Helsinki

Best Things to See in Helsinki (Or, What We Did with Visiting Guests Over a Long Weekend)

This will be my final post about Helsinki!

It feels like a fitting way to wrap things up because I’m going to give you a photo-heavy (hopefully text-light?) rundown of what we did when my…

Helsinki Catchall 2.0

I’m almost done with recapping our time in Helsinki. One more post—which I’ve yet to write—about the long weekend when my brother and sister-in-law came to visit.

Until I get around to that… here’s…

Visiting Helsinki’s Island Fortress of Suomenlinna

How about some geographic whiplash on this Saturday morning? I’ve been referencing Denmark and the UK a lot lately, but still have plenty to share with regard to our time in Finland.

At the…

A Day Trip from Helsinki: Visiting Tallinn, Estonia

No matter how many times I write out the word Tallinn—which has been happening with surprising frequency lately—I always start by spelling it with a single ‘n’. That is neither here nor there, just…

Visiting Löyly: An Iconic Helsinki Sauna

Sauna culture is a big deal in Finland. Almost everyone has a sauna in their home (John went to a work off-site last week and had a sauna in his hotel room). There are…