Hello my dear readers. Hope you are well.
Apologies for breaking the flow of my Scandinavian adventure narrative but sometimes unexpected things take the priority and you have to put everything else on hold and deal with them. That's life, I guess.
Anyway, back to my story 🙂. If for any reason you would like to go back to Day 1, you can catch it up here.
On the morning of our Day 2 we woke up feeling refreshed and eager to see more of this lovely city.
The room that was booked for us by our tour provider, Nordic Visitor ,was very pleasant, we had a lovely view over the Bay of Finland, the bed was big and comfortable and the amenities were all top notch. But first things first - the breakfast. It was served in a buffet style or smorgasbord as they call it in this neck of the woods.
I am fairly familiar with some of Finnish dishes and the principals of smorgasbord due to the fact that Russia, or USSR as we used to call it back when I was living there, shares a border with Finland and over the years has been engaged in various war conflicts thus having a long history of war and peace between them.
In my view, the most notable similarity between Russian and Finnish cousins would be the use of methods of food preservation of summer seasonal fresh produce that you can eat during the cold winter months.