7 days in Helsinki: the curious conference-goer’s itinerary

Nestled in its unassuming Nordic corner, Helsinki lies at one of Europe's cultural and historical crossroads. Spend a week traversing its trams and strolling its streets, and you'll find yourself crisscrossing works of Russian czarist architecture and inhaling whiffs of rye and onion that might just as well have wafted out of a kitchen in neighbouring Sweden. Quietly cosmopolitan and yet quintessentially Finnish, the 2019 EAIE Conference host city has more layers than you can peel back in a mere week – but you'd be crazy not to try. More...