Explore Finland in the Summer: Travel Vlog with John

When you picture a vacation in Finland, what does your imagination conjure up? Do you think of frosted trees, snowy landscapes, and starry night skies? Winter is a lovely time to visit this spectacular country, but come summer when the weather thaws and the flowers bloom, Finland transforms into something else altogether.
Located in northern Europe and bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia, this country is home to Lapland, some of the planet's most-mindblowing nature and of course, the midnight sun. Finland is among the few places in the world where this astronomical occurrence takes place, as a quarter of the country lies north of the Arctic Circle. It's one of the best reasons to visit Finland in the summer, imagine exploring Finland's exciting cities and attractions below a sun that never sets!
Join John as he begins his journey in the capital of Helsinki. This city is known for its remarkable architectural designs, beautiful islands, and delicious food. From Helsinki, you can hop onboard an overnight sleeper train to Rovaniemi, which is where Santa Claus lives!
Located in the Arctic Circle, along with exploring the hometown of Christmas' poster boy, you can see reindeer in the wild and the official markings of the Arctic Circle. The beautiful forested nature areas of this region aren't bad on the eyes either. You can even go foraging for a supper of fresh salmon and wild blueberries. The best thing about this part of Finland? You will meet the cutest Siberian Husky puppies and experience a moose safari.
Saariselkä, a resort village in northern Finland, is the perfect spot to see the midnight sun in all its glory. Watch as it barely touches the horizon before rising again. It's truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Your journey will come to an end in Turku, by sampling local delicacies, sailing around the archipelago ad discovering some fascinating history. It's the perfect way to say farewell. Join John on his summer adventure to Finland or better yet, head over to TourRadar and book your own!
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[@bjrnbrynemo9059]

I'm Norwegian, but yearn to visit this neighbor of mine some day

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

Idt I've ever heard a dog kennel as quiet as this one. The dogs are all content...u don't see them climbing and jumping gall over each other. No fiting or biting..no growling or snarling at each other. They're happy, n healthy well rounded dogs living IN A DOG KENNEL!🤯😳I've never seen that bfor

[@raqueldonaire2574]

Precioso

[@sb__ca]

6:07 For anyone looking for the name of the Nature area: It’s written “Vikaköngäs”

[@masterticcu35]

13:42 Swedish, not norwegian

[@johnbroadley535]

Sorry, I meant Swedish 😥. Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video though!

[@Cikeb]

@@johnbroadley535 Sometimes some of the Swedish dialects in Finland might be reminiscent of Norwegian. Still Swedish though.

[@JuanGarcia-qk3gm]

I will explore Finland,but in the Fall. it's stunningly beautiful.

[@bunbub]

I live in Finland:) this video was amazing! :

[@johnbroadley535]

Thank you so much :)

[@teijaalanko5165]

You like my country, i think so..👋🌅🦌🐾🐾Great this dogs. Lovely.💨💨👌Good holiday you.👋😄

[@imaginethat765]

That was great. Thank you.

[@bror8228]

Nice and high quality video..thanks for that...P.S. Those wild blueberries are bigger and more juicy if you travel in Middle- or South Finland... one you ate looked terrible :)

[@johnbroadley535]

Ahh okay I'll remember that for next time! I dont think it was quite the season when I went though :D

[@Aurinkohirvi]

All your footage is gorgeously taken!

[@Tourradar]

Thanks for watching! 🙌

[@johnbroadley535]

Thanks so much :)

[@virtualfitnesstv]

Great place to travel and awesome place to walk as well. Great work.

[@Tourradar]

Thank you! 🙌

[@JuanGarcia-qk3gm]

I intend visiting Finland but I'm not quite sure what time of year. Winter is not my favorite time of year,so I'm debating in my mind whether to go in the Spring or the Fall.

[@madanlalkanojia3041]

Very nice

[@4x4adventure_pl]

Thumbs up if you've ever taken a dip in an ice-cold Finnish lake after a sauna!

[@arofahms2959]

Beautiful country

[@jerkkub]

As a Finnish person i'm glad you liked our country

[@ChrisMizo]

Finland looks like a beautiful place to visit, those huskies are so cute!

