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ten dollars American money into Fin marks in New York airport. It took every cent to get to our Hotel Marski Hotel. Our room was on the west side overlooking hot roofs of buildings. There was definitely no air conditioning but the hotel attendant did open the windows which helped.

It was very strange being in a country where few people seemed not to speak or understand any English. After a time, Albert and I walked around looking. We managed to find the bus station and to buy bus tickets for the next day’s journey to Imatra, Finland which was about 150 miles away. We were assigned comfortable front seats on the bus with a good strong driver and a girl who took care of tickets, change, etc.