We took a car ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki and spent a few days there -- unfortunately, not enough! I wasn't expecting to like Helsinki as much as I did, although I've always wanted to visit Finland. But it was a vibrant and enchanting place, and it's on my list of places to go back to, especially since I missed a museum on Finnish design as well as their design district. There just wasn't enough time to do everything we wanted. It really is a water city -- there are boats and watercraft everywhere you go, and from the number of small boats we saw, it's a city that enjoys its water as well. We stayed at a beautiful hotel that used to be a prison. It had been artfully converted into an upscale hotel but with a lot of the signs of the prison left intact. Lucky for me, the hotel was located in Helsinki's Art Nouveau district; I'm afraid that's most of what I photographed while there ;-).