Helsinki Travel Guide

Suomenlinna church tower silhouetted against a warm golden hour sky

Helsinki travel guides shows you granite churches, golden hour ferries, and light that lasts past midnight. Ten days door to door, JFK to Helsinki to Stockholm, with eight nights actually based in FInland’s capital formed the basis of this Helsinki travel guide. That’s enough time to fall into a rhythm. Mornings happen at a market…

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Tallinn Day Trip from Helsinki

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral tallinn estonia

Tallinn day trip from Helsinki includes Medieval spires, a Soviet-era prison, and a duty-free booze run Some day trips give you a change of scenery. This Tallinn day trip from Helsinki gives you a change of country. Tallinn sits just across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki, close enough that you can leave after breakfast…

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Helsinki City Center Walking Guide

Helsinki skyline from the water with the Cathedral in the background.

Helsinki City Center Walking Guide includes Cathedrals, Poets, and a Church Carved Into Bedrock After visiting Norway the year before and discovering how painless it was to get from Oslo’s airport into the city center by train, I suspected Helsinki would offer the same kind of ease. I was right. The moment you land at…

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Stockholm Vasa Museum on Djurgården

Bow of the 17th century Vasa warship towering inside the Stockholm Vasa Museum

A ferry ride past Gröna Lund, a stop at ABBA The Museum, an aquavit tasting, and an afternoon inside the Stockholm Vasa Museum The ferry docked, close up on the hull and bow. The journey to the Stockholm Vasa Museum started with a walk through Gamla Stan’s narrow streets down to Slussen. Ferry Line 82…

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Eating in Helsinki

Helsinki food stall

We’re not foodies. So here’s the honest, unglamorous rundown of eating in Helsinki Some travelers build entire trips around restaurant reservations. We didn’t. Food took a back seat to the sights on this trip, which honestly makes this the more useful kind of food post. No Michelin stars restaurants, no reservations six weeks out, just…

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