[@smapos8953]

I am from finland

[@Ichigoeki]

Let me tell you something about huskies. My family has two of them, both from that exact husky park. We have a dog pen that's about three times the size of the pens that you see here, yet they only use a part of it that's slightly smaller than these pens. They don't really care about the rest of that empty space, since their actual exercise is done during the walks. The rest of their time goes by napping away. >_>

[@timomastosalo]

Think wolves in the nature also have just a small hole in the ground as their nest, then hunting they go miles to find food. Huskies live close to that.

[@andisaywhoa]

terkkuja parkilta! 🥰

[@dionnedunsmore9996]

Does anybody no of husky bark or not? I heard they don't bark?? Then I saw one barking😳was that one just an exception? Or do these dogs bark?lol idk if they do or not

[@kyostienttila4795]

Good video.

[@holoholopainen1627]

You Did Real Well ! You were on Good Mood - and that Helps to watch & listen - everything You Do / say ! I am Glad that You enjoyed Finland & shared This with Us !

[@johnbroadley535]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it

[@SK-nw4ig]

Thank you for this video. Just as winter isn't quite started here in Finland, and everything is grey, cold and still, it is great to watch some beautiful summery images. All though i do find autumn beautiful too, in all it's ruggedness.

[@trumpjongun8831]

Depends on which part of Finland you live. Week ago we had almost 40 cm of snow and -7°C in here Kainuu region. Its been like a real winter here over a month, but now we have + celsius and it's raining water. Only about 20 cm of snow right now.

[@janisalonen1448]

Awesome edit, really liked it! Well done!

[@johnbroadley535]

Thanks so much :)

[@laju]

Not trying to spoil the fun, but the red poles marking the Arctic Circle is just for a show. The real Arctic Circle goes past about one kilometer north from the Santa's Village. The Circle moves around about a dozen meters yearly anyway, so every marked line or signs for the Circle is just an approximation.

[@mikrokupu]

Wow quality stuff! Yeah the Lapland huskies rest in summer, in winter they are busy working with the tourists. One thing, 13:42 the languages are Finnish and Swedish, not Norwegian ;)

[@meowBlitz]

melkee sama asia :DD

[@petee090]

@@meowBlitz tää

[@johnbroadley535]

Ahhh I'm sorry! Thanks for correcting me though 🙂. Hope you enjoyed the video!

[@torpmorp1324]

John Broadbean It’s a great video and the differences between Swedish and Norwegian aren’t that big.

[@rebz549]

I was looking for this comment 😂

[@HRGoldenky]

Best finland travel video I have ever seen. This will get millions of views ;)

[@johnbroadley535]

Haha thanks! Trying to be as informative and story based as possible. That's our vibe! Glad you enjoyed it 😍

[@gege505]

@@johnbroadley535 are you a kiwi John?

[@johnbroadley535]

@@gege505 I'm from the UK! :D

[@Georg-Gruber]

I doubt the night train took the route shown at 2:23.

[@kronos5759]

Damn! Filmed so well 5/5

[@johnbroadley535]

L E D G E N D. Thanks for you positive comments, love it.

[@frozenballs3]

when in Helsinki, did you visit Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall?

[@learnfinnishwithme3714]

🌞

[@kanervatie]

O M G...The puppies!!! Holy crap I want one!

[@johnbroadley535]

I tried sneaking some out but they caught me 😉

[@Tourradar]

Right!?! They are too cute! 😍

[@kanervatie]

Talking about old. You should try Old Rauma if you ever go back. :)

[@timomastosalo]

Turkuis older, but don't know hw much they've kept of the oldest buildings - is it just the castle :) So maybe Rauma is older in the average, but the castle in Turku is older by centuries than the old Rauma.

[@johnbroadley535]

I would go back and do everywhere again! It was so beautiful

[@pepespecial]

I love your positivity. You made me smile :)

[@johnbroadley535]

Thanks so much! Gotta keep them positive vibes flowing :) - glad you enjoyed the video

[@angulion]

Nice video! Did you visit the 800 year old cathedral "Tuomiokirkko" whilst in Turku?

[@johnbroadley535]

I did! I only saw the outside though :)

[@angulion]

@@johnbroadley535 oh, when you were to luostarimäki, the oldest buildings in Turku, reason they being oldest are because they were the few spared from the great fire of turku in 1827, which pretty much burned down the whole town.

[@sohebq]

Name of place where you ate wildberries ?

[@poojagautam2472]

Hey brother!!so grade to see your vlog I'm from nepal what you think is the finland good for medical student? And will you please suggest me the things I should do to be there? I need education information about Finland 😌

[@Pyovali]

Finnish education is top class and for the price it's a steal, so why not?

