Happy New Year, Conwegians! We thought we’d return to our Conway food-review efforts with, what else?, a wrap up of the restaurants we sampled on a recent wintry visit to Helsinki. Levain Helsinki Runeberginkatu 29 She Said: We landed in Helsinki before we could check into our AirBnb (without our luggage, which decided it wanted a… Continue reading He Said and She Said Explore Finland–In November
Matthew Arnold’s “Memorial Verses 1850”
Henry Vaughan’s “The World”
Exploring Helsinki
We visited Helsinki in November because, you know, why not? We saw a remarkably low airfare advertised, and decided to see what Finland was like. We hoped maybe to get a glimpse of the Northern Lights. That didn’t pan out, since it was cloudy and snowed nearly every day. But Helsinki knows what to do… Continue reading Exploring Helsinki
Astonished in Estonia
Estonia is the smallest of the Baltic countries, and its population of about 1.3 million people makes it one of the least populous of all the countries in the European Union. The capital city of Tallinn has a population of about 450,000, about the size of the greater Des Moines area. Small population or no,… Continue reading Astonished in Estonia
Simon Armitage’s “A Floral Tribute”
Beautiful Riga
Riga is the capital of the Baltic nation of Latvia. With a population of 625,000, it is the size of Memphis. But it’s a special place unlike any you’ve ever been before. In the first place, the city boasts some 800 buildings in the Art Nouveau (or as the Germans called it, Jugendstil) style of… Continue reading Beautiful Riga
