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I'm originally from Luxembourg, but have been living in Helsinki since 2010. Join me here to discover the local food scene, urban nature and life as an expat entrepreneur in Helsinki!

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kathrindeter

✖️Luxembourgish 🇱🇺 / Helsinki since 2010 🇫🇮
✖️Restaurants, Food, Nature & Travel
✖️Pastry expert and Pasta eating professional

Happy Helsinki Friday 🤍 #myhelsinki

Happy Helsinki Friday 🤍 #myhelsinki

✖️QUIET MORNINGS Have a great start to your we

✖️VAPPU 2021 Hosting lovely people is one of m

✖️VAPPU 2021
Hosting lovely people is one of my favourite things, and Vappu this year was a lovely occasion to host a small brunch party! After the wild years of celebrating student vappu parties in the parks and around the city, a cozy get together at home with delicious food is almost as good 😉with bubbles and potato salads, salmon and sausages, delicious bread and everything else, it was such a feast. Thanks for joining @frankycalls @oonanas 🤍🥳🥂hopefully you had a lovely May Day!

Misu napped through the party and only arrived after all the salmon was gone. Sad times.

✖️HAUSKAA VAPPUA! Have a great Vappu celebrati

✖️HAUSKAA VAPPUA!
Have a great Vappu celebration! Even without a big party we can still enjoy these two day with lots of bubbles and delicious food (and by that I mean Munkki) 🤍🥳

✖️KATAJANOKKA STREETS Most underrated place fo

✖️KATAJANOKKA STREETS
Most underrated place for walks to pretty places. Often overlooked by both visitors and many locals, even though it’s literally right there 😃 especially you architecture lovers, go for a Katajanokka walk ASAP.

#myhelsinki

✖️MORNING COFFEE For about 4 years, I’ve had

✖️MORNING COFFEE
For about 4 years, I’ve had a pretty consistent morning coffee ritual - and the first sip is always just the best thing of the day. For most part of these years it’s now been a french press coffee, which works wonderfully with the @pauligfi Watsa kahwi, but this weekend we tried the new silky Juhla Mokka (which comes in a cute little package, perfect for a mökki weekend away) - and I really enjoyed that too! The original Juhla Mokka is too bitter for me but this was super nice and smooth.

If you like your coffee with milk: I got an electric milk foamer when my coffee ritual started all these years ago, thinking it’s probably just gonna be another useless gadget - but I’ve used it every single day at home since. It immediately elevates the coffee experience and is totally worth getting!

And with an ode to morning coffee as I sip my first cup, have a great Monday and week ahead!

* @pauligfi french press and coffee kindly gifted ☕️ #paulig #pauligfi #juhlamokka

✖️BIRTHDAY MÖKKI WEEKEND Thank you all for th

✖️BIRTHDAY MÖKKI WEEKEND
Thank you all for the lovely birthday wishes yesterday, it made my heart so happy! I was hiding away in a cozy Finnish retro cabin, enjoyed sauna and ice swimming, slept so long, got the apple cake of my dreams from @flyingsharkbear and was just all in all filled with so much joy. I’ve loved getting older so far! Here’s to 32!

✖️SCANDIC GRAND CENTRAL HELSINKI HOTEL Last w

✖️STORY RESTAURANT LUNCH / WHAT MAKES YOU HAPP

✖️STORY RESTAURANT LUNCH / WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
After many weeks of restaurant lockdown in Finland, I had my first lunch out today, enjoying a best of seasonal veggies and pan-fried salmon in mussels and saffron sauce, at @storyrestaurants. As I sat there at my table, watching people walk by, hearing the seagulls outside the market hall, I was just so filled with joy! It's maybe a bit weird, but a delicious lunch in the city, by myself, is pure bliss. I've always enjoyed it a lot, of course, company is always nice, but there is something special about being out on your own.

This week I've been talking and thinking a lot about the little things. What is something small and seemingly insignificant that makes you just thoroughly happy that you could cry? A morning coffee in the sun? Finding your favourite flowers at the shop? I couldn't really decide. Morning coffee with my loved one on the balcony is probably always going to be the most special. Yet this lunch today was exceptional ❤️

✖️LUNCH IN THE WILD I took @evaurora out for a

✖️LUNCH IN THE WILD
I took @evaurora out for a birthday hike to the Kolmen Lammen Kierros in Hyvinkää this last weekend and made it my mission to also provide a tasty outdoors lunch - I think I did pretty well 🙈 Often enough I tend to just grab a sandwich from whatever shop on the way and it’s just never the experience I dream of, so this was the perfect opportunity to change that! And it’s pretty easy to have an easy but just delicious forest meal! I also extended my collection of @kupilka_official dishes for the occasion and I just love them.

Here’s what I had on the menu:

- vegan pea soup from @sesonkipuoti and some rustic baguette
- Karelian pies also from @sesonkipuoti and they are just the best
- some delicious chicken sausages from @hk_fi *gifted
- coffee with oat milk and munkki for dessert 🤍

Definitely inspired to step up my outdoor cooking and meal game! It just filled me with happiness 😌

✖️HELSINKI SPRING FEELINGS Once in a while all

✖️HELSINKI SPRING FEELINGS
Once in a while all you need to do is take a moment and appreciate this view. #myhelsinki

✖️HIKING SEASON 2021 / FAVOURITE HIKES IN THE

✖️HIKING SEASON 2021 / FAVOURITE HIKES IN THE HELSINKI AREA
I mean I love to be in nature year-round but it definitely slows down between November and March. Many hiking trails turn into cross-country skiing, there’s not great winter maintenance or sometimes it’s just too cold or meh in that season. So as soon as the first sign of spring hits: this will be my face.

It smells of pine and you can just feel the forest coming alive again. I’m planning hikes for the spring and summer, and I just can’t wait. The great thing both Helsinki is that you can find pure nature just in or around the city, for some you don’t need a car and if you have a car, you have almost endless possibilities.

TOP 3 HELSINKI NATURE SPOTS
✖️Seurasaari
✖️Lammassaari & Kuusiluoto
✖️Vuosaari - Uutela

TOP 3 GREATER HELSINKI HIKES
✖️Porkkalanniemi
✖️Meiko - Kirkkonummi
✖️Luukki - Espoo

I could go on for sure! Thank you to @evaurora for always having great ideas, and to @outinthenaturecom who really do great work on their website for outdoor lovers and those looking for great nature spots 💚

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