Sunday 20 September 2009

Helsinki

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Food Pic # 2. Meaty donuts and cinnamon buns.

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We cycled around Helsinki using it’s rather Helsinki 041excellent cycle paths, complete with their own bike traffic lights. Sarah struggled a bit with Phil’s one-gear-no-brakes, ‘easy rider’, but Iain was right at home.

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The Helsinki food and drink report is: good but expensive. Sarah was keener than Iain was on the Finnish salty liquorice vodka.

Helsinki 064Phil and Aino were brilliant hosts and we’ve had a very easy introduction to our travels. They had their work cut out as we weren’t the only visitors with some other friends, Steve, Sarah and baby Stuart joining us on Saturday.

In gratitude for their hospitality, Iain beat Phil in the table tennis tournament.

Helsinki 108We took a boat trip to a sea fortress island to play with some cannons but we’ll have to come back and visit again to explore more – hopefully in winter to have a dip with the locals in the frozen sea.

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Sarah looking for Finnish U Boats.

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Here’s one.

2 comments:

  1. Great pics.Glad to see Sarah's got the hang of sightseeing! The holiday is going great guns so far then!
    Enjoy!

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  2. Finland looks like great fun. Love the bike pose. The weather looks better than here. Look forward to some Russian food pics. Keep safe xx

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