How does HELSINKI celebrate its day?🇫🇮 (Are the stereotypes true?)🧐

[@anttikalpio4577]

You won’t see crazy patriotic celebrations in Finland except when we win hockey world championship. All other times we tend to celebrate in our own introverted spaces.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Oooh would love to see a hockey win!

[@observer4916]

it's funny seeing the finns walk around in shorts and a t-shirt whilst you texans are chilly enough to warrant a coat, lol. 20°c is hot weather for us northern europeans

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

😆😆 I know it’s so embarrassing! I’ll have to admit it was a lot warmer than we were expecting, the week before was quite a bit chillier so we brought warmer clothes then spent a lot of time carrying them around haha Now we are back in Texas with highs of 38😭🥵 Imagine how we’d be in the winter!😄

[@Norpal]

Nah, 20 is a nice balmy summer day. 25 is really warm, 30 is HOT.

[@RobbZipp]

Glad you had a great time in Helsinki! I have a lot of friends there and would like to go, one day. Congratulations on finishing your Spanish adventure! I can’t wait to see what’s next! Best of luck, friends!

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Hey Robb!!😁😁 Helsinki is super popular for metal! One of our hosts we stayed with said for 3 days every year there’s a big metal festival and all you see if black t shirts everywhere 😆 so cool

[@RobbZipp]

@@JourneywithJenandDrew heck yeah! I interview a lot of metal bands from Finland 🇫🇮

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

@@RobbZipp that’s so awesome 🔥

[@Pahakyy]

You missed Temppelinaukio-church, the national library, Helsinki city museum (all free). The different boroughs can be very different. I live 100m outside the central city limits and it's lovely.

[@Tamm1o]

Jen is the most finnish looking foreigner I've seen. And I've seen tens of thousands.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

That's funny because I thought Drew looked more Finnish!

[@GreatCityAttractions]

An interesting video - great stuff guys.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Much appreciated! 😊

[@arttuvesterinen6984]

That Runebergs- tart may have rum taste, cos they ad the spoon of rum to make it more moist.

[@Mojova1]

The dill pickle flavor is called dill flavor. :D

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

LOL so right!😆

[@KristinaWes]

1:50 & 11:30 - Since it was June the 12:th when you were in Helsinki, every possible family and all of the people that could be in the countryside at their cottages or anywhere else but in Helsinki at that time, would be away, if possible! 😄❤ - Because: it's the first Summer holiday month! 😎July is even quieter in Helsinki (and every bigger cities in Finland) than June. August a little bit busier, again. But that, too, is still the holiday month for many ppl. ☺ See, the School's have their holidays from the beginning of June all the way through July and at least half of August! 🤗 So only the ppl that don't have their Summer holidays from their work, were there. On the other hand, almost everyone of those ppl (who weren't out of the town) were out on the streets and parks of Helsinki, I assume - chilling on that beautiful, sunny day of celebration and happenings! 😅

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

That's such a good point! We hadn't thought of that 😊

[@oh2mp]

Nice that you had a good time here :)

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

It was fantastic! :)

[@paterikki]

I have lived in Helsinki my whole life of 33yrs and have never heard that on Helsinki day they crown man and woman of the Helsinki. I think every event happening on the small stage in Espa-park are only attended by few elders and fins that are visiting helsinki from somewhere else and just happen to be there.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Hahaha I can agree, the crowd was a bit older. It was so fun for us though! 😄

[@theauratraveler]

Nice video 😊

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Thank you 😊

[@juhavantanen2644]

great that yoy came here,sorry about that you didnt came to laplandd

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

We did Rovaniemi 😊 we have some videos there

[@moonliteX]

you are quite insightful❤

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Thank you for watching ❤️

[@SPPhotography89]

04:23 Lohikeitto 04:33 Lihapiirakka

[@mikkorenvall428]

Which is kind of cheat. 99% of that Salmon is actually Trout and most of the pie is bread and rice... =9 In most cases anyway.. of course there are some pies that actually have meat (mince).

[@toinenosoite3173]

@@mikkorenvall428 On your first point, no, if it really is salmon soup - otherwise they are guilty of false advertising. On your second point, do you expect apple pie only to have apple? FGS, of course there is dough and rice in a lihapiirakka!

