My Trip to Turku

On Tues­day three of my class­mates and I went on a day trip to Turku. We met up at the Loimaa Train­sta­tion at around 10 am and took the next train for half an hour. We already planned what we want­ed to do the day before and we hoped that we could man­age every­thing in time, as we only had five hours.

First we want­ed to go to an art muse­um, which was 30 min­utes away from the train sta­tion. On the way there we came across some beau­ti­ful build­ings and streets. Once we arrived at the art muse­um, we did­n’t find the entrance at first, so we walked around the build­ing until we found it. Inside were mul­ti­ple art­works, all with the over­all top­ic of ‘war’. There were three rooms with mul­ti­ple art­works on dis­play to look at and every­thing was also made out of recy­cled mate­ri­als. We spent almost an hour in there, tak­ing pho­tos and look­ing at every­thing with fas­ci­na­tion.

After­wards we want­ed to go to a sci­ence muse­um which was 40 min­utes away from the art muse­um. We acci­den­tal­ly took a few wrong turns because we did­n’t have the right address, but due to that we saw ‘Posank­ka’ and more beau­ti­ful build­ings and church­es. Sad­ly we could­n’t fig­ure out where the muse­um was so we had to cross that off the list.

We then want­ed to go to a cat cafe, which we found by coin­ci­dence on google maps. It was again anoth­er 40 minute walk there, so we stopped at a super­mar­ket and got some­thing to eat and drink. After a quick pause we con­tin­ued and walked beside the riv­er. The cafe had four cats in total and they were all play­ing around when we came in. We sat down and ordered a choco­late mousse and a cof­fee which had a cat face print­ed on top and we spent around an hour in there just talk­ing and pet­ting the cats.

We then arrived at the train sta­tion at 4 pm after try­ing to find the entrance again for a good 5 min­utes. Final­ly we got on the train and almost fell asleep after walk­ing through the entire city. Half an hour lat­er we arrived back in Loimaa and went our sep­a­rate ways.

Turku was tru­ly beau­ti­ful, with lots of things to do and amaz­ing peo­ple. In case I’ll ever be back in Fin­land, I am def­i­nite­ly going to vis­it Turku again.