Audrey and I arrived in Helsinki keen to see some of the Architecture that the city is known for.  It is a very clean city with nice wide streets and plenty of trams and buses, free wifi everywhere in the city centre, and lots of ecletic musuems to visit.  When we arrived the cold hit like a sledge hammer.  I can tell you this for free, living and working in New Caledonia has made the both of us soft when it comes to the weather.  Brrrrr.
The other things that is creeping up on both of us is just how tired our legs are getting by the end of the days walking, its getting worse and worse, almost to the point were we will need to just have a day off in the Hotel room soon.  Yep I'm having a little whinge here.
Forgetting the cold, Helsinki is a nice place.  It seems to have a reputation for cutting edge design and being a shopping paradise.  For me it's all a bit expensive so we chose not to buy anything, only window shop, and just concentrate on the museums and free things to do.  One place that is a must is the UNESCO listed Suomenlinna, a Swedish built, French funded, Russian occupied and now Finnished owned fort.  Built in 1748 over numerous islands, it's site was chosen as a defensive position for the Swedes against any potential Russian invasion into the Baltic.  Didn't work though as it was eventually taken by the Russians in 1808.  The classic comment from the Russian commander at the time was something like this; "We have now got a great defensive fort and it only cost me a few men.  Thanks for building it for me Sweden".
I would have loved to venture further into the Finnish interior and visit the 'land of the lakes' and see the Aurora Borealis but that will have to wait for another time.