Just a simple, easy to do list for 2 days in Helsinki.

Day 1

• Helsinki Cathedral, Central Station, Sibelius Monument, food at Market Square
• Kamppi Chapel, a modern egg-like architectural award winner
• Pohjola Insurance Building with mythological architectural details
• Suomenlinna Fortress
• Temppeliaukion Church – modern church built in to rock

Day 2

• Day trip from Helsinki to Porvoo, a medieval town with distinctive red houses by a river

Finnish foods to try:

• Mustamakkara (blood sausage with lingonberries)
• Smoked reindeer
• Poronkaristys (sauteed reindeer)
• Valkosipuli (onion soup), Lohikeitto (creamy salmon soup)
• Leipajuusto, Lapland bread cheese
• Vorschmack (salty minced meat)
• Mammi (rye porride dessert)
• Sea buckthorn (a type of berry)
• Karjalanpiirakka, a pastry