3 Days of Adventure in Helsinki: A Travel Diary, Helsinki, Finland

3 Days of Adventure in Helsinki: A Travel Diary is a blog post about my 3 day trip to Helsinki. The main reason for this trip was to finally meet up with my best Finnish friend. We have met through our blogs and became real best friends through e-mails and messages about our life, family and jobs. Read on if you want to find out what I did and saw during my three day stay in Helsinki.

My Helsinki flight was on Thursday morning and my return flight was a red eye flight on Sunday. So, there was just enough time to explore Helsinki with my friend and to meet her family. I rarely fly with national airlines but in this case I didn’t have any choice but to use the direct flight from Zagreb to Helsinki by Finnair. Unfortunately, this line doesn’t operate anymore. It was a straightforward flight which rewarded me with beautiful views of Finnish countryside as the plane descended to lower altitude some time before actual landing. At the airport I was surprised by the depth of the entire building since going down to the train station felt like entering the caves of Moria. My train ride to the city center was comfortable and relatively quick. I gazed through the windows at lovely Finnish countryside and I saw a couple of sights as we approached Helsinki such as Linnanmäki amusement park. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).