James & Heather Travelogues

After attending Jon & Sini's wedding (thanks guys!), we returned the car to Turku (sniff, sniff - I was liking it) and caught a train to Helsinki.

We spent a short time with Sarah, Dan & Tommy - wishing bon voyage to Sarah and Tom as they were returning to Australia. The rest of the time in Helsinki was spent doing the rapid itinerary sight-seeing that we have perfected over the last few months so that we could take advantage of the beaches and the sun.

The main highlight with Helsinki was that it was the first use of the tent we had bought for Roskilde (our friends lent us their's when we there). Unfortunately, we were pretty hopeless without instructions and it took us two attempts to get it up (where have I heard that before?) and when it was up it seemed to shake a bit. Camping in Finland is a treat, the campsites are well equipped and the one we were staying at had a river alongside it where we could sunbake. One pain in the bum is the fact that the sun sets at around 1:30am and rises at 3:30am, at which point the birds think it is very entertaining to serenade the campers. Heather slept with ear plugs in and I buried my head under a towel.

Still good fun though.