The first night in the hostel was excellent, had a good night of sleep with a busy day ahead, but a very different busy than the days before. busy with myself, siteseeing. I had a small guidebook from Holland which gave 5 interesting walking routes, and I did 3 of them on my first day....well more or less as every once in a while I got a bit lost, but I crossed Helsinki from north to south and west to east :D I have started with walking to the olympic stadium of 1952, from there on I walked passed the lake (opera, theatre, parliament, etc) to the trainstation after which I crossed the centre of town (senate square (massive Lutheran church), market square, shopping streets, etc.) to the Russian neighbourhood with the biggest orthodox church of Europe. Crossing that area, staring at the big boats, old warehouses that were transferred into nice hip conference centres etc, was very nice.
I Then had an internet break in the extremely beautiful university library also to get warm again. I bought some nice vanilla bread on the market square to also get some fuel again to get me warm inside again. Then it was time to head to the southern point of the Helsinki centre Peninsula and the Eira jugenstill neighbourhood and a beautiful park from where you had a very nice view over all the islands and the coast. Walking back through the nice Eira neighbourhood it was time to meet up with 2 Chilean friends with which I had a nice evening making a great end to a fascinating day. Damn I love traveling!!
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