Helsinki

One of my first trips was to Helsinki, I went with a friend to spend one night and although the cold weather and the darkness (when is about 3 p.m it starts to be darker and darker), I really like the city. Helsinki is so different from Turku, Helsinki is a big city, with big buildings and a lot of lights and shops, and Turku is a small town but more comfortable to live (in my opinion). We went on January so the lights of Christmas time were on and that was really cute, I remember that there were two reindeers made of lights (sooo cute!). The first day we visited the city centre, a market, the harbour, and some buildings and, of course, we took hot chocolate because it was so cold! We slept in a hostel and the next day we went to visit Suomenlinna. Suomenlinna is an island quite close to Helsinki, you can go on the ferry and you can use the card for public transport as in the city, so it´s cheap to go. It´s a small island but in my opinion is beautiful, it´s, like everything here, peaceful, and you can visit the entire island in a pair of hours (I think that is best in the morning because of the sun). Like a good tourist, we had lunch at Hesburger (if you don´t know what is Hersburguer is because you had never been in Finland, there are a lot of them and it´s a fast food burger, and the important point, it´s cheap).  Finally, we went to see the Sibelius monument, and the park where is it located were completely snowed! The only thing we couldn´t do was take a hot chocolate in one special place, because there was full and it was cold to be outside (although there was a fire) but the place is really nice (but sooo small), it´s called Regatta, the next time I´ll go to Helsinki I´ll go it. 

 See you soon Helsinki...