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- Helsinki
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
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- 5,175,783
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Helsinki Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Helsinki, Finland
Lejana Helsinki
... su cordialidad de alojarme. Lo primero que hicimos fue ir hasta su casa, un complejo de edificios ubicado en las afueras de Helsinki y rodeado por un bosque, en donde dejé mi equipaje. Luego fuimos hacia un centro comercial, que según por lo que Jari ...
Helsinki
... 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 ...
Paluu arkeen
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 ...
Euroadtrip!
... to go the honest way. We had a few hours before the Viking ferry departure so we set a meeting point and I took a stroll. Helsinki seemed a nice city, perhaps a little too perfect and definitely too pricey. I kept an eye on the time as with our luggage ...
Girls Weekend in Helsinki!
... including, or course, Uppsala.The tour was very interesting. Apparently a majority of all cruise ships in the world are made in Helsinki. There was a fascinating old fortification out in the harbor that is not on my list to visit. Sweden built it when ...
The road to Tallinn
... 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 ...
Settled in (for now!)
... is around here (not to mention lakes!). The nickname here is ¨Lakeland¨. Right now we¨re situated about 300km north of Helsinki in central Finland. ¨We met our greeters at the bus station after we arrived an hour early (we got on the wrong bus!) ...
There and back again
... 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
... I came 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 ...
Finlandia
... body, occasionally waving my arms and yelling in English, "Go on, get! go on! Shoo!" Freak on a Leash Helsinki is a pretty interesting city of contrasts - on one hand, you have terribly accomplished young musicians who set up on Alexanderskatu ...
Strawberries, Crepes... and Peas!
... they are picked later here, or if the endless summer sun contributes to the high sugar content. Our stroll along the Helsinki waterfront garnered us another treat -- some fantastic crepes at a street café alongside the docks and tourist boats. ...
All the way to Helsinki (Espoo), a great one!
... 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 ...
Giant Seagulls
... our 2.30 euro in shrapel left from Germany which was just enough to buy a scratty sandwhich from a turkish guy at the market. Helsinki itself was interesting, there was a display of hundreds of bears in the main square called buddy bears they were giant ...
Preparing for the journey
Whatever makes you leave the comfort of your own home and head for other side of the globe I'll never know. A couple of years ago USA sounded like a good idea and off I went. A couple of years later Japan started sounding interesting and well, I guess ...
Almost there...
... emails - THANK YOU!! I love reading them and will reply to them all once I have free access in the coming weeks). We're in Helsinki now, after riding an overnight ferry for 16 hours... and no, we didn't sleep (well, maybe for a three hours) as the ...
Last few business visits, city markets, and fun!
We arrived early Thursday morning at the port of Helsinki, Finland in our cruise ship from Stockholm, Sweden and caught a tram to our hostel, which just happened to be part of the 1952 Olympic Stadium. We tossed out luggage in our rooms and ...
Oh my god, we're in Finland!
... ! Just a quickie tonight to say we're here! It's currently 1.33am and unsurprisingly we're both exhausted. We arrived in Helsinki at 1pm (Fin time) and stepped into our lovely little apartment at about 3.30pm. We've already found our local supermarket (K ...
Final Day in Helsinki
... to pick us up and we headed back to the apartment. Once we dropped Heta and the boys off, Martin and I headed back to Helsinki International Airport for some more plane spotting. This time we went to a different spot and had a great view not only of the ...
Pieces of Helsinki
... spend the afternoon in Porvoo, then return to Helsinki, spend the weekend with Tomi and Vera in a nearby town and back to Helsinki before leaving for Tallinn, so my Helsinki experience is all broken in small pieces. Hope they are enough... (No photos ...
Suomi-land!!!
... of the people speak english fluently and some speak sweedish as well. I am living in an apartment right outside of down town helsinki, with a girl named Shreya from India and a guy named Jani from Finland. The apartment is owned by AISEC so it is ...
Man-Hel
Travelled on the tinyest little plane to Helskini, lovely views of the wetlands and lakes surrounding Helsinki, first class got hot breakfast behind that grey curtain that separeates us and ...
Missä mun laukku on?
Kuten jo Münchenissä epäiltiin, laukut ei sit tulleet mukana. Käytiin kentällä tekemässä niiden katoamisilmotukset. Olis tietenkin ollut helpompaa jos ne meille annetut laukku tagit olis kertoneet jotain meidän laukkujen reitistä. Oltiin ite ...
Helsinki!
... into a rock. Found a few other random things that werent as good as the pictures indicated. BUT! we did come across the Helsinki Cathedral (or something similar) which was fairly impressive. Better yet, it was free. When we got back to the hostel, ...
Day 1 Manchester to Helsinki
Friday 2nd January Manchester to Moscow via Helsinki Got picked up by mum and dad at 7.30am and arrived at the airport about 8.15am as there was no traffic hardly. Phil was late as usual and got there about 8.45am. Started our Round the World ...
The land of a thousand lakes
... nbsp;secure seats on the flight to Helsinki too, so we were finally able to relax until our arrival. For a small airport, Helsinki's Vantaa Airport is total chaos! Once we landed, we went straight to the wrong baggage collection area (security had to ...
Still cold in Scandanavia
... to be the Royal Caribbean Excursion Manager. Today's excursion was to the Suomenlinna Sea Fortress off the coast of Helsinki. The fort was started in the 1700s when Finland was part of Sweden. Since then it has also been under Russia rule and then finally ...
Helsinki
... to an American student, Ian, at the university one day, and he told me about a cruise ship that traveled from St. Petersburg to Helsinki and back in only 2 days. As Helsinki was a city I did want to visit, I looked into it more. I researched ...
Finland: The Bill Gates of Northern Europe
... service there on Sunday afternoon with a contregation from all over the world. We managed to post a lot of our Helsinki photos on our Finland photo page Click Here to see all our photos, plus extensive captions describing the sites we saw and things ...
The Trip Begins
Anxiously done with school and ready for new adventures! Stockholm was only a stop for the night....then the real adventure ...