Day 9 Oulu to Helsinki
We were up early to catch the 9.16 train back to Helsinki. It was another beautiful morning and the wind had dropped so we walked the 1 mile to the station.
The train arrived half an hour before scheduled departure as it is starting from here in Oulu.
We had booked upstairs seats in the quiet carriage where we have complimentary tea, coffee and water.
The journey was not as spectacular as I imagined it would be. For the first 4 hours it was mainly trees - millions of them. Lots of silver birch and pine trees. The landscape is very flat so no hills or mountains. There were a few breaks in the trees for arable farmland or small towns and villages where the train stopped. Also a few lakes and rivers but if you blinked you woukd miss them.
The scenery got better as we approached Tampere where there were a lot more lakes and we started seeing cows, sheep and a few deer (not reindeer)
After 6 and a half hours, we arrived in Helsinki, just 10 minutes late. The temperature is considerably warmer than Oulu and it was warm and sunny. We checked back into the same hotel that we had left 3 days ago and had a coffee.
We went out early evening first making another attempt to find the entrance to the Botanical Gardens. This time we succeeded. The gardens were open until 8pm so we had a quick look around but it was getting dark so we will try and get back tomorrow.
We then walked back to the city centre via an inlet leading to the sea where there were a few boats sailing. We found somewhere to eat and then came back for an early night as we want to do a few things tomorrow morning before we make our way to the airport for our flight back to Stansted.
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