Finland

Not being able to visit Tallinn we spend the day in Helsinki revisiting places and exploring the Parliament area for the first time

Today we spend the day exploring Helsinki visiting between others the Senate Square and the Uspenski Cathedral

Our major stop today is Olavinlinna an Unesco World Heritage Site and a major beautiful castle in the middle of a lake that can be visited as part of a guided tour

We start the day with an exploration of Kuopio with a focus on the docks the cathedral and then finishing with a row of preserved wooden houses called Pikku Pietarin

Continuing south we see our last reindeer, eat lunch at Hesburger and then visit Kajaani Castle before stopping for the night in Kuopio

The first major stop for today is Rovaniemi with the focus on the Santa Claus villages in the self proclaimed home of Santa Claus

We return from Sweden to our accommodation via a very roundabout route stopping to find a crashed plane and seeing lots of reindeer on the way

First stop today is a short hike on Tervetuloa Sompasen to explore the Lappish forest and enjoy some great views of the area

We stay a couple nights on the Arctic Circle exploring the area viewing reindeer and also taking a short jaunt to Sweden for a few hours

From Jakobstad we go north to the Arctic Circle meeting our first reindeer with only a few stops on the way with the major one being Liminganlahti Bird Sanctuary