Helsinki, Finland Travel Blogs

Helsinki
May 25, 2008 (6 photos)

...  We leave my luggage in the train station baggage hold and head to a traditional Finnish summer festival in a park in downtown Helsinki.  The festival is pretty cool and we get to catch some live Finnish music, eat some Finnish food, and mingle ...

One more day in Finland...
May 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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.  ...

If You cant Beat 'em, Join 'em
Jan 28, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Helsinki
Jul 18, 2008

... 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 the air looked just like the cover of my Finnish grammar book...

Chillin in Helsinki
May 26, 2008 (10 photos)

... and move downtown to play some pool and drink some beers with his buddies.  It seems like pool is a fan favorite here in Helsinki.  His buddies are good people and we do a mini bar crawl that doesn't take us too far.  At closing time, his ...

Helsinki and Poorvoo
Aug 22, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 Poorvoo, some of which dates from the 1300´s.

Barcelona to Helsinki overland
Aug 22, 2005 (8 photos)

... 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 before ...

Anyone for a slowcooked bear steak?
Jul 30, 2009 (13 photos)

It was about time visiting...

Helsinki there are two ferry services from ...
Aug 2, 2001 (3 photos)

... Helsink... It was actually the Temppelioukio Church, built into a pile of rocks. Other highlighs of Helsinki included:- The Uspenski Cathederal Senate Square Helsinki University The Presidential Palace Paul had read that films in ...

Where everything works
Jul 26, 2005 (1 photos)

... 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 through Asia and India for so long we found the helpful tourist ...

Fast Fun in Finland
Jul 18, 2007

... this was admittedly a quick visit. I took the fast ferry, just one and a half hours from Tallinn and spent two nights in Helsinki. The morning after I arrived into the u-shaped harbor, I jumped on another boat and took a three hour ride to old Porvoo, so ...

Thieves go to Hell!
Jan 29, 2006 (12 photos)

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 ...

Euroland. A fleeting glimpse
Mar 1, 2006 (12 photos)

... not 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 ...

Finland baby
Jul 21, 2008 (12 photos)

... , Estonia enjoying the fine sandy beaches and much more tolerable temperatures. Tallinn was our final stop over before heading to Helsinki. Our last night in the Baltic was spent in the old town in a medieval restaurant enjoying the massive Deer feast. ...

Corny
Aug 19, 1999 (5 photos)

... 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 market, this time on the docks that was very colourful and full of life. I ended up having a ...

Helsinki
Dec 23, 2000 (5 photos)

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Hello Helsinki ... Hello Rain
Sep 2, 2008 (35 photos)

... 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 ...

Helsinki
Oct 28, 2006

... up Pohjoisesplanadi, past the Presidential Palace & then hit the City Museum on Sofiankatu where there's a permanent exhibition entitled "Helsinki Horizons" which creates an overall picture of the city in three realms - the Swedish era, the Russian era ...

Still before the storm..
Sep 2, 2009

090209 Helsinki. Finland. Viimeiset valmistelut stadissa ja Memmulla parin paivan piinaava odotus.. Lahdon ajankohta loppuun asti epaselva joten moikattiin viela kavereita ennen h-hetkea. Torstaina sitten viimein Helsinki-Vantaalle ja odottamaan jo ...

Leaving Europe
Feb 4, 2008 (6 photos)

The bus arrived at the airport half an hour later. We quickly walked through the security check and had a cup of coffee while waiting for the plane. This time it was Ingrid and my turn to go to the bathroom, and I must say that Finnish bathrooms are quite ...

Helsinki
May 7, 2007

... African guy who will be on the same exact train as us from Moscow to Mongolia, pretty random. We took the ferry to Helsinki, got here yesterday around 4 PM. Everything weve heard about Helsinki is that its not very fun, so were not planning on doing ...

Helsinki
Sep 28, 2006 (38 photos)

... Finland gained its independence in 1917, after under the Russian rule for 110 years. Prior to that, Finland was ruled by Sweden for some 750 years. Helsinki (population of Greater Helskinki 1.2M) is the capital city, across the Gulf of Finland from ...

Paluu arkeen
Feb 5, 2008 (2 photos)

Kotimatka Santiagosta Madridin kautta Helsinkiin kesti takseineen 25 tuntia. Madridin lennon aikana ehdimme hämmästellä useaan otteeseen Iberian lentohenkilökuntaa, jonka tylyys voitti jopa Finnairin Bangkokin lennon lentoemot. 13-tuntisen matkan aikana oli ...

Sweating in Helsinki
Aug 23, 2009 (7 photos)

... Finnish company produced rubber boots - useful trivia for a pub quiz, eh? All I knew about this country when I touched down at Helsinki airport, was its geographical location and the fact that its fra north is home to a portly, bearded old man in a red ...

The road to Tallinn
May 29, 2008

... i required i got a bus from Tornio to Kemi for Eur5 and in Kemi i got the overnight train to Helsinki. Unfortunately my student card didn't work in Finland, only Finnish student cards will work, so i had to pay the full fare of Eur70. Still the trains were ...

Richard Crazy Estonian and arrival in Helsinki
May 10, 2005 (1 photos)

... ticket for one-way trip to Tallinn = 250eek,aus$25,13€ the bikes were an additional 80eek. The trip took 3.5 hours. Helsinki...and Jonna, her sister Katija and their father were there with a van to pick us. Some big hellos were exchanged with hugs ...

There and back again
Sep 11, 2006 (3 photos)

... in the city. I met them after some quite necessary shopping (CDs, DVD and another old book by Aleksis Kivi - couldn't leave Finland without them!) in the squirrel island, that Stephanie wanted to see and I saw just quickly because as soon as I got there ...

Just another piece
Sep 9, 2006 (3 photos)

... upon an used bookstore and bargained for an old copy of the kalevala, now I just have to learn to read it... Back in Helsinki, I joined Jutta and some of her friends for partying - some bottles of wine at home and then an Irish pub which had some live ...

All the way to Helsinki (Espoo), a great one!
Aug 18, 2006 (24 photos)

... there. It's only later that we all moved to meet with another girl HC member (with somehow a typical Finnish behaviour... or Helsinki one which include mainly having conversation about sex... anyway). We went downtown for a drink on a terrass as the sun ...

Helsinki
Aug 4, 2005 (16 photos)

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