James & Heather Travelogues

After Helsinki, we caught the train back to Turku and checked ourselves into a hostel (that's enough camping for now). Turku is the former capital of Finland, and is seeking to be the European City of Culture in 2011. All this was wasted on 2 Australians and an Englishman though, as we had a much better plan.

One of the highlights of Turku is that along its river there are a number of boats moored up, which are licensed for sale of alcohol. The 3 of us decided that a pub crawl was therefore in order, working our way through as many of them as possible.

At around midnight, we decided that there was one more place we need to go: a bar that promised 150 different brands of beer. We headed there and read through a beer list that would put most wine lists in 4 star restaurants to shame. I managed a couple that were both English: Spitfire (an old favourite) and another one whose name escapes me (maybe I had too many). Very nice, all up.

Our last day in Turku was spent lying in bed trying to get rid of the drilling noise we could hear. Off to Sweden tomorrow...