I visit this beautiful city quite often -mostly with motorcycle. There are nice cafeterias and restaurants by the river & on the boats that are floating on the river. This time we drove there by car and it was beautiful sunny day!
Porvoo riverside
Porvoo is the third oldest city in Finland (or second oldest depending how to count) and it’s only 30 minutes drive from Helsinki. With motorcycle it takes longer because there are nice roads on the way!
The day started with a beautiful sunrise from hotel window!
Hotel Ibis
And because my GPS had a function to make “Interesting adventure” I decided to choose this. And we started riding north…
Water tower in Kcynia
And even I had the marker “No gravelroads” in my GPS it gave us this:
Actually very nice part of this days ride!
We found very nice place to stay from the guesthouse just outside the centrum. We left the stuff there and took a ride to one of the most amazing beaches in Europe (or at least in Baltic sea).
Sandbeach between Gdansk and Gdynia
Then we spent quite a long time walking around the city. It was sunday afternoon and there was totally too much people!! But we survived…
(Click any of the pictures to make them bigger) The old town of Gdansk is very beautiful! The area is huge and you can easily get lost there… But the buildings are very nice and the river that goes through the city gives it a little bit more spirit! The 312km’s route for this day was like this: