Easy Day August 1, 2006
Still in Helsinki and in need of some personal maintenance my lovely bride and I did not plan anything for today with the exception of visiting the Finland National Museum.
I’ve been having a little problem with my right knee that I managed to injure while we were hiking in Indonesia earlier this year. All of the hiking and walking plus carrying the heavy packs seem to have aggravated that injury. I decided to try and find a doctor today to hopefully get reassurance that I am doing no further damage and some relief from the swelling. A stop at the hotel desk netted us a recommendation and directions to a clinic. We found it only to be told that they were remodeling, had limited rooms and limited doctors with most being on vacation, it would be Thursday before they could see me. They also do not refer patients to other doctors. I’ll wait until we get to Stockholm in a couple of days as we plan on staying there for several days for sightseeing, planning the northern Sweden / Norway expedition and a much needed rest. You read right, a much needed rest. While invigorating, the touring we are doing is both mentally and physically tiring and we have been at it for almost two months now.
With no luck at the doctor we turned our attention to other matters. We both needed haircuts so we found a small shop and I was immediately shown a chair and with sign language and a few common words the lady proceeded with my coiffure. I think Holly let me go first as a test, a guinea pig so to speak. While I was getting my cut another customer came in that seemed to have an appointment so Holly was going to have to wait for about an hour. As we were leaving Holly said “that worked out OK as I didn’t trust her to do my hair because I couldn’t tell her what to do”. We immediately found another place and Holly made an appointment for 3PM.
This gave us a few hours to go to the National Museum which was a ten minute walk from the salon. The museum laid out the history of Finland from the Stone Age until the twentieth century with numerous exhibits including archeological finds dating back eight thousand years. We managed to browse away three hours after which we returned and Holly got her hair cut.
Well needless to say we both are now both beautiful with our blonde silky hair and Euro cuts.
One other note if you’re ever in Helsinki be sure to mail something from the main post office. Its modern efficient and staffed by friendly helpful people, in other words everything that the Moscow post office wasn’t. It even had a café. Now this a post office that you can spend some time in.
I’ve been having a little problem with my right knee that I managed to injure while we were hiking in Indonesia earlier this year. All of the hiking and walking plus carrying the heavy packs seem to have aggravated that injury. I decided to try and find a doctor today to hopefully get reassurance that I am doing no further damage and some relief from the swelling. A stop at the hotel desk netted us a recommendation and directions to a clinic. We found it only to be told that they were remodeling, had limited rooms and limited doctors with most being on vacation, it would be Thursday before they could see me. They also do not refer patients to other doctors. I’ll wait until we get to Stockholm in a couple of days as we plan on staying there for several days for sightseeing, planning the northern Sweden / Norway expedition and a much needed rest. You read right, a much needed rest. While invigorating, the touring we are doing is both mentally and physically tiring and we have been at it for almost two months now.
With no luck at the doctor we turned our attention to other matters. We both needed haircuts so we found a small shop and I was immediately shown a chair and with sign language and a few common words the lady proceeded with my coiffure. I think Holly let me go first as a test, a guinea pig so to speak. While I was getting my cut another customer came in that seemed to have an appointment so Holly was going to have to wait for about an hour. As we were leaving Holly said “that worked out OK as I didn’t trust her to do my hair because I couldn’t tell her what to do”. We immediately found another place and Holly made an appointment for 3PM.
This gave us a few hours to go to the National Museum which was a ten minute walk from the salon. The museum laid out the history of Finland from the Stone Age until the twentieth century with numerous exhibits including archeological finds dating back eight thousand years. We managed to browse away three hours after which we returned and Holly got her hair cut.
Well needless to say we both are now both beautiful with our blonde silky hair and Euro cuts.
One other note if you’re ever in Helsinki be sure to mail something from the main post office. Its modern efficient and staffed by friendly helpful people, in other words everything that the Moscow post office wasn’t. It even had a café. Now this a post office that you can spend some time in.
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