[@Hanmieson]

I spoke norwegian last weekend

[@timomastosalo]

11:32 The reindeers are not wild - notice this white one has a bell around the neck, and reindeer owners would know from its earmarks who owns it. Though they do move around free until the time the owners herd them into fences, count the young ones, decide which ones are taken for food or hides etc. Even the bones are your, and I'm not sure what they do with the entrails, but dogs would love them. The owners can track them down pretty easy, because in the wild they have certain rhythm whereabouts they roughly are moving, depending on the time of year. It could also be nowadays, that they have a satellite tracker at their neck: at least one in the herd. Look at the plastic tube the white one has - think there's the tracker, plus maybe something else.

[@johnbroadley535]

They are semi wild. Wild during the summer months and kept close during the winter with their trackers yep! Beautiful creatures

[@timomastosalo]

@@johnbroadley535 Yeah, I kinda explained that semi wild, what it means in the Finnish case.

[@torpmorp1324]

John Broadbean yeah, the same animals are called caribou in Canada. There they are wild but in Finland they’re semi-domesticated. They both live free. Here they have owners

[@marvinschneider3842]

I’m going to finland in summer for 2 weeks, can someone recommend me things that i have to see and what’s the best way to travel around? I’m really looking forward!

[@jussikuuskeri4156]

Where are you staying?

[@marvinschneider3842]

Jussi Kuuskeri we have a car and will do a roadtrip around finland, we will start in Helsinki

[@pahakasvivenuksesta2653]

Turku

[@hauskalainen]

Lesson Two: To pronounce ANY Finnish word or name correctly, first break it into syllables and put the stress on the first syllable and ever decreasing emphasis on each of the following syllables. A syllable boundary comes before each consonant, except when two consonants come together, in which case it is between the consonants. So Rovaniemi IS pronounced as RO.va.nie.mi and not as I heard it ro.van.mi. The syllable NIE contains the dipthong IE (a vowel made up of two different vowels... you make the i sound and the e sound separately but run them into one another, just as we do with the English word pIEr). Helsinki is pronounced as HEL.sin.ki and Turku as TUR.ku (with each u in Finnish standard pronunciatuon sounding like a shortened version of the oo sound in the English word POO).

[@johnbroadley535]

Thanks for the info! Pronounciation is certainly not one of my strongest points! I think i tried to pronounce it a different way each time in the hopes that if would have been right at least once :). Hope you enjoyed the video!

[@Keinapappa]

Are you sure they speak norwegian in Åland? 😁

[@Aquelll]

That particular salty liquorice is not really that salty. It needs to grow on you, but when it does you cannot live without salmiakki. :D

[@johnbroadley535]

Yes, after I was told that it wasn't even that salty compared to the other stuff you can buy! I'll just keep having to eat it and change my taste buds. Can definitely see it growing on me that's for sure 😊

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Broadbean Do it the easy way. Try Salmiakki Koskenkorva. It is just like the candy, but more fun.

[@johnbroadley535]

@@XtreeM_FaiL haha will do, thanks for the tip!

[@timomastosalo]

2:27 Rovaniemi - UK English can say it like 'ROvahNearme' (RO strong, Near gets secondary strength - and without an audible r). Now you blurred It to Rovanimi (nimi = name) :)

[@johnbroadley535]

I really did try, I promise haha. I decided to just say it quickly to avoid too much embarrassment 😂

[@kajbergman6709]

In the Archipelago they speak SWEDISH, NOT NOTWEGIAN, AND FINNISH!!

[@johnbroadley535]

I spoke to people in the archipelagos that spoke all 3, but Finnish and Swedish were the main 2

[@epicans6065]

@@johnbroadley535 there is no reason for people to speak norwegian there. It's just swedish and Finnish.

[@hauskalainen]

Lesson One. How to pronounce Helsinki. The emphasis is on HEL not SINKI.

[@smapos8953]

Torilla tavataan!

[@teijaalanko5165]

Yes..Hyvin sanottu. 👌🌅🌭😄👋💨💨💨

[@khawarizmiofficialchannel1468]

This man is showing his face than finland

[@ignasiv1]

I'm just back from trip in Finland as well and this video gave me so many nice memories :) We got to see and feed huskies as well, btw. I also did a cinematic video there so feel free to watch it kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKXId4Swqc-aisU :)