Today would be my last chance to visit Helsinki, and so I made sure I was awake nice and early. Weatherwise, it was bitterly cold but not snowing, and even though I was struggling to walk when I got out of bed, I wasn’t going to let that stop me. After all, Scott of the Antarctic and Roald Amundsen didn’t have the luxury of being able to jump back into bed now did they?

After getting organized I arranged for a taxi to drop me off at Terminal D down at the port. I got there at 6.40, in time to buy a cut-price day return ticket, which at 406 Estonian Crowns (€23) was at least €40 cheaper than the travel agent wanted me to buy them for the other day. Within no time at all we were all boarding the ferry and on our way out of the iced-up harbour towards Helsinki.

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Originally posted 2025-01-15 16:05:04.