In the autumn of 2010, I had the opportunity to make a small trip, flying to Girona and then going by train. I went all the way up to Carcassonne, stopping by in different towns including Narbonne, where I needed to switch trains. I took the opportunity to walk around this former prosperous port located in the department of Aude. I'm always fascinated by gargoyles in European cathedrals, but the ones in Narbonne were particularly spooky, so I took a picture of one of them.

Last year when I was visiting Finland, I went to the tourist office to ask some information about an island nearby Helsinki, but then the guy in front of me began to ask questions about how to get to Tallinn by Ferry... and to make the story short, the next morning I was early at the port buying a return ticket to Tallinn, Estonia. This was the first time I visited one of the Baltic republics and I loved it. Tallinn is a very beautiful city with a nice park, a very well-preserved city center, and some interesting museums. I took this picture when I was getting to Tallinn by Ferry. You can see from the boat the city center on the right of the picture. It's very close so you can walk there.

It has been almost 4 years since I visited Finland, and one of the best souvenirs I have from that trip was the day trip I made to Suomenlinna on a nice summer day. It's a very interesting place; according to wikitravel, "Gibraltar of the North was once the greatest sea fortress in the Baltic, built by the Swedish in the mid-1700s." You can take a boat that will bring you to this place, enjoy the day, and then come back to Helsinki. Totally worth it!

I have heard some positive comments about Oslo, but I have to confess this city was not in the list of the European places I wanted to visit first. Nevertheless, in June 2010, I found some ridiculously unexpensive flight tickets, so I decided to visit Oslo. The weather on that weekend was sunny, and one of the spots I enjoyed the most was visiting Frogner Park, where there were plenty of people walking around, playing, and taking a sun bath. I walked all the way to the end of the park, and when I arrived there, I took the picture you can see here... By the way, if you hear rumors about Oslo being expensive, it's not true... it's superexpensive!!!

In this first weekend of June I decided to go to Scandinavia for the first time. I had to get up early, and when I went to take the bus to the airport, I saw this nice sunrise on the Sandymount beach.

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