Finland
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Finland is known as a land of beautiful lakes, which we visited on first class trains. This calm lake is perfectly reflecting the bright sky and billowy white clouds. |
| Central Helsinki is graced with a beautiful downtown park, where hundreds of people "chill-out" on a Sunday afternoon in summer. |
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Helsinki Railroad station with classic architectural features we saw repeated throughout the city. This is where we ended our three months of travel using the Eurail pass. |
| Cruise ships are big business in Scandinavia, as most people visit these countries only via the cold waters of the North & Baltic Seas, exploring various coastline cities rarely venturing very far inland. |
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The state capital building in Helsinki, being set up for some sort of meeting or festivities. The President of Finland is a woman, by the way, who had just been married in the week we arrived there. |
| All over Europe the double decker bus, or a tandem trolley, such as the one shown here, is an indispensable mode of public transportation. |
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