Kemi

After leaving Spain, I spent one week in Finland where Connie flew to meet me, then we flew together to Barcelona which is where we began Eurrailing. We spent two weeks going from there back to Finland, visiting these places along the way: Pisa, Milan, ...

GALWAY TO SYDNEY BY BOAT, TRAIN AND AUTOMOBILE

... how much they appreciated that support from the United Kingdom. On Wednesday morning our fast train for Helsinki leaves at 8:51 from Kemi. This is Bruce's last leg. He flies back to the United States on Thursday morning. I take the ferry from Helsinki ...

... Kemi took a little over an hour. Outside it's dark from 3 pm on in Helsinki and it was dark throughout my entire stay in Kemi. It is such a great contrast from this summer when there was no darkness. As I landed I noticed that they have quite a bit more ...

... is beginning to set at 12:50 pm. It's weird. Ultra short day. An eerie twilight lingers. The Finnish bus driver from the Kemi station is very chatty with us. He tells us about all the Russsians who are coming to visit Finland to go skiing and to ...

Kemi was REALLY EXPENSIVE. REALLY REALLY EXPENSIVE. ALMOST REDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE. It was rather smelly here because of the massive pulp factories and it was also raining the second day I was there so everything started to melt and it was just slush ...