Dubai to Helsinki

We only had a couple of hours in transit in Dubai so by the time we got through immigration and found the gate for our next flight to Heathrow it was nearly boarding time. It was nice to have a daytime flight to see the different terrain from the dessert of Africa to the lush pastures of Europe. The flight was 7 hours long and we arrived at Heathrow about 30 minutes late but not concerned as we had about 4 hours in transit ahead of us. After all the immigration stuff we grabbed a beer and settled down to wait for our Finnair flight to Helsinki.
The flight to Helsinki was a probably nearly a step too far. We were in economy in very small and uncomfortable seats and both pretty tired. However on arrival at the beautiful new airport we zipped through immigration and picked up our bags which had somehow arrived without us having seen them since Auckland and were out to be met by our transfer guy in his nice new Mercedes EV. Half an hour later we were in the hotel and ready for a shower and a good night's sleep. It was still light at 10 pm and I did wonder briefly whether there might be some Aurora action as the sky was clear but parked that thought pretty quickly in favour of sleep.Read more