Scandic Simonkentta

... New Year's Eve, Finnish style. The bus to central Helsinki was painless and cheap. Even better was the location of our hotel, the Simonkentta Scandic. It took only a couple of minutes to find our place of stay. The next morning, New Year's Eve, we got ...

Jeg og min sønn hadde lenge pratet om at vi måtte ta en av de store båtene over Østersjøen fra Stockholm, hvor vi bor, til Helsingfors. Da endelig en helg bøy seg, booket jeg turen på Silja Line sine nettsider. Det var mye dyrere enn jeg hadde ...

We woke up early in the morning and wandered down to the buffet. We ate quickly and went up to the deck to watch out boat pull into Helsinki. After crowding off the boat, Sofie and I went to our hotel. It was a very close walk away from the terminal, ...

13:52@Cafe Karl Fazen ...

 8:05@Linda Line   ...

 8:00@成田空港 ...

This was our original quick stopover on the trip home but is now transit for Russia. For a city resting on granite the Finns have a lot of underground shopping, railways and even churches. Wandering the city in bright sunshine finally reaching the ...

Last minute independent touring of St Petersburg. A quick trip on the Green Line for two stops, then a longer trip on the Red Line for more stops before catching the trains back to Go. Great underground stations, lost without a Metro Map, all for just 2 ...