sea salt and dill and then you leave it for it and the next day you'll be ready to slice and eat
before leaving the market we stopped for a light
me when i heard the next day i'll be ready to be sliced and eat like what
what's good youtube it is your boy jew boss here and uh we're gonna be checking out
the capital of style helsinki finland that's what this video is titled so we're gonna be
checking that out right now i do hope this is an uh interesting video it is uh indeed seven minutes
seven seconds long so it's pretty it's pretty long so wow we're gonna be in here for a while
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into this reaction so uh let's go ahead we're the vagabrothers and this is helsinki finland
so that's a really lame joke yeah it's actually really cool city yes helsinki is the capital city
of finland home to about one in every five fins small compact and full of style this waterfront
city opens up to the baltic sea and bridges scandinavia to the west and russia to the east
in fact before getting independence a hundred years ago finland was caught between the
empires of sweden and russia and helsinki is a product of the push and pull of empire growing
up around the floating fortress of suomolina 15 minutes by ferry from downtown helsinki
so melina as it's pronounced is a unesco world heritage site that was built by the swedish
captured by the russians and finally taken back by the finns who opened it up to the public but
we didn't come here just to float around on an island we came here to visit helsinki one
of the most stylish cities in europe finns are known for their design legacy which is
rooted in simplicity and puts function over form it's something you see just
walking down the street from the renovated historical buildings of the tory quarter
to the modernist buildings from the 1930s and more recent additions like the chapel of silence
so the uh chapel of silence what do you just pull up in there and just be silent that's that because
that that's definitely what i get from the name chapel of style silence that would be pretty cool
just chill reminisce think about what you've been through and what you done did you know yeah chill
these days finish design translates into sustainable street style something that
visit helsinki showed us right when we arrived by hooking us up with a grab bag of local apparel
including coastal backpacks made from recycled denim and wooden sunglasses from polot so we
headed over to tory quarters in helsinki's design district to meet with hannes banks founder of
costo who spoke to us about helsinki style in general and his project in particular growing
up in finland it's always been a big big thing actually you know ecological the environment the
nature everything about it so it's a normal thing for me but you can't be too hip too trendy because
otherwise it won't last the trends goes you know it lasts for half an hour so you have to have the
classic design too you know too we produce all of our caps and other other accessories out of our
industrial leftover materials like the fabrics is from sofa factories small pieces they can't use in
in the industry that emphasis of quality over quantity is also shaping another aspect of
helsinki's culture cuisine where a new generation of young chefs are shaking up finished food
by focusing on local organic produce the best of which is found in the recently renovated
old market hall where we shopped around with some cured salmon and spoke with some of the
local fishmongers i love that word the traditional kyoto it's done it's just um a fresh salmon fillet
and in the top you've got sugar um sea salt and dill and then you leave it for it and the
next day it'll be ready to be sliced and eaten before leaving the market we stopped for a light
me when i heard the next day we'll be ready to be sliced and eat like what so we just give it
a overnight type no heat nothing that's it i'd have to taste that at story where we ordered
traditional dishes like cabbage casserole and salmon soup before speaking with the head chef
teemu aura the food is quite simple a lot of natural ingredients less on the blade and more
into the flavor and more in the story of the ingredients but that just wetted our appetite
for more so we ordered takeaway lunches from sun restaurant and had a gorgeous picnic in the park
after lunch we treat ourselves to another finnish specialty chocolate before heading over to coco
coffee shop to experience helsinki's famous cafe culture over coffee and cakes sea buck lingenberry
and chocolate and blueberry with liquor shrump we had heard that finns drank more coffee than
anyone else in the world so we asked the owner why finns were so obsessed with cars really
wow that's crazy wherever you go they always offer you coffee so
it's coffee is all over well i think what what also we are trying to do is drink less but high
quality but of course we won't still want to have more and more high quality coffee shops in town
we caught one more coffee at the iconic cafe regatta which overlooks the baltic
sea and some of helsinki's beaches yes they have beaches
it was so hot we even did some subbing stand up paddling on the baltic sea
in summer it never really gets dark here which means most of the drinking is done in daylight
which made it pretty easy to find our friend eva and local drinks blogger ilkas sien who took us on
a pub crawl through the bohemian neighborhood of kalia sokoli was a sort of a working class
it's really pretty interesting actually this video you know it's it's really about
uh i i thought they were actually finished but they uh they visited helsinki which is pretty cool
and um they were telling their experience and this that's pretty decent food i'm not gonna lie to you
pretty decent food the coffee definitely looks pretty good you know so that's something that
you got to put on your bucket list you gotta you know try to try it out and see what it's like kind
of seems really cool though in the architecture i i study architecture it's really good this is
really really beautiful district in helsinki but nowadays it's a very sort of a young hipster kind
of a neighborhood with a lot of cool restaurants opening up here a lot of good clubs and you know
the younger generation travels all the time and with that i think with the food and then
comes obviously good drinks as well so they learn it and when they come back here they really sort
of try to make it happen here as well if you like great cocktails so great wine great beer there's
there's definitely a bar for you in helsinki all right cool so where's the next place so next place
is quick because we're going to go drink some finnish beers okay yeah that's good that's good
in the past few years i think the demand also for good quality beers so the craft breweries
have been really booming i would say i think that
like people are worldwide getting the same sort of uh enthusiasm as me as many wine people have
about wine and now it's with me as well we're getting geeky with our beer but we spend less time
with our noses and our glasses and more time with the glasses to the lips absolutely cheers
meant to be enjoyed that's right it was a late night with ilkas and after a week running around
finland in a couple of days in helsinki we were in desperate need of some relaxation
so we met up with ollie from feel the nature tours who took us to a peaceful
lakeside cottage in nearby nuxio national park to show us just how close helsinki is to nature
dude just been fishing now it's time to hop in the sauna we're gonna do it finish style naked
we wonder why people think we're a gay couple we're actually just brothers
i think it's cause we're well dressed
after a couple of sessions in the sauna it was time for a nice barbecue overlooking the lake
with a beautiful sunset the perfect ending to our time in finland thanks for watching a big
thanks to visit helsinki and visit finland for making this entire trip possible if this video
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video a thumbs up share the love keep it moving uh this is really beautiful it's quite interesting uh
the culture of uh helsinki finland uh finland in general uh the sauna is definitely something that
you know catches my attention a lot i do love a hot shower never actually experienced the sauna
is yeah it's kind of crazy but in general finland seems like a pretty chill country in terms of the
nature i definitely do love nature it's really beautiful the food looked really good too so
it's it's it was a great video i definitely enjoyed this and learned a lot more about
finland as i should this channel is definitely cool with the phone reacts for a reason but either
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