Turku
Travel Blogs from Turku, Finland
Turku
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 ...
Lähtötunnelmissa
Noniin, lähtö lähenee pikkuhiljaa... Vihdoin ja viimein alkaa itselläkin olemaan mahassa tunne että taas sitä mennään. Tajusin vasta tänään että lähtö on lähellä kun pesin snorkkelia/maskia ja vaelluskenkiä. ...
Preparations
Matkustus tapahtuu aina itsekkäistä syistä. Niin tälläkin kertaa. Nyt lähdetään juhlimaan Memmun kolmekymppisiä Ilarin ja Memmun tyyliin. Rinkan, passin ja hammasharjan lisäksi varustelistalla : 2 x Housut 2 x Alushousut 2 x Sukat 2 x T-Paita 1 ...
Day 0 - preliminary schedule
day 0 (09.7.): Train to Helsinki, Superfast departs from Helsinki at 22.00 EEST day 1 (10.7.): Superfast arrives in Rostock at 21.30 CEST, ride out of Rostock day 2 (11.7.): Ride to Dannenberg (Elbe) / Dömitz / Vietze day 3 (12.7.): Ride ...
Finland by boat!
I took an overnight boat to Turku, Finland. It only cost me 10 bucks each way! It was a large ferry, more like a cruise ship. I will post some pictures as soon as I find a computer with a usb port. It was a little rainy in Turku, but none the less ...
Turku
... ;ená i finská sauna, kterou jsme chtěli navštívit večer). Navštívili jsme zato trh v Turku - kauppahalli. Oproti plánu budeme muset vyrazit už v noci, abychom stihli vyzvednout klíče od chatky v Laponsku. Takze ...
Helsinki to Turku
... talked with you and even initiated conversation, much more than the Norweigen and Swedish people that we encountered. We drove to Turku that night and decided to take the cheap route, crash at a Hostel. It was a great price and ...
Conclusion!
... .09 - ? Turku. Finland Back home! Paluu kotiin tapahtui 104 päivää lähdön jälkeen (03.09.09-16.12.09). Romppeet roudattiin ...
What a mix of emotions!
... times. It was only after the final whistle that the girls found out they were through in third place and meeting Finland on Thursday in Turku (they actually get to stay in the same place for the next game!). Rachel Brown told us that they wished they had ...
more trains and not much else
Last night Scott intetnetted on his phone for good places to see in Finland, we came up with Turku so that's where we went today - down the entire length of Finland to the far South West(via Kemi, Oulu and Tampera for train connection fans). After a ...
The End.
... ; Turku. Finland. "And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain..." Paluu kotiin tapahtui päivälleen ...
Tiredness high, sarcasm high.
... an hour at midnight packing each individual item of her stuff and then got up at 4 to do the same before leaving. grrr Turku was billed as a historic town of great interest... umm... there's a nice cathedral and some galleries but overall i was not a ...
Joukossa alusten...
... 1087;аром до Стокгольма) ********** We arrived in Turku on the bus. The beautiful port city with a central street, the castle and the quay, which is more like ...
OK, my puns are bad, so Suomi!
... very expensive for what I actually wanted to see, so I ended up not bothering. Minna did give me a guided tour of some of Turku's rather more...unusual bars. There was a bar converted from an old school, two converted from banks, one from a pharmacy (with ...
My kingdom for a phone call
... no public phones here at all?' 'Hahaha, you are in Finland now' 'But I was in other places in Finland and could find public phones' 'Hahaha, but not in Turku' 'So what does someone do when he has to call someone and has no mobile?' 'Hahaha, are you ...
Scissors, glue, but also tears and worries!
... are filled with colouring, making space ships and other creative stuff. And I love it ;-)) In between thesis-writing we also visit Turku center, eat at her mum's place and go to Ruissola for fresh air, look at famous Turlu Castle and find chestnuts ...
A long Ferry ride, long sleep and Finland
... though, also playing some paper game with Laura and the 12h ferry ride finally reached its goal as we went offshore in Turku. My first steps in Finland, some goodbye to Rosa and catching a bus to the center. There we waited a little for someone to give ...
Ferry To Turku, Finland
... and it was so neat so see all these little islands with only a couple of houses on them. Our main goal of arriving at Turku was to check out the ship yards where they make Royal Caribbean Cruise ships. After a little bit of a hike to the hotel we ...
Mikołaj na wakacjach!
... ; się wraz ze swoją żoną. Po krótkim zwiedzaniu Helsinek udaliśmy się do Turku, dawnej stolicy Finlandii. Tutejsza architektura również nie powaliła nas na kolana... Wszytko to wynagrodzili nam jednak spotkani na ...
Houston, mamy problem!
... 347; miasto i sprawdzimy czy przejdzie". No, jak widać przeszło, ku uciesze sędziów i olbrzymiemu zaskoczeniu władz Turku. Mimo, że prawdopodobnie minęło trochę czasu, władze tego miasta są nadal tak samo ...
Turku
... for booking my passage. All that was left on the Helsinki boat where all the expensive cabins on the upper decks. So I switched cities to Turku and found a cabin under the car deck for 25 euros. I was sure I was going to be sharing at that price but when ...
Turku
... to do if we were only doing a bit. (Entry to this museum was also included in our Turku card.) This was probably an excellent museum, about Finland's maritime history. We read with interest the charts with English translations at the entrance to each ...
From Rauma to Naantali to Turku
... is one of the few hotels we've been where both the men's & women's saunas are currently working. And I wouldn't want to leave Finland without having a sauna, so I'd like to plan that for tomorrow night. There's a pool here too - and those would be a nice ...
This is supposed to be a couple of days of rest.
... to buy a sandwich or roll! And the prices, eeeek! The Big Mac index comes in at AUD10 - that's right, a Big Mac in Finland is 5.95 Euros which is just over TEN australian dollars. And everything else is priced in proportion. Our B&B in Turku is a ...
The End is the beginning is the end..
04042011-> Koti. Turku. Finland The Last ride. Junalla stadista kotikaupunkiin ja siitä sitten floskaa kyntämällä himaan. Jännitystä aiheutti loppumetreille asti oliko kotiavain mukana? No onneksi yksi kappale löytyi lopulta taskun ...
Turku can be sunny!
... along the island archipelago to Parainen (which is the Finnish word for the place, but as most people in that area of Finland actually speak Swedish, we could use the Swedish word Pargas. Many of the Swedish words for places are totally different to the ...

