After a shower, the day started with us finding a cafe in the station for breakfast. The old lady in the shop spoke english so it was easy to find out what the various foods were.

Back in the room, i had to deal with some work issues while Kaoru planned the day. Once i had finished we left a little bit later than originally planned.

We caught the train in to the city first, and bought 48 hour Helsinki cards. With our Tallinn cards we got a €5 discount each which was great! We then caught the ferry over to Suomenlinna – the Finnish castle. Which is really a fort, consisting of 6 islands. We walked around a bit and then did a 1.00 guided tour of a part of one of the islands. It was a very windy day, and it was a cold wind.

We wandered round a bit more before catching a ferry back to the main land. We then walked to Amos Rex – a museum of modern art. Pipsa had told us about it and asit was included in our Helsinki pass, why not?Well it was a different exhibition than when Pipsa went and we were quite disappointed. The only consolation was that we hadn’t paid the €15 to get in.

We went outside and had a beer in a sheltered area so it wasn’t too cold, and looked at the discounts available to us with our pass. After the drink we went up to the state museum as it was only a 7 minute walkaway. I think this was my favorite museum of the trip. It had the most detail of the stone ages, and non war related historical events. Of course there were floors on the atrocities of people in the past as no museum would be compete without it.

After the museum we caught a tram back to the centre and walked to the docks. We grabbed some food from one of the few stalls still open at the market and then got on a 6.30 boat cruise around the bay (€30 worth, but included! ). Because it was so windy and cool, we went downstairs and hada drink, and stayed down there for the duration.

Once we were back at Port we got off and looked at a couple of restaurants on our way to the station, as we needed a “proper” meal instead of the junk we had been eating. But because of the food we had eaten as the cruise started, and it was already after 8, our plan was to get a pizza when we got home. On the way i got a message from Tommi inviting us to join him for a drink so we went with that option.

It was a different bar to where Kaoru and i had been last night – Tommi and Ville were on the roof top enjoying a cool beer. We wentto the supermarket before it closed and bought a few bottles, and then joined them for a couple of drinks.

Ville was going to make pea soup and invited us to join them so we thought why not? So we went back to their room and had a chat. Pipsa was in bed, so we didn’t see her. But had a couple of drinks and some good soup with a special Finnish mustard for flavoring. We then went back to our room and called it a night. It was almost even dark!