We weren't in too much of a rush to get out of the extremely comfy bed in the morning and were lucky to catch breakfast before it closed. Breakfast was served in the atmospheric Loiste Restaurant on the 10th floor; it was enormous and had the most awesome selection of food. There was proper coffee for starters, juices, cereals, breads, pastries, fruit, a cold selection with herring, meats and cheeses plus a hot selection with eggs, bacon, porridge and sausage. We should have realised that there would be an extravagant spread at breakfast; this was Finland after all and a pretty fancy hotel at that.

The staff were kind to us and didn’t kick us out at 11am, they gave us time to go back a few more times to sample a bit more of the fantastic food. We eventually admitted to ourselves that we couldn’t eat any more even if we wanted to.

On the way back to our room we went for a walk round the expansive rooftop terraces that gave us great views across the city.

We didn’t have much planned for today apart from having dinner at the Güven’s before going to the airport. Walking the streets, in the freezing cold, for the afternoon wouldn’t be much fun so David spoke with the hotel reception and managed to negotiate a late checkout without any additional charge. We had the room until 2pm which was handy because after all we’d eaten at the breakfast, all we wanted to do was just slump on the bed and watch television.

Shortly before 2pm, we checked out and left our bag in the secure luggage store at the hotel. We had worked out how to kill a few hours in the city and stay warm at the same time. The cinema. We had been trying to see The Hunger Games since it had came out last year, and a cinema a short walk across the square was showing it. Result!

The film was good and length of the screening was perfect. After the movie finished, we went back to the hotel to pick up our bag and then took the train to Sari and Ömer’s for dinner. Apart from getting the name of the station wrong when buying the ticket (which would have cost four times as much to go to the wrong station), it was a quick and uneventful journey. The walk in snow with the wheelie suitcase from the station to the apartment wasn’t as quick and uneventful, it was slow going and we were slipping and sliding around everywhere.

The table was set and dinner was ready when we arrived. Ömer had made some, well, actually heaps of, delicious Turkish kebabs on the barbeque. With a fresh salad, bread and a glass of good red wine, it was perfect.

There wasn’t a great rush to get to the airport even if it was an international flight. We had pretty much completed the check in process yesterday morning. We had our boarding cards and three of the four bags were already checked in and we had the luggage tag for the final bag in hand, it just needed to go to the fast bag drop. So we sat back and enjoyed some more wine and beer.

A couple of hours before our flight was due to depart, Sari drove us to the airport. She came in with us to make sure that David’s snowboard bag had been taken out of the oversized luggage store and put on the flight. It had. We dropped our suitcase off, said our goodbyes to Sari and then headed through the security. Our time in Finland was rapidly coming to an end.

Despite leaving it so late to travel to the airport, we still had time for a quick look around the few shops that were open. The airport’s duty free zone was having a huge makeover and was boarded up so only a few of the smaller shops in the walkways and by the gates were open. We did have time for a last beer, or at least David made time to have a last beer. There wasn’t a bar as such but the sushi bar sold beer without food. We ended up talking to the chef and instead of being Japanese, as you might expect, he was actually from Ecuador so we had a good chat about his home country and our trip there.

The flight was called and we made our way onto the plane. Goodbye Finland, next stop Singapore.