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You can run…
Last year, I went to Finland to escape having to hear all about the Queen’s Jubile. This year, I went to Finland to avoid having to hear all about the royal baby. But as I took a stroll down Helsinki...
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Ravintola Sipuli
Given Elina’s hate of onions, I’ve occasionally joked I wanted to go to an onion restaurant that has a giant onion for a logo. Turns out there is one in Helsinki.
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Helsinki
Cathedral in Helsinki harbour. Helsinki Cathedral. View of the harbour as we took the boat to the zoo. The Elina shop, were I took Elina for her check-up. They don’t seem to have KFC in Finland, but...
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Ice cream
Finland do many awesome ice cream flavours. They do some interesting ones too. Here is Elina eating a Salmiakki ice cream, and in Laitila we found a tar flavoured one.
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Finnish Museum of Natural History
A dolphin skeleton. They don’t feel much likes the clowns of the sea when you see how many teeth they have. Every single diorama in this museum depicted one animal eating another. The history of life...
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Helsinki Sea Life Centre
I wasn’t particularly impressed by the Helsinki Sea Life Centre. It had some cool animals in it, and you did get to walk through a tunnel with sharks swimming over your head, but it was fairly small...
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Helsinki Zoo
Owls are such posers. This photo was really dark, but trusting my histogram, when I brought it into Photoshop the detail came out far better than I was expecting. An otter staring at his own...
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Hotel Haven review
While in Helsinki we stayed at Hotel Haven. I was expecting the rooms to be really small, as they are shown so on the virtual tours. However, it seems that is only for sea room views; our room was...
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