Whistle-stop Helsinki tour

For what it's worth, don't do the quick fire Helsinki tour. It's not bad, but you really are better off walking and bussing it. Otherwise you end up spending too much time at, for example, the church in the rock. Not as interesting as it sounds.



Anyway, you don't want to miss the Sibelius monument but you want to make the time to see the various churches (I didn't get a chance to snapshot them, so check your guidebooks folks) and hopefully the rather fun herring market. I never realised it could taste so good. No more jokes about pickled herring from me. Well, not as many.


Finally in Helsinki, I went to the sea fortress: another UN World Heritage site. Impressive, but more as a symbol than a place. It's effectively a well-fortified village sitting in the Baltic to guard the entire region. Supposedly impregnable, it still looks like Hobbiton in parts.



Off to Stockholm today: I'll be at the Queen's Hotel, Drottninggatan with Tingo if anyone needs us.