Inside Helsinki: Is Finland the Happiest Country in the World?

[@BigSmallTravel]

Latest Video in North Finland: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ-3cneepK6Kf9E

[@julian65886]

Hey, this is Maria.....Love this video...library amazing, with all the commodities... Also Elizabeth's insight is great!! (love her makeup)

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you! Yes, Helsinki had some cool stuff like the library.

[@julian65886]

This one was very informative and entertaining!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks! Always aiming to inform. Entertaining? That is great to hear.

[@19320000000000]

Great great video guys I mean if I wasn’t so afraid to fly I’d be out on the next flight. Awesome video very educational and I am now in love with the Finnish lifestyle.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you very much. Your comment is wonderful. We really hope you could see how much we enjoyed Helsinki and its people as well. And yes, the Finnish lifestyle is unique. We are so glad you could feel what we experienced through video as this is our aim. Lastly, I hope you can fly to see this place, but of course be well and good luck to you. Where are you from?

[@19320000000000]

@@BigSmallTravel I am from Detroit here in the United States. I enjoy traveling around America when I have a chance but I just haven’t built up enough nerve to go abroad by plane.

[@defenseball9604]

Finland! Entertaining, but why no more reindeer footage at 13:35. Enjoyed this .... Thanks!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Soon enough. We will release our North Finland video so you will see much more reindeer footage. Thanks for watching!

[@rainertuominen4242]

Respect! This is the most updated and insightful travel vlog about Helsinki. Impressed that you were able to get any sauna video capture, a technical challenge.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you very much for the kind words. This means a lot. Where are you from? The sauna footage took some time but we made it work because the "Sauna" is a wonderful part of Finland.

[@BigSmallTravel]

If you can, please take the time to watch our recent video in North Finland in the Arctic Circle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZ-3cneepK6Kf9E

[@ryandietzjr.5756]

Nice, thanks. But, Reikäleipä or varrasleipä is a flat, hard, round, rye bread that has a hole in the middle of it. This is what you ate as it is a nutrious and long-lasting bread.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks, we really enjoyed the bread in Finland. The bread was certainly very dense but always delicious and hard to resist. Are you based in Finland?

[@GreatCityAttractions]

Nice work Big Small Travel.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you! Finland was nice to visit.

[@julian65886]

Great one guy!!!!!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Gracias!!

[@holoholopainen1627]

Nice Video ! Really nice that you made it to SVEABORG ( Swedish Town ) to VIAPORI ( Russian name ) to SUOMENLINNA ! As Linna is a town - like TALLINN - DUBLIN - BERLIN - thanks to that this was all new to Finland !

[@BigSmallTravel]

Yes, thank you for noting that in the video around 7:07 The Swedish influence around Europe is often overlooked and not discussed enough. Also, the influence later on from Russia and so forth. Where are you from> Thanks for watching.

[@stego2012]

I have an old pair of Fiskar scissors. Its been in my possession for ages. I have it my toolbox and I use the heck out if it for cutting through chunkier stuff and sheet metal. That pair could be decades old. I figure they perform a series of heating and cooling treatments to toughen the metal.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Very surprised that Finland has one of the oldest companies in the western world. Fiskars is high quality for sure. I did not know that Fiskars has stuff to cut through sheet metal! Are you using Fiskars for construction projects?

[@BigSmallTravel]

We are wine people, but the sour beer of Finland made us believers in drinking some beer from time to time as you can see at 8:29 in the video.

[@stego2012]

I was using the scissors which are small hand held that we use for cutting paper and hair. I was using that pair last week to cut through that corrugated roofing metal for projects at the Corn Maze festival that I work for.

[@stego2012]

@@BigSmallTravel I have aquired a taste for mojitos thanks to somebody we both know. And Michelob Ultra which won't leave you feeling sluggish.

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@stego2012 Fiskars make high quality stuff for sure. What is the Corn Maze festival?

[@Smithsgold]

well done !!!!!!!!!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks! Helsinki was made fun because of all the people we met.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Is it still hot where you are?

[@Smithsgold]

@@BigSmallTravel 85-90 tips this week and next but it cools off nice in the evening

[@oh2mp]

Nice video. As a Finn I like to watch this kind of videos to see my home country from a different point of view. Tourists often pay attention to other things than us and notice details that we don't. We have an inside joke with my friends that a sauna with an electric heater is a sauna simulator and real saunas are heated with firewood :) There are several theories about the etymology of cheers word "kippis". One is that sailors have said "keep peace" when drinking but the most probable explanation is that it has come from German Hanseatic League merchants who have been drinking in bars in Finland several hundred years ago and shouted in German "kipp es" meaning literally "tilt it".

