Travel Thursday - The Baltic Adventure Part 9

After two full days in Russia, we would have loved a sea day. Instead, we went to our least favourite port, Helsinki Finland. 

Helsinki is a clean modern city. We think we didn't love it in part because we were so tired and in part because it just didn't have the character of some of the other cities we visited. 

While it wasn't my favourite port, it did have one of my favourite sights on the trip, the following statue. We have no idea why this is a thing, but we got on the hop on and off bus at the port and basically turned a corner and there it was, we laughed and laughed!

There was a lot of cool street art.

Here are some of the sights from the city:

The Man in the Square

No idea why this woman was doing this, but it cracked us up!

The house of estates

So there is at least one picture of me in Finland!

St. Joseph's Church

Upsenski Cathedral

One of the most unique churches was the  Temppeliaukio aka the Rock Church. The church was built into the rocks.

While everyone tried to climb on this church at the front . . . .

we walked around the back and I climbed up!

We also took a harbour cruise of the city, and even though we were living on a boat, enjoyed the time on the water.

From the boat we say the Suomenlinna - fortress. If we had more time, we would have checked this out.

A map of the sights we saw from the boat.

Looking back at the city from the water

The ice breakers

We went back to the ship a little early this day, to rest and to get ready for the 5th consecutive port day, Stockholm. Come back next week to see a taste of our 6 hours in Stockholm!