3 DAYS IN HELSINKI - A GUIDE

European city breaks are a great way to escape the everyday slog of work and discover the smells, foods and entire atmosphere of somewhere completely new in a matter of days with just a short plane ride involved. I've seen a few places that way in Europe in the last few years and Helsinki, the capital of Finland, had been on my list of destinations to spend a long weekend at for a while. Why this slightly off the wall choice? Well a previous and not very well remembered visit there kind of inspired a return. I am a quarter Finnish and at the tender age of 7 was dragged to Helsinki to visit my grandma. I don't really remember a lot about the trip other than...