The trip to Suomenlinna sea fortress, just off Helsinki mainland, is only one in countless day trips you can take from the Finnish capital. Nevertheless, it’s one day trip you Continue Reading →
Part II of my walking tour around Helsinki. This one covers the waterfront from Hernesaari to Market Square, Esplanadi, and Kruununhaka. Let’s go! Okay, so the previous post ended Continue Reading →
Introduction Refreshing, energising, invigorating, chilly. These are the first adjectives that sprang to mind as I stepped off the train that took me from Vantaa airport to Helsinki Central Station Continue Reading →
The weekend I spent in Helsinki toward the end of March was my second time in Finland (the first being the long weekend I spent in Rovaniemi a few years Continue Reading →
Foreword If you’re visiting a city for the first time over the course of a weekend, you objectively do not have that much time to try out that many bars, Continue Reading →
Day 2 was ‘free day’, which, after 24 hours of obeying the ‘orders’ of the guides and marching from one place to the next to comply with their given schedule, Continue Reading →
When we returned to our hotel around 4.30 in the afternoon, I couldn’t help thinking that we weren’t done yet. We were mildly knackered from all the walking, freezing and Continue Reading →
Santa Claus 2.0 Too soon did our snowmobile drive come to an end, and I had to get off my own shiny black vehicle and be okay with that. It Continue Reading →
I will skip the part where, straight after landing in Rovaniemi, the bus that picked us up at the airport drove us (read: ‘escorted us’) to this remote building somewhere Continue Reading →
‘I’m not too keen on Santa Claus’, I thought to myself as I skimmed and scanned the Rovaniemi brochure from the travel agency. I have lukewarm feelings about everything Christmassy Continue Reading →