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Europe » Finland » Kymenlaakso » Hamina July 1st 2015

On the first of July I went on a guided bus tour with Konstanta Tour Company to two Finnish cities not far from the Russian border, namely Hamina and Kotka. I have a Schengen multivisa valid until 16 December 2015 and I hope to visit five or six interesting cities in Finland, and of course I’ll try to arrange trips to other nearby countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and probably some others. The said tour company has lots of day (1.5 day) trips to many Finnish cities for very low prices. The first thing we saw upon arriving to Hamina was an old military tank with a Nazi emblem. We had about an hour or two at our disposal, we could devote it either to sightseeing or to shopping (as Russian tourists like to do ... read more
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Monument to Varvara Schantin
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