Stockholm: Tuesday 17th March 2009
We headed off to check out the Vasa Museum. The Vasa was a ship that sank in 1685, on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour. It lay on the bottom…
Tallinn to Stockholm: Monday 16th March 2009
After a quiet night ( it was certainly no Cook Strait trip, there was no roll) we woke to find ourselves in the Stockholm archipelagos. There was a surprising amount…
Helsinki to Tallinn: Sunday 15th March 2009
We took the ferry across the Baltic to Tallinn , Estonia, today. The journey was 2 hours and we arrived at 12:30. The average age of people on the ferry…
Helsinki: Saturday 14th March 2009
This morning was sunny and bright. We headed down to the market square and caught the ferry to Suomenlinna Island. It is about 12 minutes away from Helsinki. Looking back…
St Petersburg to Helsinki: Friday 13th March 2009
We had a 6:00am taxi set-up by Maria, our apartment contact, in order to get to Finlandsky station for our 7:17am train. Maria said there would be traffic congestion as…