Around the Europe for 30 days, Helsinki (09-Sep-10)

Hi,

I'm going to start posting here photos from my railroad trip around the Europe (2010'09 - 2010'10).
Let's get started! The first part is Helsinki, Finland.

My trip started in my hometown, Saint Petersburg. It is not that Saint Petersburg in Florida, USA, but the original one - Saint Petersburg in Russian Federation.

Helsinki is the capital of Finland and can be reached by train Saint-Petersburg - Helsinki for example. At the time of writing, the fastest train (a.k.a. "Allegro") will overcome this distance in about three hours, but at the time of my trip it was six hours (this train was known as "Sibelius").

09-Sep-2010
Hometown, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Finland Railway station.

Inside the car of "Sibelius" train. The car was almost filled with a group of tourists from Asia (as far as I remember, they were from Indonesia).

I took afternoon Sibelius, so I arrived at night to Helsinki Central Railway station (aka Helsingin päärautatieasema and Helsingfors centralstation in Finnish and Swedish accordingly). The station is organized well and not so big, so there was no problem to navigate in the right direction.



I booked room for one night in Scandic Continental online via booking.com. This hotel is in walking distance from the Helsinki Central Railway station (~10-15 minutes) and can be reached easily.

Try to find some panorama stitching bugs on the photo of my room in Scandic Continental:


P.S. You can always find all posts related to my trip if you will search posts by tag "around the europe".