It isn't easy to get to Helsinki from Salalah (Salalah-Muscat-Istanbul-Heathrow-Helsinki) but the long trip was worth every minute to be back in Helsinki, a beautiful, peaceful city with fabulous museums, great cafes and in summer, stunning markets.
After a few days of enjoying the markets and museums (especially a show of Oiva Toikka's works in glass at the Design Museum) we went to the summer house that Maria designed on a lake about 2 hours north of Helsinki. In the Finnish manner, everything in the house is beautiful and perfectly functional. After 10 months in Oman, nothing could have been more wonderful than trees, water, cool weather, Finnish design, and best of all, catching up on news with Maria and Tapani.
11 PM the day we arrived
Maria keeping fit by rowing us around the lake.
While we were on the lake, Tapani fired up the sauna.
2AM July 17thUnlike the trip from Salalah to Helsinki, a daytrip from Helsinki to Tallinn takes 2 hours on a huge, comfortable cruise ship.
the medieval Town Hall
return to Helsinki at midnight
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