The “Baana” (slang word for “road”) is the new bicycle and pedestrian route that has been built where the tracks to the old harbor once went. With the harbor moved…
How kind of the city to put up walls around the bus stop so that everyone can put up posters.
Someone gets on the tram, travels a few blocks together with strangers and then gets of never to cross their paths again. Just a small shimmer of a memory remains..
May the YYA-force be with you, always! Can you identify this rather recent monument symbolizing how the Finnish people were being protected from all evil?
Have ticket, will listen to music! The Helsinki Music Centre is the new hub for many types of music in Helsinki. From when the architectural design was published up to…
The Finlandia Hall (Finlandiatalo in Finnish) is one of the hallmark buildings of Helsinki and one of the most – if not the most – important buildings in Finland designed…
Cool presentation in the window of Nina’s on Bulevardi 13 in Helsinki. Very nice that stylish, high-heeled shoes are in fashion right now !
Cars rushing into the newish underpass where Mannerheimintie turns into the motorway to Tampere.
Jätkäsaari (“Rough Man’s Island) used to be the harbor of Helsinki until a few years back. The harbor moved to Vuosaari to the east of Helsinki. Most of Jätkäsaari will,…
To people who sail or boat, autumn in Finland is the time to take the boat our of the water and prepare it for the long and cold winter. Most…
The new University library of the Helsinki University just opened in Kaisaniemi.
Chanterelles for sale in Market Square. Chanterelles are very good mushroom, you can for instance make a very nice sauce of them by lightly frying them with onions and then…
The Helsinki Design Week is an annual design event in Helsinki held around the beginning of September each year. This year the program was particularly extensive as Helsinki was also…
Work gloves left to dry at in an allotment garden in Helsinki. There are lots of such gardens all around the city. Some even have small cottages. People grow flowers,…
Taking a stroll thru Seurasaari, the open air museum in Helsinki, some ducks on a small, dark pond swam up to me and made these ripples on the water.
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