Bad Knees Travel

Some of the finest moments come from out of the blue.  This bit of maritime adventure came because European trains are baffling. As I go back thru my  photos, I realize that so much of what I look at are the weird details. But Finland is a different kind of place.  It is a new place, built on the bones of Scandinavian history. And to understand it one needs to look at the details.  As usual, Blogger has decided that the order and placement of the photos should be different from my wishes. I hope you will enlarge some of them.  Like the photo above.  Look at the different granites used in the stones.      Departure I needed to get from Bosch, Netherlands to Helsinki Finland.  I had thought I would take the train. I love trains.  But 4 nights, 6 train changes all in the middle of the night, and figuring out the train pass system were just beyond my coping.  So I looked at the next best thing, a ferry. That is how I ended up ...