Finland cont.

To post all of our favorite pictures of Finland would take up too much space, and quite frankly, bore you, so here are some (still a lot) different views of Finland. On the street in Porvoo (about an hour NW of Helsinki). . . 

A church from the 14th century in Porvoo . . . 
Looking from the church out the front gate, down the hill and off into the forest . . . 
Esplanade in downtown Helsinki . . . 
The lake behind Jarna and Timos flat. Finland is known as the Land of Many Lakes. . . 
A pretty typical street in Vantaa, the city outside of Helsinki that we lived in . . .
In front of the Helsinki temple . . .
View of Tampere from a tower and one of the highest points in Finland (FYI 69% of Finland is forest). . . 
On top of the tower with the view behind us . . . 
Heather growing outside a shop window . . . 
A pretty front door to a house . . . 
The heather growing outside Mikko's house . . . 
Hamenlinna castle (taken from a speeding train window) . . . 
Another scene from Porvoo . . .