[Grace] One Day in Helinski

We went to five cities on this 9 day Baltic Cruise: Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm. For the first two cities we had tour guides, but for Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm the kids were in charge of creating an itinerary. Kate had Tallinn, Cannon had Stockholm and I was in chagre of Helsinki.


Spoiler alert: there is not much to do in Helsinki. It’s a small city. But 100% worth going to just to try and pronounce the Finnish street names.

To start off in Helsinki, we took a ferry to Suomenlinna, which is a small island that is a ferry ride away from the market square.

A view of market square from the ferry

Suomenlinna was a great place to start off our day. The weather was great, the island was beautiful and we had a good time exploring.

After we took the ferry ride back, we had three churches on the agenda. First up was the Upenski Cathedral, right next to Market Square. It was a quick stop, but I thought it was worth spending a few minutes there because it's very cool looking.

Next up was the Cathedral of Helsinki, a beautiful white church. It's up on a hill, and so from far away it looks like it's floating above the city.

Finally, we made a stop at the Church of the Rock. This building was incredible, but felt very different from the other churches. Church of the Rock is a church with walls that are made out of bedrock - it's hard to explain, but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

This is a view of the ceiling

After that, we took the tram back to our cruise ship. It was overall a successful day, and I learned a little bit more about how to plan out an itinerary.