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Saturday, 6 October, 2018 – Weather – not too bad
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After a poor night’s sleep on the retro bed, I am moving a bit slowly this morning. Eventually, we get moving. We are going to markets down by the harbour. We board a tram and discover that (1) it is going the wrong way and (2) you can no longer buy tram tickets on a tram. So we walk back a ways and find a place where we can buy tickets. It is an automated machine with instructions all in Finnish but eventually we work it out.

We walk by this museum with the giant “protector”
Our Tram, note that there are doors only on one side
Boarding the Tram behind an old lady

We arrive at the shore and get off one stop earlier than Julie had planned. There is an outdoor market.

A lady selling fish, mostly salmon, from her boat
Other market goodies – note the succotash on the right
Vegies
Lots of variety of game
We went across the way to an old church which is now an indoor food hall
Julie perusing the food stalls
A variety of food stuffs
and more
Sweet Stuff
A variety of (expensive) Reindeer products
I wonder what a Reindeer Moose pie would have been like?
I got s reindeer sausage with salad, very gamey, very nice
Julie’s Salmon Soup, not nice “I should have bought the more expensive one”
Canned game
Reindeer Chips at 9 euro very expensive

We jump on the tram to return toward the apartment. There is a Michelin rated Asian restaurant very close to the house. Julie tries to get a booking but it is Saturday night and booked out plus they are closed Sunday and Monday and we leave on Tuesday so we miss out.

Shortly after we arrive in the apartment Julie goes out again to do more exploring.

Ryan and I have another beer tasting

A message from Julie arrives “We have a booking at Ravintola Lasipalatsi for 6.15pm”

It is one tram stop away and it was next to the one with the long queues this morning. Address is: Mannerheimintie 22-24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Julie outside the restaurant which turned out to be a bit upmarket
Waiting for a table, service was quite slow throughout the night
Finally, at the table
It is a long restaurant and eventually fills up
Drinks, Tanika has a special Gin and Tonic
Lightly salted salmon with creamed chanterelles and dill potatoes for Julie
Cream of crayfish with crayfish and fennel salsa for me
Ryan’s Choice Beef tartare with anchovy mayonnaise and parmesan
Marinated feta cheese with tapenade and sourdough bread croutons for Tanika
Fillet of reindeer served with cherry and cepp bake and dark onion broth for my main course
The Girls and Ryan had fillet of pike perch with creamed button mushrooms and butter braised horseradish and thought it was great

As I mentioned at the start, it was quite a posh place which meant probably the most expensive meal of the trip so far. However, I think it was worth it given the exotic foods that we had. After that, we returned home and crashed.

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