adventure
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Kathryn’s Travel Tips
Some of these things I knew before I set off, others were things I have learnt along the way (links were appropriate), and I will probably revisit this post and update in the final days of my trip: Luggage Many people will tell you that you can wheel your luggage everywhere – good luck with…
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Stage 5.10 – Goodbye Lithuania, Hello Poland
I am at hour 4 into an 8.5 hour train journey and I thought that to change things up a little (and as I am nearly at the end of my cross stitch so will shortly be craft bereft for the remainder of my trip) I would do a “final” Baltics post. My journey began…
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Stage 5.9 – Vilnius
I may be in the Baltics (so named for a reason), and I may have been Lapland trained, but OMG, it’s FREEZING! The weather forecast says its been -10 but there is also some kind of arctic wind going on so although I wore basically all of my clothes, I was still extremely cold by…
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Stage 5.8 – Riga to Vilnius
Well, hello, 2024 and my 40s – QUELLE HORREUR! No, really, it’s fine. I promise. So, I did go out and experience some Riga New Year merriment, and you know what, it is all rather delightful. At 6 squares around the Old Town from 9pm, there was live music or DJing and/or light shows. So…
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Stage 5.7 – Riga (and the last day of 2023!)
It may be New Year’s Eve, but this shall not hold me back from my touristing! I started my morning with an amble into town to meet up with my walking tour. However, I was hit with unforecasted snow. Whilst snow is, of course, very pretty, I was not wearing my hat and looked like…
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Stage 5.6 Goodbye Tallinn, Hello Riga
Something rather unusual happened yesterday (Friday) – it rained! I have not experienced rain since I left Italy and it came as something of a surprise. Why is it that snow is delightful, and yet rain dreary and miserable? But we all know it is. Anyway, enough of that, yes, it did rain, but luckily,…
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Stage 5.5 – Goodbye Finland, and Hello Estonia (Tallinn)
On my travels, I have taken many forms of transportation, but Wednesday was my first international ferry. I started my journey in Turtu on my first packed Finnish train (something of a culture shock), then a quick tram transfer to the ferry terminal. Boarding the ferry was an interesting experience, it is when all sense…
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Stage 5.4 – Helsinki (again) and Turku
My train to Helsinki did eventually “fill-up,” so there were 2 of us in the carriage. If only travelling by train in the UK on Christmas Eve was like this… Anyway, I arrived at Helsinki station on time and walked the 10 minutes to my AirBnB, collected the key from the lockbox, and then the…
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Stage 5.3 – Rovaniemi
As you may have guessed from yesterday’s quick post, I have indeed made it to Rovaniemi where Santa Claus’ office is located. However, I will get to that… On Friday, we were all ready to set off for the 3 hour journey from Äkäslompolo south towards Rovaniemi. We had a little delayed start as the…
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*Newsflash* “Santa Claus is on his way”.
This evening (Saturday 23rd December) at 19:15 Finnish time Santa departs from his office at the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi (he leaves a little earlier than Christmas Eve to make sure he is in position ready to start his deliveries what with travel time and all…). I’ll be there to wave him off, i.e. this…
