What I did on my summer vacation

Better late than never? Here is the travelogue from my May/June trip with my mother and brother to Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. As a title for this trip, I've compressed Finland and Baltics into "Fintics." Because I have backposted them to May and June, they are at the bottom (rather than top) of my blog, so here are the shortcuts:

• Fintics #1 - Getting there, and time in Helsinki, Finland
• Fintics #2 - Turku, Finland
• Fintics #3 - Oulu, Finland
• Fintics #4 - From Finland, to Talllinn and Haapsalu, Estonia
• Fintics #5: Tartu, Estonia, and some general observations about post-Soviet life
• Fintics #6: From Tartu to Valga (Estonia) to Valka (Latvia) to Riga (Latvia)
• Fintics #7: Riga
• Fintics #8: Sigulda, Gauja National Park, and farewell to Latvia
• Fintics #9: Finland once more, then back home