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.)