FINLAND TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY | Unforgettable Road Trip in Finlands South
Join an epic Road Trip to Finland and its majestic southern regions. A Road Trip to endless small forest roads and lakes, beautiful islands off the beaten path, wide open beaches on the sea, small fishing villages, heartwarming hospitable locals and one of the most vibrant and interesting capital cities in Europe – Helsinki. Welcome to Finalnd. Welcome to one of my favorite countries in Europe.
The forests called us, and we went. And on the way we found lakes so big, that you can drive a boat on them for hours. We found a way of simple living close to nature, relying on what your surrounding provides. We found a place, where time sometimes seems to stand still and where the wild and civilized don’t compete but embrace each other.
00:00 Intro to our Trip through Finland
01:14 Starting the Road Trip in Germany / Pick up of our Camper Van
02:01 How to get to Finland with your own vehicle from Central Europe / Ferry from Sweden to Finland
05:17 Expectations for the Finland Road Trip
06:09 Areas of Finland and drive to the lovely town Hämeenlinna
09:05 Off the beaten track on Finnish dirt roads
10:35 Picking Blueberries and some Blueberry wisdom
13:24 About accommodations in Finland – staying at a lovely Lake Hotel
15:52 Finnish Supermarkets – Shopping experience full of surprises
16:40 Our first night ever camping in our Campervan at a secret racetrack
20:31 The finnish Lakeland – a race with time to catch a ferry to a remote island on Lake Saimaa
24:00 Adventures on a small island of the Lakeland – finnish dinners, catching crayfish, riding Quads and sweating in a finnish Sauna
28:59 Savonlinna – visiting one of the biggest towns on Lake Saimaa
30:56 Heading to Finlands southern coast
33:17 Versso Island and the Mirror Houses
36:05 Porvoo Fishing village – second oldest town in Finland!
37:38 Helsinki – Finlands capital and my highlights including the Alvar Aalto House and Studio
43:30 Grand Finland Finale
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28 Comments
Aww wow that was awesome.. Glad to have the adventures again.. Finland does look amazing and i love the narrow tracks and forest.. The Iveco is so beautiful.. Look forward to the next adventure 😁😁
It was a great video, thank you. If you're interested in seeing more of Finland, the "Jammy Gits" duo did a great TET tour through Finland.
welcome back, you were missed! i'm excited for this new adventure of yours…
Great to have you back!
Welcome back, Lea! This was such a lovely episode. Thank you for taking us along, and I look forward to Estonia! ❤
Welcome back idol👏👏👏👍🙋♂️🇵🇭
The Finland lake district reminds me of northern Minnesota, USA. We even have a small town called Finland!
At my summerhouse in Sweden I have both berries. The one who is white inside is in Swedish Odon and the other one is Blåbär.
It is so good to see you are back with the whole family. I have never been on your side of the pond but because of you and others on YouTube I have fallen in love with all the Nordic countries. I had to laugh at your little talk about Blue Berry's. I was raised in Montana in the US and the wild berry's in the mountains are called Huckle berry's. They look a lot like the wild berry's you showed in the video. They are a lighter blue then the Finish ones but they have a very distinct taste and they are highly sought after. They sell for very high prices per pound.
Welcome back Lia , nice video , love from Bangladesh.
So nice to see you back, along with your new family. You absolutely nailed the beauty and spirit of this beautiful country. Your relaxed narrative has an interesting and inviting nature.
missed u!!
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07:00,very little of Finland's nature is untouched nature. Almost all forest is industrial plantation.
Welcome back. Your narration and videography is still more than excellent.
The berry that is white inside, is so called "American blueberry", or "bush blueberry" (Vaccinium corymbosum) that is cultivated in big farms. The smaller one is the wild mustikka, blåbär, blueberry.
Despite often being called blueberries, the berry you can find in Finnish forests is actually called a "bilberry" (mustikka in Finnish), while the ones bought from stores are blueberries (pensasmustikka in Finnish). So yeah, it's a different species. Bilberries are way superior in my humble opinion. 🙂
Wow ….Welcome back very interesting new adventures 👏💐
Perfekt Lea, wir vermissen dich 😸 auf Youtube in 10 Tagen ist er in dein Land gereist, viele Grüße aus Valencia 👌🌹☕
Thank you Got2Go ❤😊
Die Person 🙏 stört Sie nicht, aber Iveco ist sehr schlecht. Ich hatte vor 40 Jahren den gleichen und bin nur 150.000 km gefahren, aber ich hatte einen Mercedes, mit dem ich 1.700.000 km gefahren bin. Viele Grüße
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Welcome back. As someone who literally lives at the other side of the planet i am so envious of you and the trips you do. Have fun and be safe. Looking forward to the video on your new camper.
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The big berry is a blueberry. Blueberries are a bush. Bilberry is the small one, grows in shrubs. This causes a lot of confusion since a lot of countries call bilberries as blueberries. Finland is one of those countries, in native language is is called blueberry so that is how we translate it too. Bilberries are very difficult plant to grow commercially, they require the exact kind of conditions found in forests: shielded by trees, the exact moisture, the surrounding slow growing moss is part of its lifecycle. Blueberry bushes can be grown in fields and machines can be used. Bilberries can only be picked by hand. They have tried to grow bilberries since forever but.. it just does not work, the ecosystem that it requires around is WAY too complicated to be replicated.
Wellcome back and what a wonderful video of my home country. Please come back to finland sometime and little more to north where I live. U can borrow my bike if You like to ride these small gravel roads. And I would be happy to show you some local places . Your videos are very good. 👍
Beautiful road trip and story telling, thank you for Vietnamese subtitles
Finland is much more touristic than other nordics in the winter.
Excellent documentary, as always. After watching your East Coast series 2 years ago I had to ride some of West Virginia and it did not disappoint – especially Thurmond. 👍