Finland Travel Blogs

... very busy, fair enough, it is early evening, everything pretty straightforward, passport control, (our visas had been obtained in Finland), then it was off to claim our baggage. First encounter with a Bakseesh collector, he wanted to collect the case I ...

A travel blog entry from Turenki by jimandtarja
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I'm taking off today and can't wait to hit up Sweden!!!  Finland was entirely uneventful and I wish I had used the opportunity to get better rested but it was cool to see a familiar face after Russia.  Yan joins me for breakfast at the local ...

A travel blog entry from Mariehamn by madman96
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I have a sleeper cabin so I'm out like Janet Jackson's nipple... yeah, I know that was bad!  Anyways, I slept like a baby and woke up just a few kilometers out of Helsinki.  I resurface at the Helsinki train station around mid-day, well ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by madman96
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... local pizzeria that makes a great 'za. We head back to his house and hit the sauna, because apparently every house in Finland has a sauna inside.  I can only imagine how amazing that is in the dead of winter when its colder than ice outside.  ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by madman96
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... sleeping in the hostel. Rick couldn't wipe the grin off his face. We caught our ritziest mode of transport yet across to Finland, a short three hour cruise ship ride away. On boarding what we thought was going to be a boring ferry we were surprised to ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by eatdessertfirst
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Flight to Helsinki went really smoothly. I slept most of the way... and it was a pretty long flight. It seemed shorter than Hobart to Sydney. Who needs first class? There they'd just be waking me up all the time for the free champagne. Helsinki from ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by budz888
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Waking up late we make ourselves a nice breakfast and head downtown to do a walking tour of Helsinki.  We check out the local market where we try some local sweets and then head over to Suomen Linna island to play around in the old fort and ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by madman96
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We took the ferry across from Tallinn to Helsinki where we met up with Nick´s friend Noel for a stroll around the beautiful harbour and later for dinner. The next day we couldn´t find accommodation anywhere in Helsinki, so stayed in a little town called ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by aussierach
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... , but it is also the most expensive of the three Baltic capital cities. The next day we caught the ferry over to Finland. We didn't think Helsinki was an especially interesting nor attractive city, so we spent the time shopping to stock up on supplies ...

A travel blog entry from Barcelona to Helsinki by marc-patty
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It was about time visiting...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by stevefn
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... every building we saw, our Finnish lady guide had a story to tell about it where the hero was a woman. Not only does Finland have a women president (Tarja Halonen), but women also comprise of 60% of the population. One of the strangest things we saw ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by worldramblings
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Finland is famous for its lakes and Santa Claus. We chose to visit the lakes... We found a cheap hut in the small town of Oravi adjacent Linnasarri National Park, a network of over 100 islands. Unfortunately we booked to arrive on the only day the bus ...

A travel blog entry from Oravi by mightylongway
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We arrived in Helsinki after a pleasant cruise across the Baltic Sea and checked into our hostel in the former 1952 Olympic Stadium (soon to host the 2005 World Athletic Championships). Helsinki is a superclean and functioning city. After travelling ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by mightylongway
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... I jumped on another boat and took a three hour ride to old Porvoo, so that I would see at least one other town in Finland. It was worth the effort to get up early to catch another boat, because it brought me through the vast archipeligo that makes up the ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by charmedlife
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We set the alarm early so we could enjoy a sauna before checking out Helsinki and found the separate male and female saunas to be very, well ....intimate. Nudity all round as Megs had flash backs of Luang Prabang. These Nordic people definitely aren't ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by eatdessertfirst
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... to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move - Robert Louis Stevenson · Helsinki, Finland. · Prague time +1hr · Days to get to Prague - 7 Slow down Whenever I think back to Helsinki I seem to remember only ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by byrnedm
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I managed to scrape together a few precious hours sleep on the ferry before making into Turku in Finland by 8am. Once there I caught the bus into the fresh looking local town square that had a massive market bustling. I strolled around here down by the ...

A travel blog entry from Turku by jag
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Rovaniemi

A travel blog entry from Rovaniemi by jag
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In Helsinki I was fortunate to find a cool hostel near the centre. I took to the streets immediately to check out the sights. The most impressive was the Tuomiokirkko a huge presence of a cathedral in the main square. Helsinki like Turku also housed a ...

A travel blog entry from Helsinki by jag
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A travel blog entry from Helsinki by jag
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... you are doing, then make sure that at least one hand is on that sled! There are wilderness huts scattered througout the north of Finland that are provided for the use of anyone. The rule is the most tired person has the right to the hut. So if an ...

A travel blog entry from Muonio by shmikes
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... dance. This guy was giving me the Finn grr. Door-men finally showed up and kicked him out. I returned to enjoying Finland, which had included enjoying that guy's knee to my stomach. (It hadn't hurt.) Most people in the nightclub were ...

A travel blog entry from Kemi by modernoddyseus
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... here in the north for over three weeks now after spending a week in the south visiting friends and seeing some of eastern Finland. The moment we pulled off the ferry in Helsinki we burst out laughing because the dozens of times we have been in Helsinki ...

Moi The last week or so has flown by along with the kms. After Poland we headed to Vilnius Lithuania, nice quaint city with spectacular churches (more churches than people I think). In the evening we visited the hill of crosses which was a moving ...

Ok, from Ivalo it was a little bit harder, even though it is much larger than Inari. Still, I managed to get a ride from the 152nd car in the 65th minute, from a very quiet Finnish guy who was only going as far as Sariselkä, some 40 kilometers south of ...

At last!! Pictures of resident birds of konnevesi! A wonderful crested tit, who unfortunately puts its crest down when you handle it, nonetheless, i have fulfilled another thing on my list, now i just need to go and see those owls!

Hyvät naiset ja herrat! Tätä on jotkut toivoneet, suurin osa pelännyt ja nyt se on viimein tapahtumassa! Nimittäin tässä tulee travellerhansin matkapäiväkirjan paluu, return of the travellerhans travel blåg! Enimmäkseen tullaan taas menemään aiheen ohi ja rytinällä, ...

... back into the Café Esplande on our way back and got Jim a Cinnamon Roll - so he would at least have a little something to remember Finland by.  He enjoyed his day on a quiet ship - he went to the gym, relaxed on the balcony and started reading a new ...

Lapland - an Arctic Adventure - Arrival Exploring the Arctic in winter had always been a dream of ours. Lapland offers just that. A mere 200,000 people live in finnish Lapland (the size of Netherlands and Belgium taken together). Far from the nearest ...

Lapland - Second snow shoeing excursion This was a second day at our free disposal.  As we could have breakfast at our lodge, we took it easy.  The day was overcast. It looked as if it was going to snow. Finally, we once again set out ...