Finland Part 3

The third day of our Finland adventure saw another early start with Nesquick and tea. Although as we were clearing up the room we found Nesquick everywhere.... what we were doing we have no idea!Our first stop of the day was to a rather unusual church in Helsinki, which was circular and built into a pile of granite, with a large domed roof. 

We had a wander up over the roof, which was still completely covered in snow, then headed inside. The roof had a large bronze disc, which meant the acoustics inside were amazing. 

After this it was time to head back to the Hotel to pick up our bags and head to the station (with a quick stop for train snacks of course!) for our journey down to Turku, where Keira lives. Helsinki station is another awesome building, I wish more stations in England would look as good :(

Standing in the queue to buy tickets we witnessed the police coming to pick a drunk up in the station, using poking sticks!! Haha!! Although the uniform isn't nearly as nice as over here :P

We got Keira to buy our tickets, then jumped on the train. The train was two-tiered, but we decided to sit on the bottom. 

We also managed to buy the wrong tickets, and when the Finnish-only guard tried to communicate this, we had to enlist the help from a lady on the train who happened to speak English. Language failure 4.

The train journey was 2 hours from Helsinki to Turku, but we had plenty to keep us occupied. Somehow I managed to pick up a Soviet paper, which I thought was a Metro type affair, and we had snacks. O yes we had snacks. One one thing, we had shed loads of Nesquick left. But we also had a giant bag of crisps, Geisha chocolate (dribbles), and sweets....

Haha

Also, everytime Sarah decided to take a picture out the window, there would be a tunnel...hahaha 

Upon the arrival to turku, we jumped on a bus to Keira's accommodation. She has a nice room in a building with a lift that doesn't get stuck :D Though this doesn't mean I particularly liked it any more :P

We dumped our bags and headed straight out to explore the town. We stopped off at the Catherdral first of all. It was more of what I would expect a Cathedral to look like, made of stone, had tombs inside and of course boats hanging from the ceiling :D

We didn't hang around for long, mainly because some kind of service was about to start, but we thought we would continue our travels to a pub. A pub that used to be a public toilet. Oh yes...

Classy these Finnish...

Dinner up next, and we had a feast! 

Took us a while to decide whether or to tip the waitress though, the guidebook was NO HELP WHATSOEVER!!

Anyway we decided to throw in a couple of Euros and the waitress was so thankful I think we made her year! So make sure you tip in Turku :P

Absolutely knackered, we just decided to take it easy and head back to Keira's flat for hot chocolate and much catching up!