Minotel Centro Turku

... in either us finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th in our group).
We reached the Olympic tower to discover that it was closed for the day thanks to the match that afternoon (Russia v Italy), so instead we paid our 5euros each and went to the sport museum next door. The museum is small and full of Olympic memorabilia, including a fine selection of javelins, ice skates and skis used in various Olympic competitions over the years. The highlight was the women's ...

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 x Huppari
1 x Puolen metrin rauta kettinki

Eiköhän näillä pärjätä...

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~Lao Tzu

Caught the train from Helsinki to Turku which only took about two hours. They have very nice trains. Easy city to navigate. I'm going to check out the harbour and book a spot on one of the ferries heading for ALands. Unfortunately I can't go today because the ferries only depart at 0815 and 2015. So I'm staying in Turku today which is fine because I forgot that I wanted to see the castle. Now I'm just waiting for the hostel to open so I can drop my bag off. It's getting lighter every day.

... I enjoy the turn of the century town. Pretty place.

Back in Turku for the afternoon, I hit some interesting "museums". First was the Luoinstarmaki Handicrafts Museum which gets the international award for worst name. It is actually an excellent collection of buildings starting several hundred years ago, decorated in their respective timeframes and with a few people dressed in period costumes providing explanations.

Second, Alboa ...

... his sauna alone, but when he was joined by other men, they had added water to the rocks so his sauna was very steamy & he was very sweaty. When he joined me at the pool, both of us went hip deep in the pool & then chickened out. We sat outside and relaxed & cooled off but didn't manage the cold dunking afterwards. We dressed & came upstairs & will have our supermarket dinner shortly. As I say, I feel delightfully clean and, at the moment, nothing hurts. From Kerry & David

... 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 (nearly) end to our time in Finland. On Sunday we return to Helsinki & then take the ferry across to Tallinn, in Estonia. Just when we've mastered a few words of Finnish too! I doubt I'll ever forget that an "elevator" in ...

I found Travel Pod after my trip to Northern Europe, but I thought I would just write here so that people know they can ask me if they have any questions about Finland. I studied in Turku Finland for a semester at Abo Akademi University. I lived 4km from the school and town, and the public transportation is what I used, it was not bad at all. I also had a few travels from Finland, that I will post in other blogs. Have fun on your travels and be sure to check in!

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... was pleasantly surprised to find I had the whole cabin to my self. It was a nice Cabin with en-suite toilet and shower. It was an all day cruise across the Baltic from Stockholm to Turku. I didn't get off the ferry until after 8:00 in the evening. A few of the finish passengers had obviously got stuck into their Duty free allowance on the ferry as a couple of them had to be carried off the boat ...

... 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 managed to find our room. The rest of the day was spent trying out Finish customs of extremely hot saunas.