- There is a pub tram
Helsinki’s pub tram
- Visit Estonia & be home for dinner
- Loads of personal space
- These changing sheds
- Mushroom season
Market Square
- Pop over to Russia
St Petersburg
- Inspiring interiors
Helsingin Yliopisto Kirjasto (Helsinki University Library)
- Reindeer pate
- A new kind of hopscotch
Lauttasaari bridge
- Forest sauna
- Beautiful tramways
Kallio
- Really old festivals
Baltic Herring Festival – 270 years old
- Rum bars
Navy Jerry’s
- Exotic creatures
- Picnics in summer
Kaivopuisto
- Historical spaces
- Growing cafe scene
Kahvipaatimo
- Art nouveau suburbs
- Island pizza bars
- Beautiful sculptures
- Summer cabins in winter
- Blini
Pelmenit
- Nude public swimming
- Foggy nights
Posti
- Galleries for children
- Design pilgrimage
- Coffee and doughnuts are pretty much staple
Kahvi ja munkki
- Oases of Silence
- Tropical landscapes
- Sand sculptures just two hours east
Lappeenranta annual sand sculpture event
- Frozen harbours in winter
- Midsummer bonfires
- Modern Art
- Great public libraries
- Saunas for hire
- Fun at the fun park
- An old island fortress
- Death penalty themed cocktails
Liberty or Death
- Finding local treasures
- Huge indoor playgrounds
- Long summer evenings
- Pop over to Stockholm
- Find good falafel
- Walk over to islands
- Wooden bicycles
Helsinki bicycles
- Central Station
Rautatientori
- Rye bread sandwiches
- Neo gothic architecture
- City sunsets
Sunset
- Finnish products
Juuri Rye Whiskey
- Views from great heights
Torni bar – on the 13th floor
- Seaside cafes
- Moomin & friends live just two hours west
- World class festivals
Flow Festival
- These at every cafe
- Wild flowers in summer
- Iconic design
Design Museum
- Soviet bars
- Wild animals
- Long golden autumn
Lastenlahdenpuisto
- An artist village only 2 hours away
- Dedicated cycle-ways
- A church carved from rock
- Summer kiosks
Seahorse kioski
- Colourful festivals
- An island dedicated to sauna and hot tubs
- Days where the city becomes a restaurant
- Moomin at the library
- Summer cafes
- Cute locals
- Cavorting seals
Havis Amanda
- Danish sandwiches
- Wonderful book stores
- Less than an hour to Latvia
- New ways of commuting
- Santa Lucia
- Thousands of chocolates
Fazer Cafe
- Forest walks in the city
- Boat shed cafes
- Oases of green
- Sauna boats
Sauna boats
- Christmas shopping
Stockmann
- So many cakes
- A cafe named Fanny
- Loads of antique stores
- Sauna cosmetics
- A day trip to Porvoo
- Boat cafes
Relandersgrund – open in summer
- Streets that are heated
- You can meet Santa
- Summer time cruises
The archipelago
- Blueberry pies
- Moss graffiti
- Meat in a can
- Beautiful islands
- Fish n’ chips by the water
- Boating canals
Ruoholahti
- Finnish cocktails
A21 Cocktails
- The porridge truck
Porridge truck
- Spring blossoms
Lastenlahdenpuisto
- ..and it’s not Vegas
View from Cafe IPI
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Hey Helsinki 
Oh Mel, I LOVE this!! Brilliant work, but you left out the top reason-to come and visit you!!
Hope you are well. Keep up the fantastic work.
Much love
Marina
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Thanks Marina! You would be most welcome any time! Xx
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A post, and a place, to treasure! I will pull up this post next time someone asks me why I want so much to return to Finland. Great job (and I’m looking forward to your future lists and photographs, as you discover more and more reasons to visit Helsinki and Finland), Leslie
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To do that list will keep anyone busy and entertained for quite a while!
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Great post Mel xxx
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Thanks Sundari xx
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