After another week in Helsinki, I leave for home tomorrow. We woke up to temperatures around -16C (3 F) this morning. We had a light snow almost continuously all day but the accumulation was still less than a couple of inches. The picture below is the hotel parking lot. As you can see, some of the cars haven't moved in a long time as there are several inches of snow on top of them. Where they have cleared the snow the piles of snow are well over six feet tall.
We have eaten really well while here, maybe too well. Wednesday night we went to a recreation park and rented skis for some cross-country skiing. I made it around their 1 km track about 4 times, although at an extremely slow pace.
After skiing we went out for dinner. Thursday night we went out for dinner again at a Russian restaurant in downtown Helsinki. The food was excellent and the restaurant was unlike any I have ever seen before. The inside was small rooms with beautiful art work on every wall of different scenes from Russia. I had Chicken Kiev. Several of the guys in our party went for "Ivan's Sword" which was literally a large sword/skewer with beef, lamb, and bacon on it. The presentation was every bit as impressive as the food tasted. I am will need to faste for two weeks after I get back to Texas.
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