A Few Days in Finland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- A friend of mine visited for a few days. This was her second trip within 10 months so we did not do the usual touristy things. We primarily hung out in Salo one day and visited Naantali the other.
Activities included:
Day 1:
Dinner at Pretty Boy (Helsinki Vantaa Airport)
Day 2:
Breakfast at Design Hill Cafe, Halikko
Salo Art Museum
Hanhivaara Gym
Dinner at Mathildedal Marina
Day 3:
Breakfast in Salo Marketplace
Naantali (Old town, Marina, Museum)
Dinner at Musine, Salo
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Sweet video. Thank you for sharing parts of your friend's visit. And yes, I do take pics of where I park my car so that I can find it later. I always forget where I park.😅
@ingridthompson6512 thanks, we take pleasure in the simple things here. Funny thing is when I go to the trouble of taking a picture, I remember where I parked. It's when I don't that there is a problem. 🤣
@@laterlife2931 I may try one of those location apps 😅.
I recommend day trips to places like Hanko, Rauma, Turku, Porvoo, Fiskars, and weekend trips to Oulu, Kuopio, Rovaniemi (this one is the best in winter though)... also, even if you aren't a keen hiker, the Finnish national parks are amazing and so healing for the soul.
@GGLEGO thanks for the suggestions. I haven't been to Rauma Porvoo or Oulu and they are high on my list of places to go. I took this friend to Turku, Fiskars and Rovaniemi last summer. She wants to come back in winter to do Rovaniemi again.The only one I hadn't considered is Kuopio so I will have to add that to the list. We are close to Teijo for hiking so I want to explore that more. It seems we think similarly. 😃
You mentioned Brussels being in the same neighborhood as Salo, Finland.
If so, then Utsjoki definitely is more in the same neighborhood.
Have you visited it?
Much closer than Brussels, Belgium.
( But everything is relative.. and context dependent, including neighborhoods)
@just42tube I was joking with my friend when I said she should visit since she was in the neighborhood. However, she must like Finland because she came. I was especially impressed because she took connecting flights so it was a real hassle for her to come for 2 1/2 days.
@@laterlife2931
I remember a discussion from more than 40 years ago. A Finnish exchange student who had spent a year somewhere in the bible belt USA had met a person from Germany. She said that it felt like meeting a neighbor. The feeling of closeness compared to high school students in the USA was so clear.
So, perhaps your joke could have been more to the point and factual than you intended, or though.
@@just42tube yes, sometimes I forget how long I have been away.
@@laterlife2931
You mention having been away a long time. It can be a simple observation. It can also hide a message or having moved some distance away from the old context, culture, identity, values, views...
The effect of having been away a long time sometimes is that you remember how things used to be and aren't part of the changing society over time. This can make you an alien in your own country. Your own path through history is different from your old home. For that to happen in a smaller degree, it doesn't require you to move to another country. But if you keep closer contacts to those places of your past, it might not happen.
On the other hand, sometimes you better give yourself freedom to grow and evolve without anchoring yourself to your past.
@@just42tube I saw it firsthand. I immigrated to the US as a child. I saw how my parents were rooted in how things were "in the old country" so as you mention it, I can see it in myself.
It's common to take advantage of visitors by taking them to visit palaces you wouldn't otherwise visit, not often anyway.
Often people are blind to what all experiences your own area can offer.
Using quests as an excuse to open your own eyes is useful.
@just42tube I agree with going different places with visitors. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I don't get many visitors and when they do come they tend to be very quick trips. You always have great ideas. What unlikely places would you take guests?
@@laterlife2931
When you live a short distance from some tourist attractions, somehow famous places, you're less likely to visit them. You are interested in places and activities, which are part of your life and lifestyle. Only almost by accident, or showing them to visitors, would I visit churches, monuments, some museums, libraries... The kind of places, which might attract me on foreign places.
I have visited more touristy places in San Francisco than in Helsinki.
I simply aren't a tourist in my own neighborhood, and that explains my different behavior.
@@laterlife2931
I have been watching videos by immigrants to get impressions of what they find interesting, worth mentioning or preferable in Finland.
People from different backgrounds can be interested in very different things.
It depends on your visitors what would be worth showing them.
Since so many people are city dwellers, just taking them out in nature in a more natural state seems to be a good idea. But some are so alienated that they aren't really comfortable with it. People are individuals and need to be treated as such.
@@laterlife2931
The first time I knowingly met a foreign visitor was in my childhood. He was from Egypt and arrived at our home with a friend of ours at the time when we were about to go to the sauna. So, we took him with us. I was about 10, I think, and didn't have any significant English skills.
In retrospect, I am not sure it's the best thing to take some foreigners to the sauna in your first meeting. The cultural distance might be significant, overwhelmingly so.
@@just42tube I prepare a suggested itinerary for all visitors. I give them a few choices for each day and let them pick the one that jumps out at them. For example, my friend wanted to go to the gym. I don't think that was even on my list but she asked for it. She saw my swimming hall visit video so she knew I was going to the gym. 😄