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks for watching. We are very happy to see you liked to watch these kind of videos. We wanted to show as much as what we really were fascinated about Helsinki and Finland.Helsinki and Finland are especially of interest for Americans now.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Where are you from?

[@oh2mp]

@@BigSmallTravel I live in Espoo which is the western neigboring municipality of Helsinki and a part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. Half hour drive from Helsinki center.

[@oh2mp]

Actually this is the second biggest municipality by population. Helsinki proper has about 660k inhabitants and Espoo 300k. The northern neighbor of Helsinki is Vantaa and there live about 240k people, so the metropolitan area is about 1.2 million total. It's over 20% of the whole country.

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@oh2mp We did not visit Espoo. However, we took a ride share from the airport to the hotel and our driver was from Espoo. He was very helpful and very informative about Helsinki and Finland in general. Interestingly enough, when we took taxis in Helsinki most all of them were from places like Nigeria. We were surprised to see how diverse Helsinki is overall.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

English words would be long too, if they would be compound words. Compoundword is longer that yhdyssana. The happiness report states only that the overall theoretical conditions in Finland for citizens in all to live content lives are better than in other countries. I thank you you and leave you with a song: Leningrad Cowboys - Happy Being Miserable.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you for watching! Are you based in Helsinki?

[@BigSmallTravel]

Great comment. And, the happiness report makes sense as the conditions for a high quality of life are optimal in Finland.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

@@BigSmallTravel Those are familiar places you visited. Maybe not the spot you picked them super-duper blueberries from, but otherwise yes. There are social issues in Finland also and a fluctuating political interest to effect then. E.g. last night was the Homeless Night, which is an annually held event to raise awareness toward homelessness. If you are interested, there's a video about the Finnish social development during the past hundred years viewed thought the children's welfare: "Lasten Suomi sata vuotta". To that NATO question you raised I'd say, that Finland started to integrate more actively into NATO after Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. The first official interaction between Finland and NATO started in 1994 as Partnership for Peace. Then came the EAPC in 1997 and EOP in 2014. The fighter planes used by the Finnish air force are good indicators of where Finland has been leaning and been able to lean towards in different eras. Finland made the deal for 64 F/A-18 Hornets in 1992. Hornets replaced the Soviet MIGs and Swedish Dragens. Hornets weren't on the list of possible planes considered before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@finnishculturalchannel We are in the Baltic part of Europe and the attitude is much different compared to Finland. We were very surprised at how direct and candid many Finnish people were on sensitive topics going on today.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Leningrad Cowboys - Happy Being Miserable. Is this a song?

[@stefandee1970]

Going there next week...

[@BigSmallTravel]

Wonderful! We enjoyed the Finnish people and coffee in Finland. However, as an Italian, you may not be impressed with the coffee 😮

[@stefandee1970]

@@BigSmallTravel in riga now, waiting 4 conection to 🇫🇮

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@stefandee1970 Riga is ok, but we preferred Tallinn. What do you prefer? Here is our video in Riga: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZWnkomAaa2datU

[@stefandee1970]

@@BigSmallTravel riga is way better for me. Im found city spirit + arhitecture. Tallinn, outside old town didnt impress me. In Baltics, my ❤️ is in vilnius.

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@stefandee1970 Yes, architecture in Riga is very nice indeed. We will make a Vilnius video soon.

[@RachaelMartin]

Great video! Very informative for planning a trip! :)

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks again! Glad this helped. This makes us VERY happy to hear. Happy travels.

[@Peter-oh3pm]

How to pronounce Helsinki. In Finnish, the accent is always on the first syllable. Pronunciation Guide: Finnish Cities - KZbin

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks! Nobody informed us of that. We will do a video in Lapland by the middle of December. Any pronunciation recommendations?

[@HoseTheBeast]

@@BigSmallTravel Lappi with heavy emphasis on the double P. And the A in finnish is pronounced the same way as it is pronounced in Latin languages. Americans understand it quickly with how you say the ”Las” in Las Vegas

[@HoseTheBeast]

@@BigSmallTravel Lappi with heavy emphasis on the double P. And the A in finnish is pronounced the same way as it is pronounced in Latin languages. Americans understand it quickly with how you say the ”Las” in Las Vegas

[@BigSmallTravel]

@@HoseTheBeast Thank you for the language advice. Are you speaking Finnish? What is Lappi? We are a little confused. English has Latin influences, thanks to the Romans of course who are in present day Italy, but there is also Germanic influence.

