Eating Out
Food is consistently good. The favorite bar snack is a black sausage with a hard bread, accompanied by a hearty beer. Major hotels have a variety of international cuisine; the only casino in Finland is in the Ramada Presidentti Hotel located in downtown Helsinki, next to the Parliament House. Any of this hotel’s four [...]

Tour Operators
Sightseeing tours by bus, of the city and surrounding points of interest, are available year round. Tours from an hour to all day are available and the buses make pickups at your hotel. During the summer months, a waterbus tour of the Helsinki shoreline operates about once an hour from the Market Square from [...]

I doubt you will find as many museums anywhere else in the world; following is a partial listing of museums available in the Helsinki area. Most are open during normal working hours all year round; some have guided tours. Fees, if any, are reasonable, and exhibits are excellent. The Finns are proud of their art, [...]

TOPKAPI PALACE
When Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror took
Istanbul in 1453, he first ordered the
construction of a new palace for this new
Ottoman capital, on a site in the district of
Beyazit where Istanbul University stands
today. But before long, he changed his mind
and had a number of buildings constructed
on the headland to the southeast. This was
to become the palace [...]