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Published: April 15th 2015
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Tunnel
One of the many tunnels with wedged holes along the walls for shooting out of but not allowing to be shot in at! I'm falling behind, I'm sorry! I'll have a lot of travelling time to post today's blog tomorrow so I'll be back on top of things then, I promise!
But yesterday, oh yesterday!!! Man this was the coolest thing. So yesterday, I took a ferry to this island called Suomenlinna which I knew very little about... Something about a sea fortress, but that's all. However, it turns out that this island was absolutely 100% the coolest thing I've ever seen, I swear!
Comprised of 6 different islands, and built in the 17th century, hundreds of tunnels and 8km of fortress walls make up this incredible place. It was like walking through time and a seriously awesome history in real life experience. There were still cannons mounted in every direction outwards towards the sea, and some tunnels open to visitors (though I was pretty much the only one there!). Honestly the coolest thing, I highly highly recommend looking it up, or better yet, going there!!
I spent probably 3 hours with my jaw dropped walking slowly around, taking it all in, and then took the ferry back to the mainland. I went back to the hostel and made a late
lunch, and set off to meet Berto at the bouldering place where he was going to get me in for the afternoon.
This was also really really cool... Basically rock climbing but without ropes and much more challenging, this indoor place called the cave, was a really chill atmosphere where everyone of all walks gather to have fun and get a full body work out at the same time... My arms and wrists are still sore more than 24 hours later!
It was a blast and I'm definitely going to try and find a place back home to do it again.
Yesterday was very simple, but at the same time amazing... I only did a few things, but I did them in a country that felt like home, and I felt really for one of the first times on this trip that I was experiencing all I could to its full potential. I wasn't merely a tourist walking around following a map, rushing from place to place to get that perfect picture, but was rather fully immersed in the everyday life of a Finn, and I have Berto to thank for that as well.
I had
a simple salami and cheese sandwich, grilled up for dinner back at the hostel, and curled in to write the blog and catch up with some friends for the evening.
It's then when I am reminded again about how such a small world it is, when one of my friends comments on a picture of mine and says... "Hey Kelcey, aren't you living in Helsinki?!"
Long story short, with lots of "what the heck are you doing here" and super stunned feelings on both sides I'm sure, I agree to meet up with an old high school friends currently living and working about half an hour from my hostel.
What are the odds right?!
Good night all, we shall connect again tomorrow, enjoy the pictures!!
- NB
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