Sunday, January 5, 2014

2014-5 : Finland - Porvoo -an Old town off 55 km

Christmas time is dead town in Helsinki.  Decided to rent a car to drive to an old town NE of city called Porvoo (Pronounced as POR-RE-VOO) ..
FIRST TIME...driving a MANUAL left hand drive diesel Volvo
FIRST TIME...GPS died on us within 10min of rental car pick up
(Quite ex...E180 for 2 days :(....)

 An old town - mainly wooden buildings and lots of cobblestoned streets....






 A glimpse of the property prices in this PORVO area...................................................




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