Helsinki in a Blink

So headed over to Helsinki, took a nap on the ferry before arriving..it was a 2 hour ride. Got into helsinki and its alot newer than most of the European capitals since it was founded in earnest until the 19th century, but its still cool. They say that the Finns speak with architecture because nobody can understand their language....thats about right. The main street is like 20 letters long, and some of the words look like they just added vowels next to each other for fun. Like Jaanooriaasiinakissii sorta thing but with the letter with 2 dots over them. Its funny, but I was sorta of used to it because it was the same thing in estonia. I took a look around and was starving so I hit up the supermarket, I never eat out anymore because Ive learned the value of a euro goes much further in a supermarket in europe...got some food then got lost then got found then found the hostel i was looking for. More like hotel. Free full buffet breakfast included and the rooms were huge with no bunk beds, my room only had 3 beds in it, so spread out. It was nice. First nite a guy was snoring so I whipped out my complimentary ear plugs all the way back from spain courtesy of Renfe (Spanish Train Company) and slept like a baby. Woke up and saw all the sites, contemplated getting a free bike but they were not surprisingly almost impossible to find so I walked instead. Basically did the whole city in one day, went to the cool church that looks more like a greek temple, went to the FREE money museum..ha the curator was funny, he was so into money and stuff and I was like the only guy in there because tour groups never go to free museums..so i played around looking at the old money and then played a game where you pretend like youre in charge of the interest rates...I had some serious issues with deflation, like money increasing in value...actually worse than deflation..all well. Then I went to the City Museum which talked about the city all the way from the founding to the present with all kinds of artifacts, very cool. Saw another cool church later that was built into like solid granite, so it was kind of underground, but the dome of it has like glass so it was amazing inside. Hmm what else, walked up the waterside to a park with a monument to a famous composer, but cant remember who, it had like all these big metal pipes as a sculpture that resembled a huge organ. Walked back past the cool art museum, the old olympic stadium (there were kids playing soccer so I stopped and watched), the theater, and then back. Met a couple of Belgian guys that gave me the scoop on the belgian beer scene, so I am totally prepared. The next day I checked out some of the citys supposedly famous works of architecture but wasnt impressed and then happened to meet up with a bunch of Basques that I had met in Tallinn totally by accident at the train station when I was getting my Eurail validated. So since they just arrived I sorta gave them a tour a bit and then bid them farewell, very nice guys btw, hadnt met a basque before them, then I went to my cruise ship and got ready to go to stockholm. Holy crap they love their duty free shops.....