Destinations
Helsinki City Center Walking Guide
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…
Click to Explore and DiscoverStockholm Vasa Museum on Djurgården
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…
Click to Explore and DiscoverEating in Helsinki
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…
Click to Explore and DiscoverDay Trip to Nuuksio, Chasing Real Finnish Wilderness
Bilberries, bedrock, and a duck shaped nature center. How a day trip to Nuuksio taught me how Finland’s forests actually work. If Porvoo is Finland’s history on display, Nuuksio is the version of Finland that doesn’t perform for visitors at all. It’s just there, quiet, doing what it’s done since the last ice age. A…
Click to Explore and DiscoverDay Trip to Gripsholm Castle from Stockholm
Day Trip to Gripsholm Castle, From Missed Trains to Sweden’s Oldest Portrait Gallery About an hour outside Stockholm, a day trip to Gripsholm Castle brings you to a red brick castle with copper domes sitting on a spit of land in Lake Mälaren. It has guarded the faces of Swedish royalty for nearly five hundred…
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