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  • Ultimate Turku Summer Guide: What to Do, See & Eat

    Ultimate Turku Summer Guide: What to Do, See & Eat

    August 31, 2025March 6, 2026 Travel guides

    From a local who was born and raised here. If you’re planning your trip to Finland and wondering, “Where should I go besides Helsinki?” let me introduce you to one of Finland’s most charming cities: Turku. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these…

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This changed everything for me 👇🏼 In my 20s, all This changed everything for me 👇🏼

In my 20s, all I wanted was to move away. I dreamed about traveling as far away from Finland as possible... preferably somewhere with palm trees.

Meanwhile, I thought Finland was boring, ugly, and honestly had nothing worth seeing (I know... younger me had absolutely no idea what she was talking about 😅)

Then 2020 happened.

A major back surgery, followed by 🦠 forced me to stay in Finland. Looking back, that unexpected change of plans ended up changing my life for the better.

Since I couldn't travel, I figured... I might as well start exploring my own country.

What I didn't expect was this...

I fell in love with it 🥹

I discovered beautiful places I'd never even heard of, hidden gems I couldn't believe had been there all along, and a completely different side of Finland that I'd spent years overlooking.

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"If I had no idea these places existed, maybe other people don't either."

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Just to clarify... These are obviously still com Just to clarify... 

These are obviously still completely normal to me. I'll happily eat a whole bag of salmiakki in one sitting, and I won't apologize for it 😂

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These are some of the things I always buy from Finnish grocery stores as a local, so save this for your next Finland trip!

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If a friend told me they were visiting Turku, this If a friend told me they were visiting Turku, this is exactly where I'd send them 🫡

These are the places I keep coming back to 🤌🏼✨️

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Sounds pretty perfect to me, surely I can't be the Sounds pretty perfect to me, surely I can't be the only one?? 😅

During midsummer I spent my first nights at our summer cottage and I'm already planning when I can go back 🫶🏼

Imagine this: waking up to the sound of birds, drinking your morning coffee on the dock while the sea is completely still, no traffic, no noise, just you and nature.

The sauna is already warming up for the evening, there's blueberries growing in the forest behind the cabin, and the only plans you have are… well, no plans at all 🙏😎

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