{"id":631,"date":"2019-07-05T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T10:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anubhavvacations.in\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2019-07-20T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:11:13","slug":"helsinki-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anubhavvacations.in\/blog\/helsinki-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki, ten years…!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came here 10 years ago. In the \u2018not so spring’ day of early May, I followed the instructions given by the hostel website to arrive here at the Euro Hostel, Helsinki, from the Vantaa Airport. I don’t think there were any google maps back then coz I remember me walking these very streets, with a fold-out map. I was new to Helsinki, not only that I was new to travel.<\/p>\n

If I say a lot has changed ever since it will be a cliche, but it really has and it hasn’t. Scandinavia still makes me feel the way it did back then. There is still so much to learn from the way people work here, way the things function. Last evening when I arrived in Helsinki, I realized that I am staying close to the Hostel I stayed back in 2009. Back then I had a fold-out, now I just blend in.<\/p>\n

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Helsinki Evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Helsinki will always be special because of how cold and grey it felt back then and how warm it feels now, and the weather has nothing to do with it. The radio next to me plays commercials in Finnish, as I wait for my laundry cycle to finish. Finnish is different, in ways where it doesn’t really belong to any family. I think I like that about Finnish, just as I do with Hungarian and Turkish<\/a>. They all belong to one family; every language is unique.<\/p>\n

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Euro Hostel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think, what can I write about Helsinki? Favorite things to do here? Maybe I don’t like doing anything in particular here. I just like to walk, and if you are coming here for the first time, I would only advise you to take a Tram, buy a day ticket and move. Move with the crowd, which mostly would be tourists. I remember how I stared outside the window on that cold rainy evening, amazed at how clean and empty everything was. Well, it was not only my first time in Helsinki but also in Europe.\u00a0I did not have anything in particular that I wanted to see back then, and it was only later that I realized that through the walk and the tram ride I had almost passed or entered (more of the former) 70% of the sites, mentioned in Helsinki’s recommended list of things to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Helsinki in a day?<\/strong><\/p>\n