Man överbord!

Mark and I took a Silja Line ferry from Turku to Stockholm. We got a cabin for our eleven-hour crossing of the Gulf of Bothnia. I had

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ABBA The Museum

The hit of Stockholm is undoubtedly ABBA The Museum, or the ABBA Museum as everyone here calls it. Opened in 2013, it draws huge crowds

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Scrabble in Estonian

Rahva Raamat, the largest bookstore in Tallinn, had Scrabble games for sale in three languages: Russian, English and Estonian. I already had a Russian version,

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Changes in Helsinki

Although I was only here two years ago, I have noticed some changes in the city that, more than others, have had a greater effect

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Woe is me

Mark and I arrived in Helsinki yesterday afternoon and as I never sleep on planes I was beat by the time we got to our

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