Turku Finland to the Ferry
There was a layer of ice on everything this morning when we left Helsinki, including the car, which took much scraping on Kim’s part. The overpasses are icy and it’s vacillating between snow, sleet and rain. Helsinki is the capital of Finland, known for its innovative art, unique culture, and modern architecture. The city was originally founded in 1550 and served as a strategic military center for King Gustavus Vasa of Sweden. It was annexed by Russia for a period and ultimately declared its independence in 1917. Don’t plan to sightsee much – it’s not really that type of city. Helsinki does not have an impressive or even particularly nice old downtown. It’s just another really large city, so we opted to forego spending much time here and instead head to Turku where we are booked on the overnight ferry to Stockholm. Sweden. We’ll go to Market Hall and Market Square in Turku to see if we can find any things Finnish we can’t live without before boarding the ferry and leaving th...