Last day.

So a trip to the Estonian open air museum.

Catching the trolley bus.

The wigwam shaped hut is a summer kitchen.

Barn with holes for cats to get in and protect the grain.

   

Deep in the Estonian forest.

Water mill and fire station.

Village shop.

School house.

Bendy trolley bus.

Medieval theme restaurant under the old town hall. (I had some elk soup.)

On the town wall.

The autons go medieval.

St. Olaf’s Church. Once one of the tallest buildings in the world at 125 meters.

View from the top.

Old town, new town.

Last wander around Tallinn.

  

Back at the apartment, it has 2 front doors to keep the cold out.

Tallinn by day.

Outside my flat. (Halfway between the main square and the tourist info.)

The St. Aleksander Nevski Cathedral and the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin.

Tallinn old town.

Estonian Parliament.

Kadrioru Park

Presidents palace and Kadriorg Art Museum (formally Peter the \greats palace in Tallinn).

The song festival grounds.

Ruins of Pirita Convent and the end of the 1980 Olympics sailing centre.

Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin

Old phone box and statues in the Occupation museum.

Kiek in de Kök and the Maidens tower.

Diving suits in the maritime museum.

No idea what was happening.

The seaplane museum.

Icebreaker Suur Töll. The worlds largest steam powered ice breaker.

Very posh for an icebreaker.

The cabin for the captains “assistant”. (Communist party member.)

A recently retired navy patrol boat. (With cd player on deck.)

Inside the Sea plane museum.

The Lembit submarine and a short 184 seaplane.

Inside the Lembit.

Military vehicle display

Last day in Helsinki.

Vatican nightclub!

Helsinki Cathedral.

Boat storage for the winter.

The Rock church.

Sibelius Monument.

 

Japanese tourists with a selfie stick. Their camera is at the end of the stick so they can take pictures of themselves.

The Finnish Parliament building.

Salmon and veg at the market.

Inside the ferry to Tallinn.

Leaving Helsinki.

3 hours later, Tallinn.

My apartment in Tallinn. They upgraded me from a studio to a 1 bed apartment. (Only £40 per night.)

A walk through night time Tallinn.

A morning tram ride around Helsinki.

Kauppahalli – the old market hall.

Selling from the boat.

Taking the ferry to Suomenlinna, the former defensive fort also known as Gibraltar of the north. (Also an UNESCO World Heritage site.)

Landing on the island.

The church tower is also a lighthouse.

The dry dock.

The lock gate flats out when the dry dock is flooded.

A quiet beach.

The kings gate.

The dry dock and the old dock gate.

Back in Helsinki.

The reindeer special. Reindeer sausages, reindeer meatballs and reindeer kebab meat.

They have a lot of tortoise statues about Helsinki. (They’re movable traffic barriers.)

The ships corridor, by my cabin.

Sunrise over the Baltic.

The time in Sweden and Finland.

Approaching Helsinki.

Helsinki.

We won’t fit through that gap.

 

Statues in Esplanadi park.

It’s the Herring fair!

My ferry.

 

Helsinki cathedral.

Finland national museum.

My apartment in Helsinki.

Inside the Nordiska Museum.

A mock up of a late 1940s Swedish apartment.

View from Skansen Open air museum & zoo.

If you lift the roof up it plays a tune.

The museum has a large collection of buildings from around Sweden. This is the Oktorpfarmstead.

Inside the farm house.

Swedish wolves. (In the zoo part.)

 

Rope sheep in the children’s play area

Sloth having lunch.

Lemur feeding time is 1:30pm.

A realistic environment for the primates.

A model of the museum and zoo.

My cabin on the night ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki.

The nightclub and café at the stern of the ship.

The ship pub.

A slightly foggy Stockholm viewed from the ship.

 

We look down on other boats.

The end of the royal canal.

Weaving our way through Stockholm archipelago.

Past a wedding.

Through narrow gaps.

The morning view from my porthole. (Almost as good as the view back home.)

The parliament arches.

The old town and a phone box.

Inside the palace courtyard and the palace from the courtyard.

Changing the guards.

On the tour boat, the Swedish music option is ABBA.

The Royal canal and its toll booth.

The other side of the Saltsjön.

Gamla stan (The Old Town) and the palace.

Overlooking Skeppsholmen and the theme park.

My hotel again.

The city hall (also where they hand out Nobel prizes).

Cirkus (arena) and the Biological museum.

Riddarholmsskeppet in the Medieval Museum, plus more guard changing.

Inside the Royal palace (the rest has photography banned).

Inside the royal armouries, the carriages are in the cellar.

They also compare Erik XIV of Sweden, Elizabeth I of England and er.. King Joffery of the seven kingdoms of Westeros (Game of Thrones, as they have some of the costumes).

The ABBA museum and the Cirkus again.

The Spirt museum run by Absolut vodka.

They have an exhibition on Album art.

The Vasa sailing ship, the Swedish Mary Rose. (Sank on maiden voyage after 1300 meters.)

The Nordiska Museum

Skeppsholmen.

Kungsträdgården metro station.

Solna Centrum metro station.

Fridhemsplan Metro station.

Rådhuset

T-Centralen Metro station.

That’s Oslo visited, now where shall I go?

A last look at Norway from the train.

I was in the restaurant car when we crossed the border. I paid in Norwegian Kronor and got my change in Swedish.

So, Sweden.

The Parliament house.

A bike vandalised by knitters

A womble begging in the street.

The Royal Palace

An out door toilet.

 

Down by the water front.

My hotel in Stockholm. Mälardrottningen Hotel‎

And room / cabin.

The city hall and Riddarholmen Church.

 

Around the back of the royal palace.

Taking a photo of someone taking a photo of someone taking a photo.

The red ship will be my ferry to Helsinki.

The hotel at night.

Day 5 – Oslo

With winter approaching in Oslo, the statue decided to nick the workman’s jacket.

Oslo has a lot of electric cars.

Looking over to museum island and a pavilion in the harbour.

The Fram museum, and the Fram

 

Inside the Fram.

Strengthening beams to stop the ice crushing it.

Gjøa – the first ship to  navigate the northwest passage.

Inside the Norwegian Maritime Museum.

Ra II – an Egyptian style boat that was sailed across the Atlantic.

Kon-Tiki

The Viking ship museum. First Oseberg.

 

Tune

Gokstad

The marina, and the museum ferry. (The little beige one.)

Here it is.

The Astrup Fearnley Museum and the city hall from the ferry.

Holmenkkollen (Ski jump) and its hotel.

Looking up the lift shaft (and down).

Oslo from the top of the ski jump.

Panorama from the top of the Ski jump.

View down the ski jump and Oslo city centre again.

Behind the ski jump.

At the Munch Museum. (You’re not allowed to photograph the Scream, so hears his painting of an Alien autopsy.)