In Conclusion
Well as ever it was a great holiday and not as tiring as the America tour last year. I was fortunate in having been to most of the Scandinavian parks before and so could just enjoy them more this time...
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Day 20 - Tivoli and Copenhagen
The last day and it was only right to spend it at Tivoli although a group of us also decided to venture into the city on an unofficial tour from Jeppe.If you're looking at this galleon on the lake and...
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Day 19 - Bakken & Tivoli
Bakken, North of Copenhagen is officially the oldest theme park with history going back as far as 1583, which would have been the oldest thing on this trip had Keith not come along, actually Turku...
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Day 18 - Djurs Sommerland, Tivoli Friheden, Bonbon Land & Tivoli
On these trips there is always one day that gets labeled "the day from hell", and this had the potential to be it for this trip. Typically any day where you were visiting two parks in any 24 hour...
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Day 17 - Ferry, Faarup Sommerland & Tivoliland
It was time to leave Sweden and travel south to Denmark for the final leg of the trip. We had another ferry crossing, but a much shorter one this time, around 3 hours in all.Like RyanAir the ferry...
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Day 16 - Liseberg & Gothenburg
Having said goodbye to Tusenfryd and Norway we got to the next hotel quite late so went straight to bed. This is the following morning when it was time to visit Liseberg.This is the hotel, the totally...
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Day 15 - Tusenfryd
In the morning we left Karlstad and continued west into Norway for Tusenfryd, which was the only Norwegian park on the trip. Located up a mountain south of Oslo it's a pretty decent, if steep park....
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Day 14 - Gronalund and Parken Zoo
Having survived the overnight Ferry crossing, and surprisingly having got some sleep, we arrived in Stockholm and after a short journey (you can see the park from the ferry terminal) found ourselves at...
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Day 13 - Sarkanniemi and Ferry to Stockholm
Our last day in Tampere so what better way to spend it than back at Sarkanniemi.As well as being a great coaster Tornado also has the brightest coloured trains ever!Mattius!!!!!The ride has two of...
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Day 12 - Lauri's Park & Sarkanniemi
Day 12 had us headed off to a park with a difference. Lauri is a club member who decided to build his own park and has been spending the last few years putting it altogether. This was a park in its...
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Day 11 - Power Park
Powerpark would mark the furthest north I'd ever been and a new park for me, as it wasn't on the tour the last time the club traveled Scandinavia.Linnanmaki was built to serve the local children....
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Day 10 - Linnanmaki & Tampere
In the morning it was time to say goodbye to the hotel and make our way over to the airport to greet the majority of the club coming over from the UK.Bye bye hotel!We decided to make good use of the...
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Day 9 - Helsinki
The day in Helsinki was going to be spent sightseeing around the city and all being well ending the day at Linnanmaki, the main amusement park in the city. I had been to Helsinki with the club before...
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Day 8 - Tallinn and Ferry to Helsinki
On our final day in Tallinn, Keith decided to rest so I dragged Jeppe to the Kadriorg palace, a short tram ride east of the old town.These are some of the grounds leading towards the palace.and this is...
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Day 7 - Tallinn
The first full day in Tallinn was spent walking around the old town. There was no need to visit the park here as it had been closed for sometime according to Team Valt. So instead of searching for...
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Day 6 - St Petersburg and Coach to Tallinn
Our final day in Russia was spent in an extremely chilled manner, we only had the morning in the city as at midday we were to get to the main coach station to catch a bus to Tallinn.We actually ended...
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Day 5 - St Petersburg
Having done quite a bit of walking the day before we decided to take things a bit easier today and make the full use of the metro tokens we'd purchased. The plan was to initially do all the walking for...
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Day 4 - St Petersburg
The train pulled into St Petersburg station at exactly 8am, just as the ticket told us it would. You can't fault the punctuality, and I was wondering if the emergency stop was because the train was...
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Day 3 - Moscow and train to St. Petersburg
The second full day in Moscow was primarily for more sight-seeing, but we were able to squeeze another couple of parks in.The morning started with a tour of the Metro system. Yes, that's right we went...
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Day 2 - Moscow
The first proper day in Moscow had us visiting Gorky Park and the Red Square. To get to either we had to figure out the Metro, which to be honest was very straight forward.We bought a 10 trip pass, and...
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