Short Visit to Helsinki

We departed Kemi on the overnight train to Helsinki and arrived in the morning a half mile from our hotel on the harbor. We re-grouped and wandered Finland's Capital, the largest we had seen since Stockholm almost six weeks earlier.

It was cold but not snowing as we walked the city's windswept streets and immense, rapidly growing harbor. Along there way we found some interesting ships in the harbor and some eye-opening artwork.

We wouldn't be in the city long. Our goal was to catch the ferry into Estonia and the Balkan countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania before moving farther south, skirting Russia into Poland and Slovenia.

We enjoyed excellent Indian food at the RESTORAN CHAKRAN after finding the location for the ferry, soon crashed.