Highway to HEL
We arrived in Helsinki around 11 today. Yesterday we managed to miss the ferry. We were waiting in the wrong place, among the wrong group of travelers and when the sign finally came up telling what ferry was leaving from that gate, ours had already left. We were not alone however. A guy from Uruguay and a group of Chinese travelers had made the same mistake. We had to take a later ferry to Turku/Åbo and then the bus to Helsinki. The guy from Uruguay was called Alfredo and we stayed together all the way to Helsinki.
There was no way to get a cabin, so we had to stay somewhere else. Somewhere else, however, was where everyone else were sleeping. I eventually found a corridor outside the sauna club where we spent the last hours of the night.
After arriving in Turku we took the express bus to Helsinki. Yep, we were on the “Highway to HEL”.