Helsinki
May 3rd 2009 Day 1 - May 3
Early morning taxi to Finland Station. The taxi was an ordinary new car (no taxi markings) but the driver was friendly and had some English, we even managed a joke over the exchange of fare and receipt.
The train journey was 6 hours, including the hour for the Russian and Finland immigration checks (the Finnish officials wanted to know why I was travelling alone, a ra
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