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We ended up on the 110 road, heading towards Helsinki in the rain. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take long to reach the conclusion that the Fins really need to hire a new animator. It felt like we were constantly scrolling through the same set of hill\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 valley with farmhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 hill with forest\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 with a few random crops and a roadsign or two thrown in to spice things up. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that the sky was miserable, grey and overcast, and we were being consistently mizzled and drizzled on. Add to that the fact that the only people we saw glared at us, and it was a fairly uninspiring experience. <\/p>\n
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This continued on the second day in Finland (with a big thunderstorm thrown in overnight), and we finally made it to Helsinki with some relief \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at least the scenery was different. Some sight-seeing, and then tickets were purchased for the 5.30pm ferry to Tallinn: finally, escape from this miserable, grey place (yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that the weather really does colour your judgement of a place).<\/p>\n
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Distance: <\/strong>194km A groggy awakening on the ferry was followed by a ravenous descent upon the breakfast buffet. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing how much you can eat while cycle touring. A few hours were spent wandering around Turku, bikes everywhere, and a different sort of feel to the city \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in Scandinavia anymore. Arriving in Finland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,141,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-european-bike-epic","category-general","category-trip-reports"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["bikes<\/a>","european bike epic<\/a>","general<\/a>","trip reports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["bikes<\/span>","european bike epic<\/span>","general<\/span>","trip reports<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 17 years ago","modified":"Updated 15 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 27.8.2009","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 27.8.2009 12:34 pm","modified":"Updated on 17.2.2011 4:53 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFlaginess levels:<\/strong> Moderate
\nWifi availability:<\/strong> I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we actually checked for any, due to the rain (although the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn had free wifi, so that was handy)
\nDays of rain:<\/strong> 2\/2
\nMooses:<\/strong> Our time in Finland was entirely moose-free, despite the signs advising of their presence.
\nRandom fact:<\/strong> All terrestrial life in Finland was completely wiped out during the last ice age that ended some 10,000 years ago, following the retreat of the glaciers and the appearance of vegetation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"