Park Hotel Turku

... gave us both a big hug and thanked us for our support - as ever we thanked her for looking after us so well during and after the games. Pav wasn't at all happy that we were leaving, telling us that the 'number 9s' are supposed to be there all the time. She gave us a big hug as well, telling us that next time she saw us she wanted us to not be smoking - hopefully that'll be a week on Thursday for the final, so won't be likely!
The coach ride back was a ...

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.

... Many are getting cases of beer, many bottles of alcohol, lots of chocolate … Apparently taxes are very high in Scandinavia. I get a bottle of scotch and a Toblerone (chocolate). I go back to the top deck with my plastic cup full of Scotch and chocolate by my side. With the sun setting very slowly, the sunset is a prolonged pageant of colors backing the changing landscape. Wind picks up and it gets cold as the sun goes down. I crash at around 12.

... we wanted for dinner in there. In the end someone said that there was a food hall under the ubiquitous Stockman department store. We bought bread & salad ingredients & ham & cheese, as well as a half bottle of wine. I still haven't had a sauna in this land that invented it, and our hotel has both a sauna for each of men & women, as well as a swimming pool. So it is our intention to use those tonight. They're open 5 - 11 pm. Tomorrow we need to make an early start ...

... was to knock the lot down, but the town decided to preserve them as a historical museum. These cottages haven't been moved here from anywhere, and they genuinely were the homes of wool carders, the violin maker, shoe maker, glove maker, cigar maker, printer, etc. In some of the houses women dressed in period costumes either continued the craft or else answered the questions of tourists. Very interesting. We hadn't gone far though when we realised quite how ...

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!

... 1073;ом))Здесь нас ждал паром до Стокг 86;льма)

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We arrived in Turku on the bus. The beautiful port city with a central street, the castle and the quay, which is more like a museum ship in the open air))
Here is the ferry to Stockholm was waiting for us)