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- Helsinki
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- 5,175,783
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- FI
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Travel Blogs from Finland
Saunas & nude swimming
... Museum, which has a fantastic exhibition of musical instruments (over 1500 items), and a large collection of material relating to Sibelius, Finland's most famous composer. My last day I go to the Ateljee Bar on the top floor of a hotel - you catch the ...
GOODBYE ( nakemiin) FINLAND
SUNDAY and MONDAY: sunnuntai & maanantai It is monday morning and we are at the airport ready to fly to Copenhagen. Helsinki has been a wonderful experience for both of us. The city, its people, its sights and the experiences have all been great. ...
European Cpital of Culture
... is Wikipedia’s URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland Most of Turku burned down in 1827 but it was redesigned by Finland’s favourite architect, one Carl Ludwig Engel. It boasts two universities and is a lively town, particularly as this year ...
City Tour in Helsinki
I got up at 9:00am and its time is the latest time during my tour. I think I was too tired and not feel well. Yesterday I went to bed witthout edit my blog, then I bought and resisterd for user ID at the reetion. I tried to access the internet through ...
Just Arrived at Helsinki
I have been a badly cold after I caught a strong wind while fjord giuding tour in Geiranger. I just flew from Oslo to Helsinki today. I made a reservation of hotel room with capable of internet access for 2 nights. I want to enjoy traveling here but ...
kohta koneessa Bangkokiin..
Jep. Vuorokauden päästä ollaan jo Pariisin koneessa.Toivotaan ettei tarvi sekoilla vaihtojenkanssa,et löytää oikeelle portille ajoissa. Tänään kävin ottamassa kolmannen hepapiikin,taas kustansi reilu 50e.No neonnyt sit hommattu. Puutelista ...
The last day
It was a lovely morning, this the last morning that we would have company. The 'company' needed to be sure that there were no difficulties with acquiring a ferry ticket, the Tallin ferry aptly named Tallink that would take them in two hours, back to ...
Early start to southward migration
... readied the boat, filling the water tank and so on. We were ready by 10:45 and set off, a bit sad as we were enjoying Finland and we liked Turku but hey ho, that's the way things go at times. The wind was favourable for sailing direction-wise and we were ...
Helsinkeeek!
... that seemed to be exciting to the Finnish, and a nice church on a hill. After cold rainy Estonia I got quite sick in Finland and Shane had to hear my bleats and lamenting for hours as we wandered the streets looking at cold sights. (sorry Shane) ...
Day 2
A grey, wet day. Not a bad day for spending time in a museum and what a museum – the Hermitage. We'd all wanted to go there for most of our lives so it would be a culmination of a joint dream. Still, the first challenge was to get there. In order ...
"Shut up and drive"
... money. Especially the cunts with cards- most of them are from organised gangs anyway. Nobody made them come to fucking Finland did they? (of course they may have been traffiked but I don't think so- you wouldn't transport someone across the ...
and on to St Petersburg
... eaten mine on the ferry! The island constitutes one large fortress, construction of which commenced in the early 1700’s when Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden. On the substantial ramparts are large guns, dating back to the time when Finland ...
Into the archipelago
One of the dangers of updating a blog in advance of oneself is that occasionally, things can happen post the last update and pre the next day and this was one of those occasions. Then one is faced with the dilemma – does one go back and add to the ...
Hello Finland
... ferry routes, thus allowing a more relaxed sail. The destination was the small harbour of Porkkala, situated amongst the rocky islands of Finland's challenging coastline and about 36 miles away. We had a F3 and later a bit stronger, wind from the NW and ...
Day 1
Our worst fears were realised. We'd none of us slept due to the heat, well that’s not quite true but the snorer will remain our secret! Breakfast was very good but we made the mistake of having it too early as there was quite a wait to get off the ...
So this is cruising...
... quietly, at 3 knots, northwards. Our destination was the island of Gullkrona, described as a 'quite delightful island' in the CA notes on Finland. The island was run by a family called the Ericsons and they had a cafe and so on but sadly, we were told by ...
And then there were Five!
Today was the day that Louise would be joining us. Sadly, it didn't look very promising as the weather was literally the worst that we had experienced since arriving on the continent at the end of April. It was pouring with rain and the sky was almost ...
When Helsinki Freezes Over
... pitiful but free wifi, had some coffee, and chatted to some folks. I bought a t-shirt with a moose on it and “Finland”—the moose is their largest animal and sometimes will wander in to town. So there’s a lot of tourist ...
Last Day in St Petersburg
It was a bright, sunny day – ideal for what we had in mind, a day walking in St Petersburg, taking in as much of the sights as we could before we got our taxi back to the ferry at 17:00. This time, we were successful in our bid for the shuttle and ...
An unexpectedly nice day
Despite our fears, arising from the fact that the whole quayside appears to be a collecting area for camper vans and vans in general, all inhabited by a variety of 'youff' who revel in playing VERY loud music and getting very drunk, we slept like logs, ...
Thunder & Sun
... sun again. With this, we upped anchor and set off, next stop Hanko, on the 'bottom left hand corner of the Finland mainland and a popular holiday destination as well as being an important harbour – the latter, as according to the pilot, because the ...
A treat for the Ladies
We had an extremely calm passage and after a leisurely breakfast on board, we got back to Helsinki station's left luggage office by 10:30. The plan for the day was for me to get back to the boat and do some chores, washing etc whilst the girls had a ...
Our northernmost point
... so we didn’t mind, as the rain conveniently stopped when we needed it to. A quick word on the laundry. Commonly in Finland, you pay a single charge for washing and drying – annoying as we like to dry washing on the line if possible so we are ...
tulin,näin,koin
Eli 7.4.2011 on tultu takas reissusta . Kolme lentoo Krabi-Bangkok-Amsterdam-Helsinki,tiukka setti mut jotenkisen hanuri kesti. Krabilta lähdin aamukoneella Bangkokiin ja sieltä ilta/yökoneella Damiin jataas aamupäivällä parintunnin ...
Hey Hey, Helsinki!
Slept in until 8:30 today - nice! That's the good thing about having a pitch-black cabin all to yourself! Grabbed a quick juice before disembarking and hopping onto a bus tour - normally I wouldn't bother with these, but time is limited ...
Sailing again
... options on our way eastwards. As we approached Porkkala, I decided that we ought to bite the bullet and have ago at anchoring in Finland. I have read countless articles on how to, what anchor, best way of tying up etc etc but I opted for the tried and ...