Alright my friends, it’s time to wrap up my posts about Finland with the next installment of Running Around the World — this time featuring Helsinki! Running in Helsinki When I first discovered I’d be traveling to Finland, I immediately began researching running routes in both Jyväskylä and Helsinki. Lucky for me, both cities are extremely runner friendly! …
While my computer and mobile situations are slowly returning back to normal (damn hackers and thieves), it’s taken a little longer than expected to pull this post together about Helsinki for you — I hope it’s worth the wait! Basically, the long and short of it is this: I loved Helsinki. I mean, look at this view… …
When I submitted an abstract to attend a conference in Jyväskylä, you can be sure I had never heard of it before and definitely couldn’t tell you where in Finland the city was located. I didn’t even know how to pronounce Jyväskylä (yoo-vas-ku-la) until several days before my trip. But that didn’t stop me from being super excited …
In a little over a month, we’ll be visiting Helsinki for an extended weekend! I’ll be in Finland anyway for a conference, so it’s the perfect opportunity to spend time in the city that was named the 2012 World Design Capital. And quite honestly, the more I read (like here, here, and here) about all Helsinki has to offer, …