Tag: Finland
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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,…
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Sunday 05 May 2024Highlights: The Jewel Water Show One 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…
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Saturday 04 May 2024Highlights: Finnair Non-Schengen Business Class Lounge Today 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…
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Sunday 07 April 2024Highlights: Getting lost trying to get to our hotel, meeting our tour group Today we ended our short pause in Helsinki to get to the start of our G Adventures Eastern Europe, Croatia and the Balkans tour starting in Berlin.
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Saturday 06 April 2024Highlights: Landing in a snow-capped Helsinki, exploring the Senaatintori (Senate Square), climbing the steps to the magnificent Helsinki Cathedral, visiting the Kauppatori (Market Square) on the edge of the Baltic Sea, exploring the Temppeliaukio Rock Church. Our trip exploring Europe began today after a 13.5 hour overnight flight from Singapore to Helsinki…
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Monday 24 July 2006 Highlights: British Airways First Lounge – The amazing shower The very long day beginning at 5.20 am in the morning. I walked to the Finnair airport bus which got me to the airport at around 6.30 am. Using the Finnair lounge I had my first shower of the day (not…
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Sunday 23 July 2006 Highlights: Suomenlinna Island, Lutheran Cathedral My last full day in Europe but an early night is necessary due to my morning plane tomorrow and the need for some sleep due to something like a 30 hour day. I decide very early on to visit the Suomenlinna Island which is a former…
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Saturday 22 July 2006 Highlights: Finland Parliament building This was the last day the Trafalgar tour so I really took advance of the ‘free included breakfast’ helping myself to a large hot breakfast. I even liberated some oranges against the rules; well this place seems to be making a mint 🙂 I checked out as…
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Friday 21 July 2006 Highlights: Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral, Temppeliaukio Church (built into bedrock) The last full day of the tour started in Estonia with some free time before a ferry across to Helsinki. I actually like ferries a lot and it reminded me of the 3 day trip I have in China next month.…
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Friday 7 July 2006 and Saturday 8 July 2006 Highlights: Sacre Coeur Monument (Paris), the sun still shining at 1 am (Helsinki) Friday Friday started with a very long travel day of over 13 hours, while the bus stopped in Bordeaux to pick up and drop people off. I stayed on or near the bus…
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