14 HOUR OVERNIGHT sleeper train to LAPLAND (Santa Claus Express)
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2023
- Join us as we experience local Finnish fast food and try our first Hesburger before jumping on a 14 hour overnight train journey into the Arctic Circle.
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Ash's "kippis" was spot on in the beginning! 👍Its a double consonant with the "p", and the weight is akways on the first syllable. Many foreigners dont get double vowels and consonants, therefore speaking too fast.
Pro tip: The slower you speak, the better your Finnish sounds 😅
Well at least we found one Finnish word we can pronounce correctly 😂 it is quite a difficult language! Thanks for watching 😀
Great video & what a brilliant experience! We're about to watch your next two Lapland videos, looks so beautiful ❄️
Thank you 😀going to Lapland in mid October gave us a head start in getting into the festive spirit 😂
I believe I would enjoy such experience. Travelling to Lapland in such a train; showering in this narrow shower cabin. ❄❄❄❄🌨🌨⛄❄❄❄
It was an amazing experience! A great way to travel to Lapland 😃 it was a narrow shower cabin 😂 thanks for watching!
Im a Finn and I have enjoyed your upbeat Finnish travel videos!
Thank you very much 😀 it’s great you enjoyed the video and hope you join us for the next one 👍
This video came at the perfect time were just about to book this train 😮 can’t wait 😝
Aw so glad to hear! The train is a great experience 😄 when are you planning to visit Lapland? Such an amazing place
@AshAndDan. January/ February
@@FinMeg amazing! Like getting a second Christmas 🎅🏻🎄
@@AshAndDan. that’s the plan WOOO 🥳 🎅🏼
Well I'm here because RUclips gave me a video of the same same train with 3.5 million views but I just couldn't get on with it and only watched 10 mins. Yours came up next and is much more by cuppa tea in presenting style. Look forward to watching your other videos guys PS love the top/fleece? You have in Ash on the train. Very Nordic!
Thank you so much for your kind words! It really means a lot and we are so pleased to hear you enjoyed our video! ☺️ and glad to hear you like the fleece… as we are travelling with minimal luggage it will feature in many of our vlogs to come 😂
Do not double dip if you share the food with someone else. There are no nice night trains from Turku, there are trains with bigger cabins and showers from Helsinki. You can also take a car on the train. Do you think a bear in a beer can is a reindeer? I will follow your journey with interest...
Haha I agree with the double dipping 😂 the train was very nice from Turku and we had a shower in our cabin all the way from Turku to Rovaniemi 👍thanks again for watching and hope you enjoy our journey through Finland 😀
I would Love to visit Santa's village in Rovaniemi Lapland one day soon with my daughter & grandson . Thanks for these wonderful video's
They would absolutely love it 😀 we were excited as adults so I imagine kids would be even more excited! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video 😀
amazing trains
Was very comfortable, affordable and a great way to travel! I do love travelling by train 😀 thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed the video!
Hesburger (278 restaurants in Finland alone) is pretty good and cheap. Scanburger, somewhat smaller (~100 around the country), also okay. "Friends & Brgrs" is a small chain (29 places) but they make everything by hand and of real ingredients. Both Burger King and McDonalds in Finland (in everywhere) are really bad.
I don't yet know whether you tasted "poronkäristys" (sautéed reindeer), with potato mash and mashed lingoberry or cranberry. Some people are disgusted at the thought but the locals have eaten reindeer for thousands of years.
The other traditional Lappish dishes are salmon soup, leipäjuusto (bread cheese) often with cloudberry jelly and coffee, and ohrarieska - barley flatbread. The super-expensive Japanese mushroom, matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake, tuoksuvalmuska in Finnish) grows in Lapland. Many other mushrooms are especially tasty when they grow in Lapland.
Thanks for telling us more about Finland- it’s always interesting to learn!
We did try hesburger and thought it was decent enough! The others we saw but did not try!
We never tried the reindeer!
However we did try the cheese, salmon soup and the cloudberry jam which were all excellent!
Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed the video 😀
Well If you gonna eat at Hesburger somewhere it's Finland, Turku (where you are) as that's where the chain originates from.
We did read that it started in Turku. We wondered if the branch we went to was their first one? It was a decent enough meal, not sure about Ash dipping her fries into the milkshake though 😂 thanks for watching!
@@AshAndDan. The first one was in Hansa shopping mall next to Turku market square in the 80s. The shopping mall still exist but the OG Hesburger does not.
Beautiful video, as I get to try it myself in a week from now. I was wondering if the shower water was warm enough or not? Also if you thought renting a car in Rovaniemi was a good idea or not at this time of the year, as I am not sure how driving is like, with all the snow they have in the winter?
Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment! How exciting, the train is an awesome way to get there. Shower was definitely warm and plenty water for us both! We didn’t hire a car, we just used public transport which was easy and reliable. 😁 hope you join us in the next one for more adventures in Lapland!
Thanks, I watched your video at the Santa Claus Village, and was really informative.@@AshAndDan.
Hi a Finn here. This year winter arrived early in Lapland, I wouldn't recommend renting a car, unless you are used to driving in arctic conditions :)
Was there a particular reason that you travelled to Turku to take the Santa Claus Express when it departs from Helsinki too?
Thanks for your comment 😄 we were due to spend some time in Turku but our plans changed. From Turku it actually worked out slightly cheaper as well! It did mean we had to get an extra bus from Helsinki to Turku but this was only €5pp on FlixBus.
@@AshAndDan. 😎 Hopefully you can still get to see Turku, as it's worth the visit. 🙂
I don't know if dipping fries into milkshakes is a thing. If it is, it should be outlawed. Glad you opted for karhu beer though! It's one of the better ones. Avoid lapin kulta beer - we call it reindeer piss.
It’s Dan here and I fully agree dipping fries into milkshakes should be a crime! 😂 I had only heard of Karhu the sneaker brand rather than the beer before going to Finland, but the beer was very good I must admit! Thanks for watching 😀
@@AshAndDan. The 3 stripes from Adidas are originally from Karhu brand.
I did know this actually! Can’t believe it! I also believe Karhu sold a style to the brand Merrell also?
@@AshAndDan. Karhu owned Merelli brand 1987-97
Never bought the soft icecream in say mcdonnals and dipped the fries in it? It's actually realy good. Kinda taste like waffles and icecream. But it has to be vanilla softcream though.
This is in the capitel city in finland im going to finland soon so im gonna eat there😮😮
Awesome! Hope you enjoy it as much as we did 😊