why i said "my oppinion" i say this exactly that people dont feel offended ...
@@jeremyroenick2202 i like turku tho as i find it the most prettyest