Sokos Hotel Torni

Yrjonkatu 26, Helsinki, Southern Finland, 00100, Finland | 4 star hotel

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Walking the Streets with Steed & Mrs Peel

A travel blog entry by jackdrury

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Helsinki isn't pretty and she never really smiles. She's nice enough though, and so are her people. She's also efficient, and clean; the kind of city that you could wrap your arms around and hold tight. But not for long. Soon, you'd find yourself wanting to leave her. I'm not sure that a real urban boy could ever truly love Helsinki. I can't …

Food in Finland?

A travel blog entry by waynedale

As soon as I boarded the train from St Petersburg to Helsinki I thought to myself, "ah - this must be a Finnish train". So sleek and quiet and punctual. Not that I'd had any particularly bad experiences with Russian trains but as I was on my way to Scandinavia, all those images of an orderly country were coming to mind. I'd been to Helsinki Airport …

Miniature Madness!!!

A travel blog entry by mrgill1979

... gone Santa arrives (in person) to deliver
presents.

In Sweden IKEA is a cheap store, not a trendy store. (And they are only
open until 8pm on special days.)

Recycling is taken so seriously that one company (FTI) is trying to put
up video cameras to make sure people sort their recyclables correctly.

Learning to speak Swedish is frustrating becaues everyone in Sweden
already speaks better English ...

Couchsurfing in Helsinki

A travel blog entry by katevoss

... woke up at 12.30! This wasn't good as it would take at least 30mins to get to the ferry terminal and I was supposed to get there between 1 hour to 20mins before hand. So I rushed out of bed and out of the apartment, down to the tram station, waited a painful 8mins for the tram, walked the 10mins to the ferry terminal... and it was 1.25. Fail. But it was still ok because they had a 4.30 ferry, or so I thought, but when I asked when ...

On board the ferry

A travel blog entry by carpefeline

... the rest small bit and I didn't like it either.

Walked up the hill and saw some thistles and we spent some time trying to photo them. I think I got two or three good ones out of a dozen. Wind kept blowing them. Then walked around the corner and found the King's gate. Is a big gate coming from the sea. Duh. We walked through and there were a lot of people sitting around and relaxing. Nice place. ...