Our shore excursion today was a guided walk - we got a map and an iPod with pre-loaded commentary. We made it about half-way through before we decided it was just too dry - a tedious American voice telling us lots of facts about buildings but no real historical information. So, we knew that we weren't too far away from the Military Museum, so we went there instead. Then we just wandered back to the centre of the city and caught a shuttle back. Luckily, Helsinki was also in the free roaming area so I could use google Maps to make sure we were heading in the right direction.
Just a couple of pictures today:
They warned us over and over while waiting for the excursion that it wasn't going to be warm outside, but they clearly aren't acclimatised to Canberra weather. I took a jumper with me but never put it on - to me it was a lovely cool day mostly, except when I got caught in the sun and it was almost too warm.
We got back to the ship just before 3pm and got some lunch, then proceeded to go to sleep and missed dinner - we wouldn't have been hungry enough to eat then anyway.
I've now gotten all our stuff together for St. Petersburg tomorrow - the Russians are very strict about documentation and I'd imagine in the current climate would like nothing more than to irritate a few western tourists. So, I've got our visas (aka our tour tickets), passports of course, a copy of the photo page of the passport and a copy of our passport photo. Pretty sure that's everything they want!
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