[@NaomisAdventures]

Good video

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Thank you! :)

[@kraatarin8226]

I'm from Finland and I've never heard about a helsinki day. It's not really a thing, outside of helsinki anyway. Nice video, nonetheless

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

That is so interesting! It was quite lowkey but such a great experience :)

[@HoseTheBeast]

Of course it’s not a thing outside of Helsinki😂😂😂

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

Honestly, generally speaking as a finn, i can say that most stereotypes are real :D

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

😊

[@arttuvesterinen6984]

Stereotypes are indeed, truthfull. They can only, get a bit colour- painted when time passes.

[@chrisplusmelissa]

Awe... we were there last week too!

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

WHAT!! So sad we missed y’all 😭 How long were you in Finland?

[@chrisplusmelissa]

@@JourneywithJenandDrew We were there from Jun 6 - 15th! I thought there was a feature that if another youtuber was in the same country... we both get notified! :D It's a lovely country for sure.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

@@chrisplusmelissa Omg we were in finland from the 11th - 20th! So sad we missed yall! Also I had no idea about this feature... I will have to look it up :)

[@sket179]

Those two churches aren't the most impressive ones. Don't get me wrong: they look great from the outside. But especially the cathedral is a let-down from the inside. Its grey and dark. By far the prettiest "blows your socks away" church is the rock church (Temppeliaukion kirkko). It's carved into rock. It got too flooded with tourists so it nowadays takes an entrance fee, but it's well worth it. Happiest country is misleading, because the data tells about the quality of life and safeguards. It's more about being content than being/feeling happy. They just don't want to change the name of the report because it's sells better.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Yes we hopped into the Rock church on our last day! It was beautiful 💕

[@sket179]

Glad to hear you made it and enjoyed it! I did a scrapbook as a teen of dream cars, home and wedding place and that was it. I'm not religious so our venue was another place. Are you putting out another vlog still about Helsinki?

[@Caldera01]

@@JourneywithJenandDrew If you think the Rock church was beautiful, I wonder what your reaction would've been with a Heavy Metal Mass that is also a thing here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5mYaZ15eJyIb6c

[@jac4202]

👍🏾😎

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Thank you 😊😊

[@moonliteX]

i always find it strange that americans feel the need to add syllables to words where they don´t exist. if an american would never had run into how "new york" was pronounced they could pronounce it "ne-hew yo-ho-horkuye"

[@moonliteX]

i´ve watched lots of travel vlogs from finland. i think one pronounce Turku (tor-kuy maybe?) as "theur-kueyeh" ... like where do those extra syllibles and letters come from? ok that was just letters but syllibles are actually more usual for amercans to add. just don´t remember specific examples. they especially use syllibles that repeat the previous syllible.

[@EiriUesugiKun]

4:10 - Oh man, I wish these fake, way too light blue "finnish" flags would be outlawed. :D

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Why would they sell them in the first place? If you know… We thought it was kind of weird that it looked so pale but it was much cheaper than the others 😂

[@EiriUesugiKun]

@@JourneywithJenandDrew I don't know. I always buy new flags from Helsinki Flag Factory when I visit Japan so that I can give them to the local F1 fans. :) Oh, I mostly visit Japan during the Suzuka F1 race. xD

[@mikrokupu]

Finns need personal space :) But still friendly in my opinion, the good old mutual trust is still there. The Finnish flag is a bit problematic these days, unfortunately it has been hijacked by hard core nationalists, personally I am careful where I use it, only in sports events basically.

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Yes mutual trust is a big part of the culture here we noticed! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@JourneywithJenandDrew]

Also we had no idea about the flag 😅

[@sampohonkala4195]

@@JourneywithJenandDrew The flag is fine; it is really the lion of the coat of arms that has been hijacked. The best way is just claim the symbols back and use them everywhere.

[@formatique_arschloch]

​@@JourneywithJenandDrewI had no idea about the flag either, and I'm Finnish😂 I think it's the same in every country, some extreme nationalists use the flag for their agenda. In Finland that's really not an issue compared to many many other places.

[@liqiz1755]

@@formatique_arschlochyour username is german

[@immune85]

Finland is good at being a bit...cringe.