Finland
We have 3-day unlimited train/ tram/ metro tickets for Helsinki, so on Sunday night, after sharing a large grocery story pastry for dinner, we decided to hop on a tram, ride it away from the city centre, and turn around when we (a) felt like it and/or (b) reached
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After Kauppatori on Sunday afternoon, we went back to the Helsinki Central Library Oodi. Not much is open in Helsinki on Sundays, but the library is! And we wanted to check out Level 2 and the secret room we'd missed on Level 3... 0:00 /0:14 1×
Finland
Today (Sunday), after a quiet morning at our hostel, we set off to Kauppatori Market Square. This is an open-air market at the same harbour where we caught the ferry to Suomenlinna yesterday. Here, we finally had the chance to try some Finnish food, including reindeer meat! This is a
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While B and the boys were visiting the Military Museum at the Fortress of Suomenlinna, I went to the Toy Museum. It was extremely fascinating and I thoroughly enjoyed myself! The Toy Museum is a private collection of toys dating from the 1830s through to the 1990s. It consisted of
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While researching what to do in Helsinki on Friday afternoon/evening, I discovered the Temppeliaukio church (Church in the Rock) was hosting a free concert with student conductors leading the navy band. So we went along! This Lutheran church, an architectural marvel built into a rock hill and popular with
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On Friday afternoon (still the same day we landed in Finland!), we took the tram into the centre of Helsinki and spent an hour or two hanging out at the public library. It was AMAZING!!! I had a great time in the children's area on Level 3, looking
Finland
We have arrived in Helsinki, Finland after our 13.5-hour all-night flight from Singapore! We left Singapore around 10pm on Thursday and arrived in Helsinki before 6am on Friday, so we really just had an extra-long night. We all got a few hours of sleep on the plane and are
Singapore
Addy connected us with her good friend Nachi, who invited us to lunch during our final few hours in Singapore. It was lovely to meet her! Some Singapore Airport sights... 0:00 /0:26 1× Finland, here we come!
Singapore
Something I started doing on our last holiday (a cruise back in February) is writing a haiku each evening to capture a moment/memory from the day. Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines, with the lines having five, seven and five syllables respectively. We have
Malaysia
We had traditional Malaysian noodle soup for Wednesday lunch... And a Turkish feast for Wednesday dinner... And here are some of the snacks we bought at the fishing village (the rest got eaten on the boat without being documented 😁)... It was another delicious day!
Malaysia
After the dog shelter, Mimi took us to Kukup Fishing Village, which is about an hour's drive from JB. It was too late in the day for us to explore the national park island she had wanted to take us to for a walk, but we took a
Malaysia
During our chats with Mimi as she was showing us around on Wednesday, we discovered she and a friend have very recently set up their own dog shelter. There are many stray dogs here and the government doesn't do anything other than catch and euthanize them if someone