Part Two:
Haukilahti is a small coastal town located in Espoo, west of Helsinki. It has an attractive marina, yacht club and some inviting cafe/bars. It’s not very far from where I’m staying and I came here this evening with Suvi from Destination: Everywhere, a Finnish blogger who I’ve been in contact with through my posts and who I’d been looking forward to meeting for some time.
Southern Finland is experiencing a heatwave at present so we went to Cafe Mellsten which has a lovely sunny beachfront terrace. As it was such a warm evening, the restaurant was crowded but we managed to find an available table on the terrace overlooking the sea. Although we hadn’t met previously, conversation flowed easily, in fact we chatted throughout the evening as if we’d known each other for ages! It was so nice to meet in person as we had been reading and commenting on each other’s blogs for almost a year.
Looking at the menu, we both settled on Goat’s Cheese Salad as it was such a warm evening. The dish arrived beautifully presented and tasted delicious and from the terrace we were in a good position to watch families relaxing on the beach and enjoying a late evening dip in the sea – on such a lovely evening it’s the perfect place to be!
In the above photo you can see us both enjoying our evening together (it’s me on the right). This is my second ‘Bloggers meet up’ and, although I’d never considered the possibility before Susan from Finding NYC kindly invited me to meet her whilst I was in New York City back in January I was keen to do a ‘meet up’ a second time around as meeting Susan had been so successful and so much fun!
From a bitterly cold winter’s evening in New York City to a Finnish heatwave, it was quite a contrast weather wise, but the welcome on both occasions was warm and friendly and I had a splendid time. Thank you Suvi!
I do hope we get an opportunity to meet again in either the UK or Finland but until we do I’ll enjoy reading her posts and if you would like to do so as well, you can pop over to Suvi’s blog.
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So neat to meet up with a local, whom you have meat through blogging. The local scoop on a destination is worth gaining as is the face to face. Thanks for sharing. Allan
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I met as I again a couple of months ago, our third meet up in Helsinki now and hopefully twice next year both in Finland and England. We hit it off immediately which is so nice and are now firm friends!
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I’m a keen reader of Suvi’s blog too – how lovely you managed to meet up. It looks like you picked a beautiful spot and a gorgeous evening too!
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We had a lovely evening together Joy. It’s good to read that you also enjoy reading her posts. Hopefully, we’ll meet up in the future too as we got on so well!
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So fun to read about our meetup on the blog! 😍 You captured it very well, it was like we were old friends! I really enjoyed our evening together and hope you will be coming back to Finland next summer. xx
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Thanks Suvi, I enjoyed it very much too! M xx
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Three great things I can see Marion; you meeting another blogger, table overlooking the sea and that fabulous goat’s cheese salad….great post.
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Thanks Sue! Just let me know when you’re heading this way and we can repeat, that would be nice!
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How nice that you got to meet up 🙂 That salad looks absolutely delicious 😀
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Thank you! It was a lovely evening and after interacting via our blogs for so long it felt as if we already knew each other.
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Great post
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Thank you! We had a great time together. It’s so interesting meeting like minded bloggers in person!
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Hello Marion.
Nice post with beautiful and inviting photos. I enjoyed reading that You have met another bloggers – very thrilling. This part of Espoo is quite unknown to me. My wife has lived in Tapiola and much later we both us in northern part of Espoo.
Happy weekend.
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Hi Matti! Thanks for your kind words. Haukilahti is only a short drive or bus journey from Tapiola – in fact we have walked there via Westend sometimes. Have a nice weekend, M.
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Beautiful! 🙂 Would love to see more of Scandinavia. 🙂
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Ooh, I hope you get an opportunity to visit. The Nordic countries are all beautiful, especially Finland!
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beautiful…..
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Thank you so much – we had a splendid evening together!
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