I'm English and so is my wife. When our kids were little we decided to do something different for our summer holidays so we rented a cottage (mökki) by a lake in Finland. That was it, we fell in love with Finland and have been back eight times now. Summer in Finland has been an intrinsic part of our kids' childhoods. I can't even describe how much I love it.
In the olden days Finns were born in the sauna, they washed themselves in a sauna, they made deals, talked of their problems, met new people, entertained guests in their sauna. When a stranger came to the house, there was always a sauna made warm and then some food to eat. When someone got ill, they were taken care in the sauna and when someone died, they were washed in there by their loved ones before burial. So for us, sauna is not just a nice way to spend the time, or a traditional way to keep clean and warm. It is an extension of life. Hence the community experience.
Lots of business and politics is/was done in the sauna, especially with the Russians. Now with women in those fields, it is not what it once was, I presume.
In the centre of Tampere the "footpath" that people don't walk on is indeed a cycle path. At 2:40 there is a round blue sign visible with just a picture of a bicycle on it. In Finland the cyclepaths are normally separate from the road itself, not just a marked section of the road surface (the painted lines would be invisible in the winter). The main street was totally rebuilt when they built the tram a few years ago and the cyclepaths were added at the same time. Before that it was a bit of a mayhem with people and bikes all mixed up together on the sidewalk.
For a second I thought you're not gonna address the fact that I'm dressed as a bag of potato chips 😅 Happy to hear you enjoyed your stay here! We had wonderful time as well 🙌
I loved this so much. I'm a kiwi, living in Finland right now, who has been watching your channel since I was living in London, at the time about to move to Germany (end of 2018?). And I met my now fiancé, who is Finnish, there. When we moved to Finland two years ago, we spent the first 18 months in Tampere so this video felt very much like home to me. See you next time!
dude, this is absolutely content enough. this video had a really nice cozy vibe to it (probably all the snow). i think this is one of the top 30 videos you've ever made (you've made a lot of good videos, especially on this channel)
I’m actually on holiday in Finland right now for the first time and this popped up on my feed! It was also a bit of a random choice for a trip, but I’m loving it just as much as you did. Amazing country and culture, and I’m definitely coming back next year in the summer! 😍
its so interesting to see Finland through your eyes; yes we absolutely used those sleds to get to school (in the 00s)!! not sure how popular they are nowadays though
Yes Evan, it's the bike lane. It's so funny to see someone visit for the first time a place that's so familiar to me. I'm sure someone already said all this, but the river is technically a rapid with a dam, hence the speed. And yes, there was an election, meeting people face to face is an integral part of most candidates' campaigns. You must go back in the summer for mökki season 😎
@@onerva0001 thank you 🙏🏼 Onerva! That’s interesting in some way similar way like Swedish & Norwegians cabins… I’ll do some research or if anyone has more details or infos/ tips 👍🏼👌🏼🙏🏼😘 I really enjoyed this vlog, there is so little about Finland outside of Lapland & Helsinki
this is so amazing to watch! I went to Tampere Finland summer 2019 and new years 2019-2020! It is such a beautiful city to travel to! love seeing al the places I've been to
I was lucky enough to stay in this wonderful city for two weeks in August 2018, there was the Moomin Museum, a bunny rabbit cafe and so many great places to walk and explore.
randomly stumbling on this video and the camera panning to show Jerina on the couch after I've followed her art and photography for years was a slight mindfuck haha
Oh gosh! You visited during the absolute ugliest time of year, the snows melting and revealing the moooonths worth of gravel that has been poured out onto the streets during winter and the trees being dead really tops it off.
When you said around 1:11 that you had a very Evan Edinger experience I expected that experience to be forgetting your wallet or passport on the plane, glad it wasn't that 😂 Lovely travel vlog as always!
I thought the paper cups with handles were super common? We have them in Norway and Denmark. We also have them in China, and I’ve seen them in Rwanda 😅
Haha “where is everybody?” 😄 a common question when people travel to Finland. I love this video, I’m actually from Finland myself but have been living in India for the last 10 years so I miss the sauna, the snow and the ice water dipping! And mämmi too 😊🤍✨🦋
Pella Cafe is Probably the best Coffee shop in tamepere, and especially if you are are Gluten free person, as most of their items are gluten free, unlike other coffee shops that might have one or two Gluten free things. Plevna Bar is probably the best, their own Brewed beers are the best Especially Siperia which is a SUPER DARK beer.
