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

✖️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 💚

✖️EASTER 2021 / MEIKO HIKE / G&T /LONNA DINNER

✖️EASTER 2021 / MEIKO HIKE / G&T /LONNA DINNER
Made the best of this Easter weekend:

✖️Went for the first proper spring hike in the Meiko area of Kirkkonummi, and enjoyed coffee from the top of a cliff, out of @flyingsharkbears hand made kuksa cups. What a perfect moment.
✖️Enjoyed an excellent G&T with the new @fevertreemixers rhubarb and raspberry tonic and @kyrodistillery pink gin. Will continue to make very often. (Products gifted)
✖️Spent the evening preparing and indulging in our #lonnamoment Easter menu - a three course meal from @lonnaisland that was just such a treat. Can’t wait to visit the island and enjoy a dinner on the terrace without having to plate myself 🙈
✖️Stared at sleepy Misu for the longest time, she found her favourite sunbathing spot on the balcony again for the first time today, which definitely means that spring has arrived.

Hope you had a great day 🤍🌲

✖️SPRING FEELINGS Bold move: last week I put a

✖️SPRING FEELINGS
Bold move: last week I put away my winter boots in their hibernating spot under the bed along with my snowsuit, refreshed my hair with some rose gold toned glow and decided it’s time to really embrace April, and since I don’t celebrate Easter, yet still enjoy this long sunny weekend with lots of delicious food and outdoor time! Today I had coffee in the sun with @veerabianca and @sheltiesydney on beautiful Katajanokka and it was glorious. To more days like this!

I’m wearing:
✖️@rcollectionfinland preloved white cotton jumper
✖️@levis 501 cropped jeans
✖️@veja Condor sneakers
✖️@marimekko preloved Pikku Karla bag
✖️Preloved black wool-mix coat

📷 @veerabianca 🤍

✖️31.3.2021 March is going out with a bang.

✖️31.3.2021
March is going out with a bang.

#halo #winterhalo #helsinki #myhelsinki #haloilmiö

✖️HELSINKI WEEKENDS I love a relaxed Helsinki

✖️HELSINKI WEEKENDS
I love a relaxed Helsinki weekend! The last weeks we’ve started to get the terrace ready, did a lot of planting and some spring cleaning, getting stuff organised and plan the things that can be planned at the moment - which is great for a cozy Sunday at home!

Here are a few of my favourite Helsinki Saturday things to do:

✖️My favourite route is from my home island of Jätkäsaari along the seaside all the way to Eiranranta or Uunisaari, and then walk back through Ullanlinna and Punavuori

✖️Grab a good coffee for the road! Some of the best on that walk are as always @brooklyncafeandbakery or @andante_helsinki, at @ramsroasters or @kaffaroastery you can also pick up some coffee beans for the week at home!

✖️Some second hand shopping! On that walk I like to pass by @fidaroba @fasaaniantik and @punavuorenpatina

✖️Pick up some flowers 💐 especially that I’m really craving spring, there’s nothing more refreshing for the mood than to pick up a bouquet of tulips! I love @eirankukkakioski or @wild_things_helsinki

✖️Get ingredients for a nice meal! Dropping by speciality shops like @casaitalia_bulevardi @dafnefoods or @antonanton_fi to treat yourself to some quality ingredients for a tasty weekend meal is my highlight of the weekend. Food 🤍

What’s your favourite Helsinki weekend thing?

The view just never gets old. Happy Wednesday! #

The view just never gets old. Happy Wednesday!

#myhelsinki

✖️HAPPINESS It might not look like it in this

✖️HAPPINESS
It might not look like it in this photo, but I took it to remember this moment when I was all teared up and so full of happiness as I walked in the sunset on the frozen sea with Helsinki as my backdrop and I just couldn’t believe it. It was so beautiful and the moment was just pure magic to me, that I was completely taken by happiness right there.

These days, with Finland ranking yet again as the happiest country (4th time, yay!), I’ve thought a lot about what truly makes us happy, and what happiness even means, and how we all perceive it differently. And how is that different for us foreigners here in Finland, as for the Finns? And around the world! Many questions.

Tomorrow (March 23rd) at 9:00 EET over on Clubhouse we’ll talk a bit about that! Grab a morning coffee and join @pukhrajranjan @evaurora @artosivonen and myself in a little discussion about the topic. Would be great to see you there! And if you’d need an invite to get on to the app, let me know ☺️

#myhelsinki #helsinki #helsinkifreedom #finland #finnland #finnlandliebe #finnishhappiness #suomenonni

✖️LAUTTASAARI & THE RETURN OF THE SWANS After

✖️LAUTTASAARI & THE RETURN OF THE SWANS
After several weeks of grim weather during which I barely left the house, I needed some sun, blue skies, forest & sea therapy and a long walk SO badly. I finally got around to show @frankycalls the beauty of happy island Lauttasaari, which is just stunning around the southern shore. It seemed like the swans came out just for us 🤍

✖️SUN IS OUT Going for a walk in the sunshine

✖️SUN IS OUT
Going for a walk in the sunshine soon, can’t wait. ☀️ that’s all 🤍

✖️ LAMMASSAARI & KUUSILUOTO It's been so extre

✖️ LAMMASSAARI & KUUSILUOTO
It's been so extremely windy here in Jätkäsaari that it really hasn't been nice at all to be outside the last week. At least the crazy winds have slowed down a bit now but it’s so wet and slushy that it’s the reminder of why I hate this time of year in Finland! All the better, that I managed to catch a bit of the gorgeous springish-winter day last week with a little outing to Lammassaari.

This was one of my first discoveries back in the day when I moved here, and it's still one of the urban nature places I treasure the most. Walking on the wooden planks, surrounded by the swamps, sea grass and the water, while you can still see the city in the background, is such a unique feeling! I brought some coffee and it was fantastic. You should go too some time.

Have a lovely rest of your weekend!

✖️A COZY CABIN GETAWAY The last week was stres

✖️A COZY CABIN GETAWAY
The last week was stressful for many reasons, so when @frankycalls asked me on Tuesday if I wanted to join her and @oonanas for a spontaneous nature retreat just out of Helsinki, it was just what I needed. We spent the last days tucked away in the woods of Kirkkonummi, with lots of delicious food, sauna, deep conversations, a tiny hike, some wine by the fireplace, watching the snow fall outside - and I just feel so content and ready for the next week ahead. Sometimes a little time-out is just what you need, and a safe way to do it is to escape into nature. Definitely have to remember to do this more often 🤍thank you for the loveliest weekend! 🌳🌲❄️

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