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Europe Day 27: Points East from Helsinki

21 July 2017 • 235 km / 146 mi (map)

  • First published on ericscouten.com
  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 20 August 2023
  • Finland 3

Decided to take it easy today, so I hit the motorway east from Helsinki for an hour or so and then took the old / slow roads back to the city.

View from my hotel room at 3:25am:

An elevated view of a city skyline at dawn, with a glowing orange and yellow band along the horizon beneath a deep blue sky. Streetlights and building lights dot the darkened cityscape, and a river or canal in the foreground reflects the lights, with an industrial chimney visible on the right.
Helsinki, Finland
A broad green farm field under a bright blue summer sky dotted with puffy white clouds, with red barns and a distant tree line along the horizon, and purple wildflowers in the foreground.
Lovisa, Finland
An old weathered wooden barn with a patchwork rusted metal roof stands in a green field, surrounded by tall grass and purple wildflowers, with distant forest and farmland beneath a blue sky with scattered white clouds.
Lovisa, Finland
A weathered grey wooden barn with a rusty red metal roof stands at the edge of a lush green field in the Finnish countryside, surrounded by birch and spruce trees under a partly cloudy sky. A small red cottage and other houses are visible among the trees in the background.
Lovisa, Finland
A cute house in the town of Porvoo. · Porvoo, Finland

9:10pm: Looked out the window from my hotel to find this large vessel being towed into port.

Helsinki, Finland

A friend who is originally from Finland recommended some places to see west of Helsinki, so I shall spend some time on those tomorrow.

Helsinki, Finland, and points east · 235 km / 146 mi
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