Same! I didn't know Evan had 'done' Finland ... I got here from watching Renata from the E Spot Podcast on one of her trips to Finland. Was so happy when YT suggested Evan's trip next :)
This was a very fun video to watch as someone who considers their hometown as Tampere since 2008, (born in 2003). This city has so much more to offer during the summer time, so i hope you'll be back here soon :)
Woow crazyyy ;D hahaa as a finnish person who has been following you for a looooong time is so cool to see you visit our country! Hope you had an amazing stay and that you also will check out some other cities like Helsinki :D I'd love to see more finland travel vlogs!!! Also also you need to also visit finland during the summer, it truly is the best time ever to be here, it's so light outside and sunny for so long (during midsummer the whole day and night depending where you are) :) Cheers!
Whatever is our go-to lunch place, they have amazingly good Asian dishes, can't recommend enough! Glad you enjoyed Tampere and good job on doing the ice lake dipping! 😂
what the hell, why did i not know you visited here! i live in tampere - this was so fun to watch. would’ve loved to bump into you. anyhow, you should come back in the summer, the midnight sun is definitely something worth seeing. ☺️
Evan, how did you find you hosts to stay with? Were they mutual friend, viewers, from a website? How would other people find hosts like them while traveling? Love your videos!
Big ups for lasting 5 seconds in the ice water. I'm a Canadian born to Finnish parents. I lasted one second in the ice water and swore up and down to never do it again.
Yeah there are alot of cyclist paths, tampere isnt a huge winter cyclist city tho. during the summer people would complain for you standing there because there would be so much more cyclists :D
I live in Tampere and the area where you are in the beginning of the video (about 1:30 - 3:30) is an area where I play Pokemon Go several times a week. I was half expecting to see myself in the pictures vigorously swiping my phone screen. I'm not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that that didn't happen.
The reason they say to breathe in before dipping your chest in ice cold water, is that humans have a reaction to it: we will inhale fast and sharp, it is something we can't really control. So, in case your mouth dips below water at the same time you will inhale water. So, breathe in, fill your lungs, dip in and you will be fine.
My mom and dad had a stall selling tea and coffee at the Isle of Wight pop festival in the early 70's and I remember those kind of cups from then (thousands of them!).
Tampere. Great pronounciation, you got it! If you want to sound like tamperelainen, put a little more sharpness on T, pressure on TAM and linger longer on M. And say the whole word slower. Eazy!
My home town! I gave my address to a british friend for gift exchange, they ofc google mapped me right away and came back with "you live next to some BIG TITS" cause yeah, literally across the street from that. It used to be called Salon Big Tits but it downgraded :D
In many saunas whoever sits in the hottest spot gets to call for löyly. In Helsinki my Samoan/American friend became a hero by taking the most heat. Kotiharju.
I take a bus to work and it passes by the Big Tiddies place, it's always funny how all the males in the bus avert their eyes away from it pretending they're not interested in it 😅
I'm a viewer from Long Island and that was way too much snow and ice for me! 🥶 Your reactions to the foods made me laugh but I would probably be the same. The cinnamon bun looked REALLY good though. Cats are a good judge of character so you should be honored those beauties chose you. Great video, Thanks
I think you are thinking it must be very cold in Tampere, with all that snow and ice? Well, I have been to NYC in winter, and my perception is that, with that ocean breeze from the Atlantic, anything even slightly below freezing feels absolutely numbing; as if your body parts might start falling off frozen. It is not at all like that in Tampere. We are far away from the ocean, and even inland from the comparatively minute Baltic Sea. Still not in the middle of the continent either but just inland enough not to be bothered by sea winds but close enough to enjoy a slightly milder climate than somewhere deep in Siberia. For much of a typical winter, our temperatures are something like -3˚C, which, given the above, doesn’t feel bad at all (like it would in NYC). Granted, occasionally you get temperatures like -20˚C for short time periods, and rather rarely something like -30˚C, but those are really the exception and not the norm. (The coldest I have ever experienced in my life in Tampere has been -33˚C, and the coldest in Finland in general was -37˚C. That was in Oulu, in Northern Finland, and there you *do* get some sea breeze as well, so it felt *really* cold.) So don’t be afraid to visit. It really isn’t *that* cold here usually (unless you have very bad luck). 😅 P.S. It is the darkness that really gets you, not the cold. It is probably OK for a visitor to just wonder about how early the night falls in winter. But living here, you notice it really affects your mind and body. Popping vitamins C and D may help a bit, though. And then, all of a sudden, you notice it is spring, and days are getting longer, and longer, and longer… until at some point it is so light in the middle of the night that getting to sleep is hard. Those summer nights are absolutely enchanting but also a bit difficult to take in.
