tags: Rautatientori, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
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tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland
Brick tower that is just outside my host's apartment
in the Munkkivuori neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland.
Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland…
tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland
Gifts of chocolate and licorice from my host.
Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Ah, the breakfast of champions: licorice and chocolate. Well, and coffee (not pictured, but you get the idea).
My…
tags: park, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
Park in Helsinki, Finland.
Photographed as I walked through Helsinki, Finland, from Seurasaari.
Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
I really like this image, and the bridge, too. It's very Monet-esque, don't…
tags: dock, Seurasaari, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
Public dock in downtown Helsinki, Finland.
Photographed as I walked through Helsinki, Finland, from Seurasaari.
Image: GrrlScientist, 4 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)
Here is a lovely public dock located in downtown Helsinki (…
Helsinki's train station: I remember it well : its art deco interior with those exotic candy kiosks and not a public phone in sight.. Flanking the doorway, see how solemn Saarinen's sculptures look- bearing gifts it seems...
I was passing through in 2007 , on my way to a wedding on 60degree parallel.
Only very approximately, Grrrl dear.
You have to be north of the arctic circle, something like 67 degree north. Helsinki is a little bit above the 60th parallel, 800 km (500 miles) too far south for real 24-hour sunlight. It is true, however, that the sun doesn't go too far below the horizon and it is possible to read the newspaper at midnight.
The clock tower might look strange in this picture. There is renovation going on, and the scaffolding has been draped with a photoreproduction of the tower.