Interesting fact – Helsinki is the second most northern city in the world.
And it is just a lovely place to go for the weekend. Partly this is because you don’t wake up on your first morning with an enormous list of must do, better do and well… if I have time will do. But also it is a quiet city with trams and the most enormous, delicious pastries ever. 
The other win with Helsinki is the water. One of the down sides about living in London is the sense of being land locked. So, it is heaven to go to a city where the sea laps at its edges. Where boats sit in the port and you can catch the ferry to the islands just off the coast.
It was a lovely weekend and mad this week just gone survivable!
I love Helsinki too. I will be there again next week. On my blog http://bagnidilucca.wordpress.com in the category Helsinki are several posts with pictures of Helsinki in winter and spring. I love the Art Nouveau buildings – and the pastries.
Thanks – it is a lovely city!