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As my parents and siblings visit to Finland is coming closer, options like car hire is racking my mind, hence this post. If you need a car hire for your vacation trip, here’s some useful information for you to consider.

Argus Car Hire.com offers you the cheapest car hire rates in Europe and rest of the world coz every time you search online to find the best quote, Argus Car Hire hunts from over 450 car rental suppliers in over 12,000 locations across the world to find the best value prices so you don’t have to. You can book their car hire quickly, securely and easily with these 3 steps: quote, book, confirm, and you are minutes away from getting the cheapest car hire for your vacation trip.

The website is user friendly and a search is easily done. I did try searching for a 12 passenger van, pick-up at Helsinki downtown and drop off at Pori but there is no car available that matched my search criteria. I was advised to amend my search details to get availability. Anyway, your car needs might be different than mine.

So what benefits can you get from this company? They offer their customers collision damage and vehicle theft waiver, premium location/airport fee, book now pay on arrival, unlimited mileage, breakdown assist, lowest price guarantee, online support, and more. If you are interested to know more about their car rental conditions as well as the explanations of each condition, a visit to their website is worthwhile coz these conditions vary from country to country. If you want to know the locations covered by Argus Car Hire, they cover worldwide but you can check their website for the particular location you require. So the most logical thing to do is visit Argus Car Hire.com.

Argus Car Hire
Argus House, 59 Terenure Road East
Rathgar, Dublin 6, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 4999 601 (International Number)
Email: you may contact their online support
Website: www.arguscarhire.com

Turku, aside from being the oldest city in Finland, can also be described as a city with five bridges along the Aura River. Why is this so? Because as it is located on the river banks of Aura River (Aurajoki), its land stretches on both sides of the river, hence, as you take a walk along the banks of Aurajoki in downtown Turku you can see five bridges connecting the eastern and western side of Turku. The eastern side is popularly referred as “this side of the river” whilst the western side as “the other side of the river”.

Let me take you to a walk along Aura River. Our stroll starts on “this side of the river”, the eastern side of the Tuomiokirkkosilta (Cathedral Bridge) where the Turku Cathedral, Sibelius Museum and Ett Hem Cultural Museum are located. On this side of the river, we can also see the Great Old Square and the Brinkkala Mansion where the Christmas Peace declaration is read annually. As we reach the next block, we will find the Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova, which is a museum about old Turku. As we continue our stroll, the next bridge we will pass by is the Aurasilta (Aura Bridge), where we can see the Paavo Nurmi sculpture done by artist Wäinö Aaltonen. Up ahead is the Teatterisilta (Teatteri Bridge) with the Turku City Theatre beside it. Next is the Myllysilta (Mylly Bridge) where Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art is situated. The last bridge is the Martinsilta (Martin Bridge) where we can see a lot of ships and sailboats. This indicates that it’s now the sea that stretches ahead. From here we can take a free ride to ‘the other side of the river’ in one of Turku’s familiar attractions, the river ferry, Föri.

a Föri carrying pedestrians and bicycles across the Aura River © Wikipedia.org

If we start our stroll on “the other side of the river” from the Cathedral Bridge towards Martinsilta, we will pass by the Main Library, the Pharmacy Museum with the Tourist Information beside it, the Forum Marinum, and the Turku Castle. Restaurants and cafes are on this side too. You can dine at Aurora, famous for its steak, or Sergio’s, for Italian food, or enjoy the best coffee on the riverbank at Café Art. We have now completed our virtual walk along Aura River and have familiarized ourselves with the five bridges along it. So how would you find the walk if its the actual one?

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Continued from May Day in Turku –part 2

As we moved around downtown area, taking pictures of different sights, we noticed that most people wear white cruiser captain caps. Because of this, the kids were so excited to have one. It would as well be a nice souvenir of our trip here. We went to the market square to see if we can find this cap. Unfortunately we couldn’t find one in the shops.

I was surprised to see different nationalities and tourists here in Turku, and some foreign sellers who can speak Finnish. You can see the internationality of the people here perhaps because of the sea port. It was a different scenario in Pori.

The market place was crowded because of the holiday. There was even one pizza shop lined with people waiting to get in. They are running out of seats eh. The pizza here must be delicious. Later in the afternoon we ordered pizza from this shop for take away. We plan to munch this nice smelling pizza in our ship liner, Viking Lines, as we start our cruise to Stockholm. We now bid goodbye to downtown Turku and drove back to Viking Lines port for another travel experience.

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