One more month to go and then my summer holiday finally starts. Happy to have holiday in July as it often is quite nice weather in Scandinavia. Then you are able to explore Finland is totally different way than in winter time or between your normal working day routines.
Helsinki is a perfect summer city and I just enjoy walking around the town having coffee at the market place, picnic in the
Suomenlinna, ice cream at the park and lunch in the outside terraces of the nice restaurants.
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| Helsinki |
Finland is absolutely on its best in the summertime: beautiful green nature, lots of lakes where you can swim, long light days and happy people.
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| Finnish countryside |
There are also lots of different kinds of happening all over Finland during the summer season: festivals, concerts and traditional events. It is always nice to get to know other towns besides Helsinki during the summertime. Last year I visited lots of places in the west coast, mainly because
Turku was the European Capital of Culture 2011.
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| Turku |
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| Uusikaupunki |
My favourite summer event is the
Flow Festival in Helsinki in the beginning of August. Urban, trendy city festival with interesting selection of artists, like
Janelle Monae in 2011.
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| Janelle Monae at Flow |
Like all the concerts in Finland were not enough last year I did also few trips abroad in order to catch my favourite artists and saw Arctic Monkeys in Oslo, Coldplay at
Where The Action Is in Gothenburg (why they have yet not played any concerts in Finland?), Veronica Maggio in Visby and several great acts at
Popaganda in Stockholm.
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| Arctic Monkeys at Sentrum Scene in Oslo 2011 |
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| Coldplay at WTAI in 2011 |
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| Where The Action Is 2011 |
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| Popaganda Festival in Stockholm August 2011 |
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| Arcade Fire at Popaganda 2011 |
Well, it is pretty convienient to make few days breaks also abroad, nearby towns like Tallinn, Riga, Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Visby. For example Tallinn is just so beautiful old Hansa town which you can easily reach by taking a few hours ferry trip.
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| View to Tallinn Old Town from Toompea |
I prefer starting my holiday by travelling and being able to unwind and relax. I try to take a short break somewhere in Europe and it is always nice to visit new places. Last summer I finally had a change to visit Iceland, which was one of my dreams coming true.
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| Arnastapi, Iceland |
Last summer I also visited
Gotland for the first time and totally fell in love with the island. Stayed in Visby and visited Fårö with magnificient rauks.
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| Visby |
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| Fårö coastline |
Useful thing to keep in mind when planning a trip to Gotland that there are certain weeks you maybe want to avoid (like
Stockholmsveckan) so do your pre-research about the summer events in the island. Visby is very popular during summer season so you should make hotel reservations in time.
Now I am really inspired to start planning this year's summer holiday. My only wish is that July weather will be as brilliant as past few years.
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| Summer holiday 2011 |
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