Greetings!
After breakfast this morning, we loaded up our luggage on our tour bus, and drove to the ferry to Helsinki, Finland. A ten-story passage, with restaurants, shops, gardens, and lounges, it took a couple of hours to take us to the Finnish capital port (and included a lunch).
Pat and I had been to Helsinki in 2007 on one of our first multi-country travels in search of my heritage. The trip included Norway, but began in Helsinki. Pat remembers most of the sights we are seeing now, and some of them are coming back to me as she triggers my memory. One of them is a huge church carved into solid rock. Only this time, a charge is asked to see it. We passed, but others took in the full scle of it.
The harbor market was more upscale food vendors than before, and featured far more reindeer offerings. Nevertheless, we made note of the possibility if we decided to come back to the area in the next two days we're here.
Paulius then took us on an orientation tour of the are on the was to our hotel. We're staying in a converted prison on a peninsula on the perimeter of the City, and we were able to use our three-day transit card to ride the trolley directly to it.
Unpacked and rested, we met Paulius in the hotel lobby at 6pm to walk to an excellent Finnish restaurant for dinner. Meatballs, potatoes, and beets with beer and a great cake and ice cream desert were served in a warm, crowded venue. We spent the evening comparing notess on the many places we all have in common travels.
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