Official Name: Republic of Finland
Established: 6 December 1917 (Independence from Russia)
Population: 5,528,737 (2020 estimate)
Religion: 68.7% Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, 26.3% no religion
Language(s): Finnish, Swedish
Capital: Helsinki
Order of Visit: Twenty-First
First Visit: 08 July 2006
Last Visit: 7 April 2024
Duration: 5 Days
Visit Highlights: Parliament Building, ice breakers ships, Suomenlinna Island, Lutheran Cathedral, the sun high in the sky at 1 am in the morning!
Places Visited: Helsinki
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Tuesday 07 May 2024
Highlights: Reunion’s – Darby with Lana, me with Boots and JunoThe journey home can be a long one, especially from Europe and today was the end of that journey that start on Saturday 4 May back in Split. Today started with an overnight flight from Singapore (review here).
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Jetstar AU
Date: 06 May 2024
Flight Number: JQ8
Gate: 20
Seat: 31F & 32F (Economy Class Seat)
Plane: Boeing 787-8
Boarded: 20:10
Pushback: 21:04 (Scheduled 21:00)
Arrived: 05:50 (Scheduled 06:15)
Duration: 6 hour 46 minutes
Distance: 6,025 kmsThis flight was from Changi (Singapore) International Airport to Tullamarine (Melbourne, Australia) International Airport.
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Monday 06 May 2024
Highlights: Universal Studios SingaporeThe last day of this trip with a fun activity had suddenly arrived. After a comfortable sleep in Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Hotel we took our main bags to be checked in to the Jewel Early Bag Check in facility. For Jetstar this allows you to drop your bags 12 hours before the flight.
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Sunday 05 May 2024
Highlights: The Jewel Water ShowOne of the major downsides of living in Australia is how far away for the majority of the world we are. Returning back takes a long time. The first leg getting back was Split to Helsinki (3 hours), than a major transit (8 hours) followed by Helsinki to Singapore (13 hours).
Today was the Helsinki to Singapore flight (review here). The positives were having an empty seat next to me (which Darby had as well) and the flight was faster than scheduled by one hour (‘only’ 12 hours 20 minutes).
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Finnair
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Date: 5 May 2024
Gate: 42
Seat: 34D & 34H (Economy Class Seats)
Plane: Airbus 350-900
Boarded: 23:52
Pushback: 00:23 (Scheduled 00:25)
Arrived: 17:43 (Scheduled 18:35)
Duration: 12 hour 20 minutes
Distance: 9,271 kms -
Tour Title: Croatia and the Balkans
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Tour Company: G Adventures
Tour Leader: Nadya Ginzburg
Cities Visited: Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Mostar, Kotor, Dubrovnik, Hvar, Split
Countries Visited: Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Croatia.
Dates: Saturday 20 April 2024 to Saturday 04 May 2024
Duration: 15 days
Tour Type: Classic
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Saturday 04 May 2024
Highlights: Finnair Non-Schengen Business Class LoungeToday is the start of the long journey home. Six of us had organised to go to the airport together – Theresa, Ivan, Megan, Alexa, Darby and myself. We had breakfast together and order an Uber van. T
he vehicle that showed up however was not a van, if we had somehow gotten in it would have been a clown car! Our second Uber however could handle 6 passengers, a nice way to keep costs low, especially if the airport a little bit away.
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When visited: Saturday 04 May 2024
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Time of day: Late Afternoon to Late Evening
Operator: Finnair (Linked to the Oneworld Alliance)
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Finnair
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Date: 04 May 2024
Gate: 4
Seat: 15A & 16A (Economy Class Seats)
Plane: Airbus 320
Boarded: 11:20 (tarmac boarding)
Pushback: 12:08 (Scheduled 11:50)
Arrived: 16:14 (Scheduled 15:40)
Duration: 3 hours 06 minutes
Distance: 1,956 kms
