Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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After two days in Tallinn and a couple of hours on the ferry across the Gulf of Finland, we arrive in Helsinki.

Over the next two days, we’ll kayak around the archipelago, run around with local restaurateur Luca Balac, stuff our faces with some of the best eats in recent memory, and do a little sauna/swim like the Finns before hopping on the night train to the Arctic Circle where we’ll take on the 82-kiloemter Karhunkierros trail.

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