明天就要出发了，一切基本准备就绪，今天也进行了测试行李打包，一再精简的行李刚好合适，只是激动的心情没能装下。😅
We are leaving tomorrow and everything is basically ready. We carried out a test packing today. Everything fits fine but my excitement 😅 .
到欧洲的第一站是芬兰的首都赫尔辛基，以前并没有特别关注这个城市，只是知道那里是观赏极光的一个好地方，可惜我们去的时间是夏天。简单阅读了关于赫尔辛基的一些历史，这座芬兰最大的城市是瑞典国王古斯塔
The first stop in Europe is Helsinki, the capital of Finland. I had not paid much attention to the city, except that it was a good place to watch the Aurora. Unfortunately it’s in winter.
夫一世建于1550年，当时即命名为赫尔辛基。在其四百六十多年的历史中，赫尔辛基曾经历了战争，瘟疫和饥饿。俄罗斯帝国曾在18世纪初占领赫尔辛基； 19世纪初，瑞典和俄罗斯帝国的战争，使芬兰作为自治大公国被并入俄罗斯，赫尔辛基开始稍有发展；1917年芬兰独立，内战又立即爆发；直到1944年，赫尔辛基还经历了一次庞大的苏联空中轰炸。尽管直到前半个20世纪，赫尔辛基还在经历纷乱的战争，她始终继续发展。到90年代，赫尔辛基都会区是当时欧盟内发展最快的城市中心之一。2017年，赫尔辛基被经济学人智库评为世界上最适宜居住的10大城市的第二位。
Briefly reading some of the history of Helsinki, I learned that it is the largest city in Finland and was founded in 1550 by the King of Sweden Gustave. It was initially named Helsinki. In its more than 460-year history, Helsinki has endured wars, plagues and starvation. The Russian Empire occupied Helsinki in early 18th century; in early 19th century, the war between Sweden and the Russian Empire brought Finland into Russia as an Autonomous Grand Duchy, and Helsinki began to develop; In 1917 Finland became independent and the civil War erupted immediately; In 1944, Helsinki experienced a massive Soviet aerial bombardment. Despite the tumultuous war that had been going on in Helsinki even in the first half of the 20th century, it continued to develop. By the 90’s, the Helsinki metropolitan area was one of the fastest-growing urban centers in the EU. In 2017, Helsinki was ranked second in the world’s ten most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
我的家乡是中国的东北地区，那里的气候比较寒冷，赫尔辛基比我的家乡还要再向北纬16度多，那里6月份的平均气温是19摄氏度，凉爽的夏季旅游真是会很舒服 🙂 我们在那里的时候早上4点太阳就会升起，直到晚上将近11点又才会下山，日照时间长达将近19个小时，好期待那种独特的体验。
My hometown is the northeast of China, where the climate is relatively cold. Helsinki is 16 latitude degrees north of my hometown, where the average temperature in June is 19 degrees Celsius. Cool summer travel will be really comfortable 🙂! when we are there, the sun rises at 4 in the morning, and it will not set until nearly 11 at night. The sunshine lasts nearly 19 hours! I am really looking forward to that unique experience.
据说赫尔辛基的自来水的质量非常好，来自派延奈湖（Päijänne Lake），供应赫尔辛基一百万多人口的饮用水，输水隧道长达120千米，是世界上仅次于纽约特拉华隧道第二长的，不过中国正在建的要把水引到新疆的云南隧道会长达600千米，将会盖过纽约和赫尔辛基的隧道成为世界第一长。
I read that the quality of tap water in Helsinki is very good. It’s from Lake Päijänne, which supplies more than 1 million people in Helsinki with drinking water and the 120-kilometer water tunnel is the second longest in the world after New York’s Delaware Tunnel. But the Yunnan tunnel, which China is building to bring water to Xinjiang, will be 600-kilometer and will become the longest in the world surpassing the New York and Helsinki tunnels.
当然第一次去，难免要去那些赫尔辛基的知名景点，我不觉羞愧，非常期待，比如芬兰城堡，岩石教堂，赫尔辛基大教堂，波罗的海的女儿雕像，西贝柳斯公园等等。
Obviously, it is inevitable that we will go to those well-known attractions in Helsinki, since it will be our first time there. I do not feel ashamed, instead I am looking forward to it- the Finnish castle, Rock Church, Helsinki Cathedral, the Daughter Statue of the Baltic Sea, Sibelius Park and so on.
了解我的人都知道当地美食是我旅行的最宗爱的部分，虽然目前我还是最爱亚洲菜，这次的旅行希望能大开我的口界，让我爱上西方菜。芬兰国家旅游局官方网站上写到芬兰十大经典美食： 卡累利阿派，鱼馅饼，烤肉肠， 黑麦面包， 肉桂卷， 蓝莓派， 鲱鱼和新土豆， 小龙虾， 炒鹿肉， 面包奶酪。我都要尝试啊！！！！! （对不起，失态了，鹿肉还是算了吧。😌）
People who know me know that trying local food is my favorite part of traveling. Although I only love Asian food so far, I hope to expand my taste level and let me fall in love with Western cuisines. The official Travel Guild of Finland lists the Iconic Finnish Foods Of All Time: Karelian pies, Kalakukko (baked inside a loaf of bread), Grillimakkara (Sausage), Rye bread, cinnamon buns, Blueberry pie, New potatoes with fish roe, Crayfish, Sautéed reindeer, cheese bread. ( I want to try them all !!!!! Sorry, I lost my manners, but probably not the reindeer and cheese bread 😌)
奇妙的赫尔辛基，周三见！ 🙋Helsinki, see you on Wednesday! 🙋
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