tags: road, woodland, nature, Helsinki, image of the day
Trees.
Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 2 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Can you name any other large city in the world where you can walk in nature within 20 minutes or so after arriving on a plane?
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Well, actually, Minneapolis. But I get your point, and that is a nice pic.
I don't think it would take much more than 20 minutes to get from National Airport to Roosevelt Island (by Metro), or to Dyke Marsh (by car) for that matter. But I guess that depends on how natural you want the landscape to be. Nice photo of the birches.
Congratulations to having an efficient check out system. In most airports you won't get out of the doors in 20 minutes :-)
Yes! Get off the plane at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne (Aus) and a taxi can take you to the Organ Pipes national park (Australia's smallest NP) in minutes via the ring road. The park is in a big hole in a basalt plain with some interesting rock formations and the occasional band of sweet chocolate-brown wallabies, if it's a quiet day. Otherwise you'll have the peaceful shushing of the wind through casuarinas and melaleucas and eucalypts.
Congratulations to having an efficient check out system. In most airports you won't get out of the doors in 20 minutes :-)
Oh. I did't know we were counting from when you landed.... I thought from when you were on the way out of the airport. Makes a slight difference....
i've flown into the minn-st paul and the airport was very nice. but it seemed the city sprawled on forever .. it's a nice city, don't get me wrong, but it just went on, or seemed to.
i've never flown into melbourne. your description sounds wonderful, helen! so when are you going to invite me to visit your fair city? ;)