When a friend asks for recommendations on a trip they have planned, the natural thing is to search back to those feelings & sensations of the time that you visited that same place. In reliving the best parts of a holiday or journey, we find the things that made it special and we start to travel again by memory. Just that has happened a week ago, as a treasured travelling friend is planning a visit to Helsinki and asked my advice. Spurred on by the excitement I felt in recommending this glorious city, I decided to add to my musings on what makes it so very special.
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The start of a journey into the unknown, especially as a solo traveller is always a little easier if one can arrive in the new place and feel a sense of connection. Reflecting on the beginnings of my recent trip to Sth America, I got off to one of those starts! Right from the landing in Chile, all set to head north into the highest desert of the world and across into the wilds of the Bolivian south-west, I felt at ease.
At the beginning of 2016, I decided – on a caprice – that for my first journey of the year I would go to Helsinki. I was keen to see a few new countries and for some reason Helsinki leapt to mind as a great place for a 10day break. With a bit of research, I discovered that I could tick TWO ānew country boxesā whilst there because I could easily incorporate a mini-break to Tallinn in my allocated time. Fantastic!