Day 188
Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
We caught the train to Rovaniemi from Helsinki yesterday!
Took us 10 hours to get here!!! 1000km north of Helsinki...where it is COLD! We have our polar scarves and beanies on!
We passed so many lakes, trees, A frames homes to get here.....
But it was so beautiful...
I dont have time to write anything much now because we´re in the local library and we´re about to go on a reideer tour....so i´ll tell you more about that later!!
It will be cool to be crossing the Arctic Circle today!!!
Till later..xo
PS WE´re seeing Santa tomorrow!!..Any requests???????
Thursday, 6 September 2007
LAST DAY IN HELSINKI
Day 186 - 187
Helsinki, Finland
Our last day in Helsinki was spent going to the markets where we were almost tempted to buy a home spun shawl for mum..only all of the scarves and shalls had fur, real fur, for the trim..and i wasn´t sure how that would go down wearing it in Perth!! They were so beautiful though!
We also went on a Sightseeing Tour which was great because we learned so much (these are such great tours!) and it´s amazing what affiliation with the place you get once you know more about it.
Finnish people it seems to me..love their saunas, their sausage, their beer and their furs! I guess they have to keep warm somehow.....
We aso went to the Suomenlinna Fortress which was fascinating..so much history there and so many cannons on the island (takes 25 minutes from Helsinki to get there!) We went to the brewery there so we ended up trying the finnish beer afterall.
Shame it took the last day to learn all about the place..but we did a lot of reading about it..so that compensated a bit!
Off to the north of Finland now! Lapland, home of Santa!
Helsinki, Finland
Our last day in Helsinki was spent going to the markets where we were almost tempted to buy a home spun shawl for mum..only all of the scarves and shalls had fur, real fur, for the trim..and i wasn´t sure how that would go down wearing it in Perth!! They were so beautiful though!
We also went on a Sightseeing Tour which was great because we learned so much (these are such great tours!) and it´s amazing what affiliation with the place you get once you know more about it.
Finnish people it seems to me..love their saunas, their sausage, their beer and their furs! I guess they have to keep warm somehow.....
We aso went to the Suomenlinna Fortress which was fascinating..so much history there and so many cannons on the island (takes 25 minutes from Helsinki to get there!) We went to the brewery there so we ended up trying the finnish beer afterall.
Shame it took the last day to learn all about the place..but we did a lot of reading about it..so that compensated a bit!
Off to the north of Finland now! Lapland, home of Santa!
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