Cycling around the city

Helsinki is obviously the most beautiful city in the world. But for those who still have doubt, this video might give a good impression to convince you.


Hop on and join a cycling tour around the city.

Have a nice start into the weekend!

Singing to Sibelius' honor

Yesterday the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius would have celebrated his 150th birthday. To his honor hundreds of Helsinkians came to the Senat Square to sing his piece Finlandia together.

And just in time the sun even came out. Watch the impressive video on Yle.

Helsinki UNCOVERED

The guys from APOLLO.TV in Berlin have paid a visit to Helsinki and made a cool short video about this beautiful city. Check it out!


Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Talking statues

All around Helsinki you can find lots of statues. But do you know who they are for and what the story behind them is? If not, then just go there. They will tell you themselves.

Now you find a small plaque next to them that shows you two QR codes. One is for the Finnish and one for the English version. Scan them with your phone and you can watch a video that will explain you everything you need to know.

Let Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Zacharias Topelius and many more tell you more about their lives and their own statues.

And if you don't have mobile internet on your phone don't worry. You can find a free wifi spot pretty much anywhere in the city.

Stations in timelapse

Train stations are usually pretty busy places. In his short film Tuomas Kaisti from hkistreet managed to take the hectic and stress out the daily traffic madness. Ironically he achieved that by speeding things up even more with a timelapse video. But see for yourself.

Have a nice start into the weekend!

For more trust and tolerance

Yle Kioski did an amazing social experiment recently in Helsinki. In times where distrust among religions and cultures is growing more and more Muslims where invising and themselves being invited to hug and get hugged.

But see for yourself.

Enjoy those amazing videos and have a great weekend!

Helicopter tour over Helsinki

During the NBE Helsinki 2015 some bloggers took adavantage of the beautiful sunny winter weather and went for a helicopter ride over the city. Here is a stunning video of the trip.

Have a nice day!

Vagabrothers in Porvoo

The Vagabrothers came to Finland for last week's Nordic Bloggers' Experience. During their time here they of course also made some new videos. The first one just came out where they show what you can do in and around Porvoo.


Check it out and subscribe to their channel!

Poets of the Fall show their Helsinki

The rock band Poets of the Fall from Helsinki are proud of their hometown. To make it more known to their fans around the world they filmed their newest music video here. So far it has not been released. But together with VisitHelsinki they released four short teasers where they share their thoughts about their home town. You can watch the first one here. The other three can be found on Visit Helsinki's YouTube channel.

Enjoy!

Learn Finnish with Santa

How good is your Finnish? Not that good? Well, there is someone that can help you. At least with the most important phrases. And pretty surely you know that someone quite well. It is Santa Claus.

Vagabrothers in Helsinki

This video of the Vagabrothers takes you on a trip through our wonderful city and gives a really good impression of the highlights of Helsinki.

And it also brings back some good memories of Finnish summer.

Have a great Sunday!

Helsinki - the beautiful capital of Finland

And here is another great video of this beautiful city made by the guys at VisitFinland.


Enjoy and keep in mind that it's just a few more hours till the weekend starts!

Impressions of Helsinki

In this video by Visit Helsinki individuals from around the globe tell what they think about Helsinki.



Do you agree and what is your opinion? Leave a comment below.

Timelapse of one year in Helsinki

Check out this great video of Helsinki by Timo. It shows the city throughout the year.

Enjoy and have a nice Sunday!

Helsinki in 48 hours

Let's start the week with a great video. Jose A. Fuentes and P. Soler from Lavueltaalmundos made an amazing film of the best sights of Helsinki to see in 48 hours. How many places do you recognize?

Have a nice week!

My Helsinki - a flight over Helsinki

With his quardcoper and a small camera Lare Lekman made an amazing video of Helsinki from above. My Helsinki takes you on a breathtaking aerial sightseeing trip from Lauttasaari through the city center all the way to Kallio. Jump on board.

Have a good trip and enjoy the great view!

Here is #HappyInHelsinki

It's ready. The Happy in Helsinki video. Many thanks to Stephen Penny and Chris Denholm!

For more information on the whole project and possible continuations read the full post from Stephen's blog.

Happy in Helsinki

Happy by Pharrell Williams has inspired people from around the world to make their own video about that song. Stephen Penny is working on a Helsinki version. But he needs your support:

Are you happy? Do you live in or around Helsinki? Do you want to be in a music video? 

If so, we'd like to hear from you! We're creating a #HappyInHelsinki community project and would like both locals and expats to be a part of this project. We'd especially like to hear from you if you have a special talent or skill which you could perform, such as being able to dance. 

Individual participants or groups will need to be able to perform during a continuous 4 minute moving shot. Please see www.24hoursofhappy.com for ideas of what we're after and what you could do. 

If this sounds like you and you'd like to be involved, please contact Steve - stephenrpenny@gmail.com

- UPDATE: The video is ready. You can find it here. -

Say hello via video

Everybody likes receiving postcards and friendly calls. But why don’t you surprise your friends and family next time and send them a video instead. This is now possible from more and more shops and shopping centers in Finland. At the so called JoinMeTube stations you can record a video message and share them via email, Facebook, Twitter or Google+ for free.

JoinMeTube was designed at Aalto University. The aim is to offer a free service for customers and at the same time social media advertisement for companies. That is why there is an ad attached to every video message. You should be aware of that before you share your message. On their Facebook page you can look up where you can find the JoinMeTube stations.