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Inside a RyanAir plane: cramped, entertainment-free and the staff won't even give you free water.



My first meal in Finland was from this McDonalds in Tampere. Despite it being close to midnight, the light wasn't much darker than it is in this photo.



Aerial view of Tampere's city centre, just a short walk from Elisabet's friend's flat.



The Tammerkoski rapids link the two main lakes in Tampere and generate the city's electricity.



A few of the factories in Tampere's urban centre.



Tampere theatre.



Fun park in Tampere: me, Elisabet and her friend Eve spent most of my first day here.



Jyvaskyla, Elisabet's home town.



Hesburger: more popular than McDonalds in Finland, and rightly so.



The Silja cruise ship from Helsinki to Stockholm.



Stockholm's ugly city centre.



The sombre stone exterior of Helsinki's Central Station.



Food stalls inside the station.


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