We are a small family, with a 3-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old cat. My husband is Finnish, and I am from Ukraine. We live in a small town Seinäjoki, which is 400 km from Helsinki, in a small 3-room cityhouse apartment with its own terrace bordering the forest. Neighbors in front, behind and on the side are very friendly and good people. I love our apartment especially in spring and summer, when in the morning and in the evening you can hear the loud singing of birds. When you can hide from your neighbors and sit on a sunchair in front of the forest and watch the trees sway in the wind (and if you aren’t afraid mosquitos😂) In the summer, we ride a lot on bicycles, there are forests, park areas everywhere. About 600 meters from us is very small, but beautiful Pajuluoma river, along which you can walk along a 2-kilometer path between the trees, 300 meters a forest area with a 5 km long paved path (in winter it serves as a track for cross-country skiing, but depends on weather conditions), Lake Kyrkösjärvi 4 km, where you can swim in the summer, ride along the lake by bike (the length of the walk is about 23 km), the picturesque park Törnävä (Östermytä) on both sides of the Seinäjoki river, with rushing rapids, with a sunny manor house Törnävä (entrance closed during the Povinssi summer festival, several days) and its outbuildings, the history of which dates back to 200 years, the charming Törnävä church, rebuilt from a powder warehouse. In the city center, at a distance of 5 km, there is a unique architectural complex of the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
What we have: a car, 4 adult bicycles, a tent, backpacks and camping utensils.
What you can do:
Frying sausages in kota or lava, trekking (here they even developed a route for 100 km of hiking tourism, there are beautiful wooden paths laid in the swamps), delicious food in restaurants, visiting small and large zoos, sunbathing, if the weather smiles, drinking a glass of wine on terrace, grill food, go camping with a tent, travel by car, ride bicycles (from short to long routes, for example. 100 km one way, to interesting and even mystical tourist attractions in nature), consider every detail in buildings Alvara Aalto), play mini golf, Foitzbigolf. For small children, there are a lot of parks, Hop-Lop, Dudson park. But still it is a small place, not suit for museums lovers or shopping lovers. Our apartment suits also only for small families, like we are, bed places for comfortable sleeping are only for 2 adults and one or two child’s, but if you need, you could get also more bed places from livingroom.