30th August 2010 Boat arrives in Helsinki, Finland The boat docked at 8.30am but we didn’t have to disembark till 10am, so at 9.30 we jumped on a tram and 5 minutes later we were in the tourist info. centre in the train station. We bought a 72 hour bus / tram / subway ticket for 24 euros each, but Sid was free. All the hostels in Helsinki were booked out for the next few months, so the only place I could get was an old lodge. We got the bus out to ‘the lodge’ which was 30 mins outside the city, but absolutely fabulous with gardens full of giant oak trees and lots of games dotted around like darts, croquet, boules and an indoor swimming pool and sauna. Our room had a balcony onto a
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