The first leg of our flight took us from Las Vegas to London Heathrow. We departed late enough that we thought we would have a good chance of getting some sleep in our business class fully reclining seats. No such luck. Neither of us slept much at all. We had about a 4‑hour our layover in London before catching our Finnair flight to Helsinki.
We arrived in Helsinki around 11:30 at night and were met by
our guide, Raila, and our driver. It
didn’t take too long to get to our hotel.
After getting maps and getting last minute information we headed to our
room.
Since neither of us had slept on the plane we opted to not
set the alarms and just miss the free breakfast. The plan was to get up later, have a
leisurely lunch and then hit the streets for some sightseeing. Sounded like a good day and a good way to
semi-adjust to the time change. At
2:15pm the maid tapped on our door. We
were both still dead to the world. Since
sunsets at 4:17 today it looks like we will have a very short day of
sightseeing.
We did make it out for an hour or two of walking around the
main area of town…a long esplanade where they still had the Christmas lights
up. It was very pretty…especially when
it started getting a dark and it started snowing.
Many of the buildings bordering the esplanade and along the nearby streets are from the art nouveau period and are very beautiful.
Because of COVID, the current regulations are that restaurant and eateries must close no later than 6:00pm, so we had an early dinner in the hotel.
We were still pretty tired so we opted to go to bed rather
early.
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