The Times sees Helsinki as one of Europe's "best romantic city breaks"

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Some Finnish net-users may have rubbed their eyes and scrubbed the screen a bit at reading in the Times Online that Helsinki was listed as a decent alternative to Paris as a destination for a romantic weekend break.
      The newspaper's travel magazine for February lists half a dozen romantic city break choices for those who think Paris is a bit, well, "we've done that", and Helsinki features as "The Tasty One", suggesting that the Finnish capital is "rapidly establishing Nordic cooking on the global gastro-map".
     
Clearly the reviewer did not visit in February, as he or she makes a comparison with Rome "as you idle over coffee at pavement cafes".
      Helsinki is full of surprises, says The Times, and the most romantic dining-place is Savoy, overlooking the Esplanade.
      Design Forum, the outlet maintained by the Finnish Society for Crafts and Design, is described as a place to shop for "sexy stuff", which will doubtless delight them.
     
Helsinki is in good company: the other five places listed are Brussels, Biarritz, Sevilla, Fez in Morocco, and Siena.
      We link the story below for your delectation - and for those who are not on an expense account.
     


Links:
  Times Online: Six of the best romantic city breaks
  Another Helsinki eulogy, this time in the New York Times

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