The land of Lordi and of course the 8 euro pint.
Helsinki smacked our budget massively. The hostel was 20 a night, the ferries 25. To even mate sandwiches for two you are looking at 10 quid. It isn't really a traveler friendly place.
However what it is is extremely pretty.
We stayed on an island just in Helsinki Harbour, the entire south coast of Finland is islands and ours used to be a fortress. It's name is spelt something like Soumellinna and it is now a Unesco World Herritage site. The small ferry ride to and from it was calm and picturesque. It took us passed lots of little islands, some with only a hut or two on them.
Helsinki itself is a mixture of pretty, old architecture and new, Battersea Power Station style, buildings. The hole place has a bizzare air of efficiancy and control about it which kind of helps to put you at ease.
In terms of what we did there. Well we basically indulged in everything that was free that we could possibly find. This involved a lot of churches, a sports bar where he gave us free coke due to our non-Finnish currency povity and a lot of window shopping.
We managed to see a lot of Moose on our travels, this pleased Helen greatly. Ask her why in person.
Also I watched Hull City in the sprots bar, something I have done also in Riga. Somewhere Doof and Steve Selby are pleased with my efforts.
The flight was painless and London would be weird.
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