Those Stair in Piispala are regurarly filled with groups of people running up and down them to train for running, and piispala was the last Stand of the Red Guard (The communist) during the finnish Civil war between the, reds and whites.
Yes, our parliamental elections were last Sunday and unfortunately the Right wing parties won by a landslide😖 And yes, most candidates go out in the streets to meet with their constituents themselves. Some of the biggest names only do it in safer locations and more controlled environments like election fairs, but the lesser known people just chill on the streets themselves 😂
@@Scatmanfi Yes, a Right-wing government possibly with one of the most racist, facist and bigoted party in the country is unfortunate. Unless you feel like youre part of that crowd of course🤷♀️
I'm English and so is my wife. When our kids were little we decided to do something different for our summer holidays so we rented a cottage (mökki) by a lake in Finland. That was it, we fell in love with Finland and have been back eight times now. Summer in Finland has been an intrinsic part of our kids' childhoods. I can't even describe how much I love it.
Nothing better than a cabin by a lake and nothing to do.
Glad to hear this! Enjoy Finland!
In the olden days Finns were born in the sauna, they washed themselves in a sauna, they made deals, talked of their problems, met new people, entertained guests in their sauna. When a stranger came to the house, there was always a sauna made warm and then some food to eat. When someone got ill, they were taken care in the sauna and when someone died, they were washed in there by their loved ones before burial. So for us, sauna is not just a nice way to spend the time, or a traditional way to keep clean and warm. It is an extension of life. Hence the community experience.
Lots of business and politics is/was done in the sauna, especially with the Russians. Now with women in those fields, it is not what it once was, I presume.
Walter and Jerina don't only have a beautiful place, they're gorgeous as well and they have the cutest cats! Love their style all round
I went to a cooking class in Finland and learned how to make the salmon soup and meatballs and korvapuusti. It was a fantastic experience.
and a while lot warmer than freezing your toes off ! :)))
In the centre of Tampere the "footpath" that people don't walk on is indeed a cycle path. At 2:40 there is a round blue sign visible with just a picture of a bicycle on it. In Finland the cyclepaths are normally separate from the road itself, not just a marked section of the road surface (the painted lines would be invisible in the winter). The main street was totally rebuilt when they built the tram a few years ago and the cyclepaths were added at the same time. Before that it was a bit of a mayhem with people and bikes all mixed up together on the sidewalk.
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For a second I thought you're not gonna address the fact that I'm dressed as a bag of potato chips 😅
Happy to hear you enjoyed your stay here! We had wonderful time as well 🙌
I loved this so much.
I'm a kiwi, living in Finland right now, who has been watching your channel since I was living in London, at the time about to move to Germany (end of 2018?). And I met my now fiancé, who is Finnish, there. When we moved to Finland two years ago, we spent the first 18 months in Tampere so this video felt very much like home to me. See you next time!
dude, this is absolutely content enough. this video had a really nice cozy vibe to it (probably all the snow). i think this is one of the top 30 videos you've ever made (you've made a lot of good videos, especially on this channel)
I’m actually on holiday in Finland right now for the first time and this popped up on my feed! It was also a bit of a random choice for a trip, but I’m loving it just as much as you did. Amazing country and culture, and I’m definitely coming back next year in the summer! 😍
As a Brit living in Finland, I really enjoyed watching this.
its so interesting to see Finland through your eyes; yes we absolutely used those sleds to get to school (in the 00s)!! not sure how popular they are nowadays though
They will come back, when those who cruised around 00's get their own kids to school :D Ps... the best part was late evening races down hill.
