Airport Hotel Bonus Inn Helsinki

It's our last night in Helsinki. The bags are more or less packed and we're just about ready for the journey back home tomorrow.
Today we've spent the day relaxing and mooching around the city centre doing a bit of shopping and looking a lot like tourists.
This evening we got a call from Mick and Marie telling us they were in the pub and ...

Soumenlinna fortress was our destination today. It is located on a few islands in the bay and was build to defend the western border of Sweden when Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. It has also played a part for both Germany and Russia, as well as Finland as a sovereign state. Today it is a tourist attraction with a ferry every 20 min...

The ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki was interesting. It was absolutely full of Finnish people, who I found out love Karaoke and are in no way embarrassed to sing Finnish songs in front of crowds of people. I didn't have my own room on the ship so I spent most of my time on the deck drinking duty free beer. That was until some bad tempered ...

It is now the sixth day of our Baltic Adventure, and we woke up just a few miles off the Finnish coast. We are now farther north than either of us has ever been. Helsinki is at 60 degrees north latitude, about 350 miles south of the Arctic Circle and almost as far north as Anchorage, Alaska. It rained this morning, so our sail into port was not...

Into the airport in Helsinki and it looked very grey and cold flying in and with the temperature hoovering on zero degrees, myself and karl took the airport bus into the city and a short walk down to the Olympic stadium where the hostel was... Once we checked in it was into the city for a look about and pick up a one way train ticket for the fol...

We arrived in Helsinki after a three hour Ferry trip from Tallinn. The ferries are a great way to get about in the northern part of Europe, and for most of the time the only option due to the Baltic sea being smack bang in the middle. Tallinn is a very cheap place to buy grog in comparison to the Scandinavian countries, and the Finnish people ma...

As the world's longest day one of any holiday ever drags on, with a further 8 hour flight and then a whole afternoon in Osaka still to come, we find ourselves in Helsinki where, for the past six hours, it's felt like a marginally slow six episodes of Keifer Sutherland comedy 24. Traipsing from town hall, to docks, to cathedral, to American theme...

Our good luck appears to have run out and we have a cool, windy, drizzly day. We departed the ship and from the looks of things - we were not sure what the day would hold for us. We have been in a different port each day and have three more days to go with two extensive days in St. Petersberg, Russia - Jim was reminiscing about cold Michigan wea...

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