Farewell Finland – we’re off to Sweden! Our week in Finland is up already and tonight we’re sleeping aboard the Tallink Silja ship “Serenade”. The Serenade is one of a fleet of ferries that go between Stockholm and Helsinki, across the Northern Baltic Sea. It’s a huge ship […]
10°C + 30km/hr wind + rain? No Finland – no! Today was not the summer’s day we expected. It has been cold, wet, windy and most un-summerish, at least by Australian standards. Guess one of the consequences of being past the 60th parallel (Savonlinna is 62° North of the equator) […]
Cloudy, windy and cold…what happened to Savonlinna blue? We woke this morning to a cloudy and windy day, with an outside temperature of barely 13°C. What happened to our Savonlinna blue? I guess we can’t have perfect weather every day… Despite the chill we still wanted to explore […]
Finland’s spectacular Lakes Region. Evening blog fans! We caught the train to Savonlinna today, a small town 340km North-East of Helsinki in the Lakes Region of Finland. It took us 4 hours to get here from Helsinki, with a train change at Parikkala (see map below), and lots […]
Porvoo may just be a contender for “Cutest Village in Finland”! Evening blog fans! We thought today, being Sunday, would be a good day for an outing – a “Sunday drive”, Finland style. So we caught the bus to Porvoo (or Borga as its known in Swedish*). *Why […]
Wandering Soles 