Can confirm, used those in the 80's too.
Yes Evan, it's the bike lane.
It's so funny to see someone visit for the first time a place that's so familiar to me. I'm sure someone already said all this, but the river is technically a rapid with a dam, hence the speed. And yes, there was an election, meeting people face to face is an integral part of most candidates' campaigns.
You must go back in the summer for mökki season 😎
What’s mökki if you don’t mind me asking? I would love come visit Finland this summer and also next winter! Well that’s the plan 😊❤
Sabrina🇫🇷🇬🇧
@@sabrinastraveladventures4263 mökki is summer cottage
@@onerva0001 thank you 🙏🏼 Onerva! That’s interesting in some way similar way like Swedish & Norwegians cabins… I’ll do some research or if anyone has more details or infos/ tips 👍🏼👌🏼🙏🏼😘 I really enjoyed this vlog, there is so little about Finland outside of Lapland & Helsinki
The Tammerkoski--the rapids--is also comparatively warm due to the outflow from the power/heating plants along it.
this is so amazing to watch! I went to Tampere Finland summer 2019 and new years 2019-2020! It is such a beautiful city to travel to! love seeing al the places I've been to
What a beautiful space your friends have created for their home. It calmed me from halfway around the world.
I was in Tampere in February! This brings back so many great memories!
You are so good at so many things...vlogging, photography, editing, etc
I was lucky enough to stay in this wonderful city for two weeks in August 2018, there was the Moomin Museum, a bunny rabbit cafe and so many great places to walk and explore.
You missed the cat cafe, it's quite lovely too :)
randomly stumbling on this video and the camera panning to show Jerina on the couch after I've followed her art and photography for years was a slight mindfuck haha
It's so strange to see Finland and hear Finnish in your video because usually no one (that I follow) visits here. Really nice vlog :)
Ha! I used to live just a few hundred meters from the place you stayed in. :) Happy to see you enjoyed Tampere.
Man, the broom, that's like the most generic broom you can find in Finland, sold in every hardware store that sells brooms! 😂😂😂
Oh gosh! You visited during the absolute ugliest time of year, the snows melting and revealing the moooonths worth of gravel that has been poured out onto the streets during winter and the trees being dead really tops it off.
When you said around 1:11 that you had a very Evan Edinger experience I expected that experience to be forgetting your wallet or passport on the plane, glad it wasn't that 😂
Lovely travel vlog as always!
Absolutely loved that mate. What a place and your pals are great too.
This video was amazing! Thank you for showing off the city I call home! :)
I thought the paper cups with handles were super common? We have them in Norway and Denmark. We also have them in China, and I’ve seen them in Rwanda 😅
Yep - the handles fold flat so they're stackable. Quite clever.
Really new subscriber and I must say I loved this delightful video! Makes me interested in visiting a country that I barely thought about before.
Thanks!
Great video. That was the most I've seen of this country. Thanks for sharing.
Haha “where is everybody?” 😄 a common question when people travel to Finland. I love this video, I’m actually from Finland myself but have been living in India for the last 10 years so I miss the sauna, the snow and the ice water dipping! And mämmi too 😊🤍✨🦋
Pella Cafe is Probably the best Coffee shop in tamepere, and especially if you are are Gluten free person, as most of their items are gluten free, unlike other coffee shops that might have one or two Gluten free things. Plevna Bar is probably the best, their own Brewed beers are the best Especially Siperia which is a SUPER DARK beer.
I always love seeing people I follow on different media visiting our country. First it was Conan O'Brien and now mr. Edinger
Same! I didn't know Evan had 'done' Finland ... I got here from watching Renata from the E Spot Podcast on one of her trips to Finland. Was so happy when YT suggested Evan's trip next :)
This was a very fun video to watch as someone who considers their hometown as Tampere since 2008, (born in 2003). This city has so much more to offer during the summer time, so i hope you'll be back here soon :)
Woow crazyyy ;D hahaa as a finnish person who has been following you for a looooong time is so cool to see you visit our country! Hope you had an amazing stay and that you also will check out some other cities like Helsinki :D I'd love to see more finland travel vlogs!!! Also also you need to also visit finland during the summer, it truly is the best time ever to be here, it's so light outside and sunny for so long (during midsummer the whole day and night depending where you are) :) Cheers!
