Day 178

We spent the whole day on deck in the sun, watching the archipelago transforming to open sea and back to archipelago again.



The boats make a stop at Mariehamn due to tax-issues, for duty-free goods to be sold on-board (the island of Åland, where Mariehamn is capital, is not a part of the EU customs zone even though Finland is).

All these ships are on their way between either Stockholm and Turku, or the other way around, and all meet up at the same time in Mariehamn. There are two major cruise companies between Sweden and Finland, and then a third one that only goes between Stockholm and Mariehamn. That is the one we usually go by, so this ship was a new experience for us.