hidden treasure helsinki

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Who am I?

 

I'm Esin Aamutuuli a 31-year-old Helsinkian. It was year 2011 when Finland was chosen as the World Design Capital for the year 2012. That time I noticed that all Finland had to offer for travelers were very typical touristic attractions. 

 

I spend my early twenties traveling around the world. My main goal was to search from different cities things that I liked. Not what travel books were telling me to do. I wanted to live like locals. Or I wanted to be like local.

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When I settled down in Finland (for some years) I wanted to help people visiting Helsinki to live like one of us - urban Helsinki citizens. That way you really experience the real Helsinki. Helsinki is much more than cathedrals. And an extremely expensive city. 

 

I created a blog called Helsinki for Urban Travelers (HFUT). And it was a hit. Obviously people needed this. It surprised me.

 

HFUT became a project I loved to create, but then suddenly I became just too busy as I performed in tv-serie and made a couple of documentaries at same time. Oh, and studied and worked in a bar. Then I just had enough and I lost interest in writing. I moved to Berlin and tried to find lost inspiration. Luckyly I got in a project called One Baltic Sea Region (OneBSR) which was funded by European Union. But then still I couldn't set the flame for writing.

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But now I'm back. Finally. I want to continue writing about my beautiful and playful Helsinki! And you might now wonder what that "Helsinki is boring" quote is about? We all can't love the same things for sure, but a Helsinki visitor has written at Reddit that Helsinki is boring, and yes, let's keep the beauty, the cleaness, the playfullness, all those parties, people with great humor, forests filled with free food as our little secret. Paris, Berlin, New York - all got ruined. We still have this boring Helsinki city!

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The best thing with Helsinki is that it changes all the time in a good and bad way. That's the reason this page is breathing and developing all the time. Stay tuned my friend!

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I have created this web-page on my own and haven't got any funding for it. This page is my respect towards Finland's 100 years of independency in 2017!

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Lots of love,

Esin

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Note! If you use Hidden Treasure Helsinki -page as your source, please mention it when publishing! This page is created to help you to figure out Helsinki, but everything is (c) Esin Aamutuuli. If you find this page helpful for your publication, would be highly recommend to mention the source. 

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There has been a public rumor that Finland doesn't know how to market itself. So I accepted the challenge. I started this alternative and independent travel page to help create an identity to Helsinki - and first of all: to make traveling to Helsinki more interesting. I love my city and I want to share the best bits with you!