The art was so beautiful!
Good fun for tourist! glad you liked it.
What lovely hosts, the audacity of Evan calling out their love of plants LOL
Tampere is the Manchester of Finland. That's why it's called Manse or Mansesteri.
I love your travel vlogs! I’ve missed them :)
Whatever is our go-to lunch place, they have amazingly good Asian dishes, can't recommend enough! Glad you enjoyed Tampere and good job on doing the ice lake dipping! 😂
i remember paper cups with wing handles from when I was a child in Australia (80s).
they disappeared when plastic cups became popular
I love doing bike trips at Tampere in the summer. Pispala is especially beautiful in summer.
what the hell, why did i not know you visited here! i live in tampere - this was so fun to watch. would’ve loved to bump into you. anyhow, you should come back in the summer, the midnight sun is definitely something worth seeing. ☺️
What a fantastic video! I'll have to add Tampere to my list of places I want to visit! 📍
What a great video!
I like that you go to places I'd never go and you find what you think is good about them.
Great video! Pellas cafe and Runo are really nice cafes, nice that you found them. 😊
Lovely vid Evan! Loved the voiceover, music, content itself, lovely place, and overall vibe. Cheers!
Loved this experience and would definitely try it. I bet Gibraltar is going to rock!
waltteri is like a superior version of walter
Evan, how did you find you hosts to stay with? Were they mutual friend, viewers, from a website? How would other people find hosts like them while traveling? Love your videos!
"That's probably what Americans taste like." 😂
Nice. It looks like you has a great time...
I really like your filming style
Big ups for lasting 5 seconds in the ice water. I'm a Canadian born to Finnish parents. I lasted one second in the ice water and swore up and down to never do it again.
Paper cups with handles are a thing in the States. I've seen and used them a lot.
Yeah there are alot of cyclist paths, tampere isnt a huge winter cyclist city tho. during the summer people would complain for you standing there because there would be so much more cyclists :D
I call that Free Airbnb and sympathizing with the inhabitant.
Nice that you got to do intresting thing. Upea koti teillä ja ihana näköiset kissat!
I live in Tampere and the area where you are in the beginning of the video (about 1:30 - 3:30) is an area where I play Pokemon Go several times a week. I was half expecting to see myself in the pictures vigorously swiping my phone screen. I'm not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that that didn't happen.
They have a lovely house. It has been a Interesting video. As I don't much about the country.
The reason they say to breathe in before dipping your chest in ice cold water, is that humans have a reaction to it: we will inhale fast and sharp, it is something we can't really control. So, in case your mouth dips below water at the same time you will inhale water. So, breathe in, fill your lungs, dip in and you will be fine.
In this video Evan traveled so far he became a cat tree.
We have those types of paper cups here in Canada.
My mom and dad had a stall selling tea and coffee at the Isle of Wight pop festival in the early 70's and I remember those kind of cups from then (thousands of them!).
Tampere. Great pronounciation, you got it!
If you want to sound like tamperelainen, put a little more sharpness on T, pressure on TAM and linger longer on M.
And say the whole word slower.
Eazy!
We in Liverpool, call egg and butter mixed together, chucky egg. Bloody vile.😮
08:30 Correct form is Munkki, means also Monk on finnish.
1:09 Heyy, I saw my apartment building :D
Haha I was looking for mine the whole video. just missed it by a street lol.
Hopefully the weather was more on the Tampere side.
WHAT YOU WERE IN MY CITY 😭😱 would've loved to meet you!
i want all those zelda house decorations ....
Hey Evan, could you share the make/model of that phone/watch stand? Been looking for something exactly like that!
This gave me cold vibes due to seeing the house I live in, in this video.
Well, this was interesting.
Saying your don't like licorice while being in Finland. I see that you like to live dangerously :D
3:35, there were parliamentary elections on April.
