Well that´s it for our Asian section of the trip. After a quick one night stop over in Beijing we jumped straight to the gateway to Europe, Helsinki Finland. Helsinki was supposed to be our place for a bit of deserved R&R from our whirlwind asia trip. However we found out it's probably not the best place for this. See it's midsummer and yeah, the sun doesn't really set. Even at 11pm at night there is still adequate light to walk around, like pre-dusk. We set the alarm for 1:30am and there were still no stars! Helsinki is a pretty little city. The city architecture is quite amazing, with so many buildings interesting enough to stop and admire. We spent the first day doing some light sight-seeing and saw most of the main sights in Helsinki,
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