we arrived late late monday night into turku, my dad had left earlier monday to go back to stockholm and then the states so it was just me and mom on the train...
first of all, if you are ever in russia and considering a trip to finland, definitely fly! we spent about 2 of our 5 hour train ride to helsinki sitting on the border having the russian border patrol walk back and forth with their dogs... what fun.
tuesday my mom's friend megan met us at our hotel and gave us a wonderful tour of turku, we had lunch at a great restaurant called mami where we all had wonderful pumpkin soup and then went to the cathedral in town and a bunch of adorable little shops. we headed to the grocery store that afternoon to buy the ingredients for that night's dinner - REINDEER!!!
we headed over to megan's that night and had a lovely reindeer dinner with her family. wednesday my mom and i spent the day exploring the sights of turku that we hadn't seen the day before, walked to a few more cute shops and went to the finnish equivalent of a saluhall, although i can't remember the finnish word for it. we also made it to the turku castle and an interesting lecture on finnish religion with megan and her husband chris. we went to another great restaurant that night which was really fun.
the next morning mom and i headed back to stockholm. it was really fun to see finland and compare it to sweden given that they were a part of sweden for so long. lots of things looked the same, same stores, lots of similar food etc, but i think that under the surface the countries were really quite different... megan and chris were really knowledgeable about finnish culture so it was great to compare and contrast the two countries with them
thanks again megan for the great tour!!!!
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