My home town! I gave my address to a british friend for gift exchange, they ofc google mapped me right away and came back with "you live next to some BIG TITS" cause yeah, literally across the street from that. It used to be called Salon Big Tits but it downgraded :D
In many saunas whoever sits in the hottest spot gets to call for löyly. In Helsinki my Samoan/American friend became a hero by taking the most heat. Kotiharju.
i can tell you that you sayd Tampere right. Im from Finland.
I take a bus to work and it passes by the Big Tiddies place, it's always funny how all the males in the bus avert their eyes away from it pretending they're not interested in it 😅
I'm a viewer from Long Island and that was way too much snow and ice for me! 🥶 Your reactions to the foods made me laugh but I would probably be the same. The cinnamon bun looked REALLY good though. Cats are a good judge of character so you should be honored those beauties chose you. Great video, Thanks
I think you are thinking it must be very cold in Tampere, with all that snow and ice? Well, I have been to NYC in winter, and my perception is that, with that ocean breeze from the Atlantic, anything even slightly below freezing feels absolutely numbing; as if your body parts might start falling off frozen. It is not at all like that in Tampere.
We are far away from the ocean, and even inland from the comparatively minute Baltic Sea. Still not in the middle of the continent either but just inland enough not to be bothered by sea winds but close enough to enjoy a slightly milder climate than somewhere deep in Siberia. For much of a typical winter, our temperatures are something like -3˚C, which, given the above, doesn’t feel bad at all (like it would in NYC). Granted, occasionally you get temperatures like -20˚C for short time periods, and rather rarely something like -30˚C, but those are really the exception and not the norm. (The coldest I have ever experienced in my life in Tampere has been -33˚C, and the coldest in Finland in general was -37˚C. That was in Oulu, in Northern Finland, and there you *do* get some sea breeze as well, so it felt *really* cold.)
So don’t be afraid to visit. It really isn’t *that* cold here usually (unless you have very bad luck). 😅
P.S. It is the darkness that really gets you, not the cold. It is probably OK for a visitor to just wonder about how early the night falls in winter. But living here, you notice it really affects your mind and body. Popping vitamins C and D may help a bit, though. And then, all of a sudden, you notice it is spring, and days are getting longer, and longer, and longer… until at some point it is so light in the middle of the night that getting to sleep is hard. Those summer nights are absolutely enchanting but also a bit difficult to take in.
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Did you upload this video late ? You uploaded it in March, isn't it supposed to be Summer during march april?
My home city.
Finland does good for everybody, especially americans
nyt on kunnollista
Best city on earth
First? Torilla tavataan!
I came to see how many people had already commented "Torille"😂
ei kiitos
Laukontorille! Tosin sinne on täältä yli 300km matkaa, mutta silti :D
Uh wow
You're the Cat-Daddy!
Hello Evan! I’m shock that you like mämmi. I’m from Finland and I hate mämmi. Be safe and thank you very much.💖🇫🇮
Ice swimming is as extreme as skydiving, but a whole lot cheaper. Also, skydiving is fun, ice swimming is not.
CANCELED 9:56
Average finnish winter.
and Spring, Summer and Autumn
Wait what?
Are Finns actually so proud about being Finnish? They even had their flag on the bag of chipse
Those Stair in Piispala are regurarly filled with groups of people running up and down them to train for running, and piispala was the last Stand of the Red Guard (The communist) during the finnish Civil war between the, reds and whites.
Yes, our parliamental elections were last Sunday and unfortunately the Right wing parties won by a landslide😖 And yes, most candidates go out in the streets to meet with their constituents themselves. Some of the biggest names only do it in safer locations and more controlled environments like election fairs, but the lesser known people just chill on the streets themselves 😂
Unfortunately? Mkay..
@@Scatmanfi Yes, a Right-wing government possibly with one of the most racist, facist and bigoted party in the country is unfortunate. Unless you feel like youre part of that crowd of course🤷♀️
I wouldn't call it a landslide. It was a fairly close election.
Unforrunately? You are insane. Its the best thing to happen in 4 years.
@@taikajorma7276 Oh, because right-wing politics have been so successful throughout history🙄
Its actually illegal to visit Tampere and not taste "mustamakkara".
We had election going on hah hah hah ....
_Wendover... I guess_
I was in an airport