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Finnish people GATHER!
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: 1000mAh on August 13, 2011, 11:47:49 AM ---^ Try a day trip to Hanko, long sand beaches, bars, and much more :P also, there you can find a lot of fresh fish for kind of cheap. They Speak finnish and swedish 50-50 there and also there is quite good service in english.
also, Tampere might be a good place to visit and don't forget Savonlinna.
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Way too much travelling. I'll be sticking to Helsinki tbh; I'm going to Suemonlinna (?) whilst I'm around but as I said, only there for three days so I don't want to waste 1/3rd of that travelling. If I returned for a longer stay I'd probably spend more time exploring the surrounding areas.
1000mAh:
^ Suomenlinna, and if you stay in Helsinki area, at least visit Espoo & Vantaa :P
and suomenlinna is sveaborg in swedish :P
rostheferret:
--- Quote from: 1000mAh on August 13, 2011, 12:22:58 PM ---^ Suomenlinna, and if you stay in Helsinki area, at least visit Espoo & Vantaa :P
and suomenlinna is sveaborg in swedish :P
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Eh, possibly. It depends how long it takes us to look around Helsinki. Besides, your metro map looks like a clusterfuck of frightening and doesn't even take me that far, not to mention I thought they were pretty much just suburban areas nearby? It's like going to London and spending your time around the council estates...
(click to show/hide)Seriously?!?!?!
1000mAh:
Thats the tram map.
Metro map:
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Then we also have commuter trains and busses. Well, the easiest way around in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa & Kauniainen area is to use busses or Train.
In Herlsinki it would be Tram.
...and subway if you want to get fast into the big areas that have lots of things. (more malls, etc)
Also, The commuter Train from Helsinki to Kauklahti takes about 30min.
Helsinki is just like a normal city, expect smaller. You find a lot of drunktards, etc from there. (as well as from Leppävaara and Espoon Keskus) But that just tells you where the pubs are :P
But to be straight, here isn't much in Finland to see. at least on the metropolitan area. just shopping centers, parks, and pubs.
only few good and neat looking beaches. but the Lakes are worth seeing. at least on the evening when they are all silent. you might see few fishes.
You could also waste one day effectively at Linnanmäki.
The difreence between Espoon and Helsinki is that Espoo has less malls/shopping centers and more nature :P Hell, I live in Espoon Keskus and am able to see forest from my window :P
and suburban? Whole fucking Finland is suburban. here is 5 375 276 finns in a country around the size of Japan.
(that amount is from late December 2010)
Halsinki is only a nearly a city, there is only over 600 000 finns living in Helsinki, and in Paris there is 2,1 million. yeah, that is nearly half of the whole population in Finland. The only things to see here really are forests and lakes. ...and lappland.
but if you want to see buildings, then go to Helsinki, it will remind of you from St.Petersburg. Only that Helsinki is smaller.
But well, you could go to see the olympia stadion in Helsinki, yes it is called olympia stadion, korkeasaari, that is a zoo btw, or seurasaari. finnish nature and history on its best :P and of course Linnanmäki and the National Museum.
but nothing else, that is all.
sry, I did write longer than I tough I would >.<
rostheferret:
Nah, lengthy is fine if its useful. I had heard about one place out of the way that sounded like it might be interesting, Kaitalampi lake or something (stupid Finnish spellings >.<), but it depends if we have time. My friend is very much a city dweller so dragging him out of major metropolitan areas requires some careful planning on how I'm gonna sell it to him. Going to a lake is easy, I'll just tell him there's wild piranha inhabiting it or something.
Never been to St. Petersburg. Hell, this is my first trip to Eastern Europe, but there is a reason I'm only going for a few days. Estonia looked like a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to spend too long there, and when I noticed the ferry was only a couple of hours I thought i'd extend my long weekend into a week, adding Finland to the journey. I mean nothing derogatory about this, there isn't an awful lot special about where I live either. A chunk of a roman wall by a lake, a couple of museums, an old roman market that has nothing to do with the romans any more. They sometimes shoot "Eastenders" down here, when they need a church for something, but that's about it.
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