[@HoseTheBeast]

Lappi is Lapland in finnish! The english word Lapland comes from the swedish ”Lappland” which like the finnish Lappi is also a province.

[@shahidanusrat6086]

As a Pakistani I fully support love and respect Finland and it's beautiful people from Pakistan 🙂. Please visit Pakistan 🙂.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you very much for watching. Finland is a peaceful place to visit and Helsinki is a calm capital. Have you been to Finland or anywhere in the Nordics?

[@Peter-oh3pm]

I don’t understand why many foreigners pronounce “Helsinki” with strong emphasis on the end of the name? It is wrong. The first syllable of all Finnish names is always emphasized. As you pronounce “London”. In the same way!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Of course, I see your point, but in English they usually stress the first syllable of most nouns ike city names.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Have you been to Tallinn, Estonia here is our new video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iX2WaZaCfdSDmck

[@holoholopainen1627]

Languages as alphabet are different in every language ! Cant blame the VISITORS !

[@afsanehrahmani9703]

Thanks

[@BigSmallTravel]

You're welcome! Are you in Helsinki? Or will you visit Finland?

[@afsanehrahmani9703]

I'm in lran.persian

[@afsanehrahmani9703]

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[@afsanehrahmani9703]

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[@BigSmallTravel]

@@afsanehrahmani9703 Wow! Are you in Iran? I hope everything is well. Or are you in Estonia?

[@Gibbetoo]

Finland gained independence December 6 1917. or that is the date.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thanks! The history of Finland was very interesting for us. Are you in Helsinki?

[@Gibbetoo]

@@BigSmallTravel few hundred kilometers north.

[@stickasockinit]

What is not to like, Helsinki!

[@BigSmallTravel]

Yes, it was enjoyable being in Helsinki. We stayed in Helsinki for about 5-6 days. What surprised us was how good the sour beer and food were as you can see in the video at 8:29

[@BigSmallTravel]

Are you visiting Helsinki?

[@stickasockinit]

We are home now from Helsinki and Estonia. Finland is what America should be striving to be like. No homeless, downtown is all "we are open", lastly the Malls are 100% occupied with stores. A great city and country to behold.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Yes, we agree very much. Finland was a great example of a peaceful and content society. We really enjoyed as well North Finland. Did you visit the northern part of Finland?@@stickasockinit

[@stickasockinit]

Yes we rode the rails to see Santa. Santa Clause seemed a bit greedy asking for $ to visit. The park is free so I do understand the charge. Rented the cabin top notch, a great rental. Rain and wind ruined the experience a bit. The arctic circle was fun to cross the line, in and out. The train was a sleeper arriving and day trip coach seating on departure. Also Estonia by ferry is a fantastic side trip.

[@Cikeb]

The church was not a tribute to the czar, but it was named The Nicholas church after Nicholas I and Saint Nicholas, until 1917, when Finland became independent. The grandness of the church and the area in front of it was because it was a regional capital within the Russian empire back then and needed to look the part. Maybe you should have mentioned why there's a statue of emperor Alexander II in front of the church, when you talked about the "independence spirit". Alexander II was the only Russian ruler that actually respected the autonomy of Finland, and that's why there is a statue of him right there. The same can't be said about the other emperors, and you won't find a statue of any other Russian emperor in Helsinki. Concerning Suomenlinna and the renaming bit. That's half true. The name in Swedish remains Sveaborg, which basically means Fortress of Svea or Sweden. The former name in Finnish was Viapori, which was derived from Sveaborg. The Finnish and Swedish name are both used. Today they're just names.

[@BigSmallTravel]

Thank you for watching. Also, thank you for all of the information regarding the history and details. We really enjoyed meeting and getting to know some Finns on this very short trip. Are you from Finland?

[@BigSmallTravel]

We are very happy that Finland has remained strong and independent despite the border tension potential from Russia.

[@Cikeb]

@@BigSmallTravel I am. I live in Helsinki and I'm also a bit of a history buff. Great that you made time to visit this part of the world. Helsinki has received a lot of attention lately. A lot more than before. Great for a place that is on the same latitude as Anchorage in Alaska.

[@deveshyadav363]

If i baught a iphone 14 from finland helsinki and i don't have a credit or debit card i baught the phone from my friends card. who lives in finland, so i can get tax refund???

[@mikedmartis1805]

Is it free?

[@deveshyadav363]

@@mikedmartis1805 what free the phone? No..

[@mikedmartis1805]

@@deveshyadav363 I was making sure myself ... Look for a refurbished option online or in bigger markets in US. Can u?

[@deveshyadav363]

@@mikedmartis1805 no man