Time Difference: +2hrs
Currency: Euro
Detail: February
Fact: Helsinki is the design capital!
So I'm back from Finland (And ALIVE too). At one point I was surely convinced i woundnt survive the cold. And thankful no symptoms of a cold too! It was so cold that when the wind blew you had headaches.
Here are some facts about Finland;
It has the highest suicide rate in the whole world!
Alcoholism is pretty normal amongst the people!
(this was proved when my friend and i went to a bar for some down time and the man sitting at the table adjacent to us started yelling about his new invention; Onion Martini. He even forced us to try his drink).
Trust me you don't know cold till you have been in minus 32 to 41 degrees whether.
View from the plane
I stepped out of the rather slow paced airport and make my way to the bus stop (the metro system has not been added to make city to airport journeys efficient). But the buses out there are pretty regular.
Its beautiful! The Finnish people are pretty big on forest land and space and light and thats is reflected in their architecture and personalities.
Lutheran Cathedral
The weather though painfully cold was beautiful. Not a cloud in the sky and the sun shinning in all its glory.
For warmth i got on the tram that circles the city, sat there and took in all the sights but it wasn't exactly the warmest place to be.
It would have been too cruel to get people to take photographs of me because that required them taking off their gloves.
inside Lutheran Cathedral
Even after wearing everything i owned I was still cold so the only way to hop from store to store just to thaw.
Kiasma - Contemporary Art Museum
I think the best thing about this gallery isn't the art itself but the building is more the main attraction.
The beauty that is Kiasma
The Finnish love their forests (im surprised anything grows there)
Thats the sea! its Frozen! You can walk across it!
They have snow man competitions so each store has to make one and a judging panel will make the decision on the winning snow man.
Snow Bride
Ferry Ride
Took a Ferry ride to Suomenlinna an Island previously owned by Swedes.
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