Photos from the Finnish Capital
…at 6pm but hours before that she was already wearing something.
Once she gets a wash and her cap from university students, the big crowd around her puts their white student caps on as well to mark the official start of May Day Eve celebrations.
HS has posted a gallery of Helsinki May Day photos starting from 1891 (click “katso kooste >>” below the photo to start the slideshow). Many of the decades old photos look surprisingly familiar for Helsinkians of today.
Klara vappen!
…were here a few weeks ago.
Hullut päivät (crazy days) is a traditional biannual sales campaign of Stockmann department store. Sometimes it seems that almost everybody in central Helsinki is carrying a yellow campaign plastic bag (or five of them).
The next few days will also be crazy days in Helsinki thanks to the May Day celebrations.
…the many (partially) closed streets.
It seems that pretty much every year when Helsinkians would want to enjoy the few warm summer months, there is noisy and dusty work going on the streets in a very central locations. In 2008 the old main street looked like this only a few hundred meters away from here.
This isn’t actually very disturbing site but I was able to include Helsinki cathedral in the background.
…in Pasila.
…from 1931.
According to the ship blog (in Finnish) the steamboat is the youngest and the most beautiful that has been built on the shores of lake Saimaa.
…after the volcanic ash from Iceland has finally cleared. Finland was among the first and the last countries that were affected.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari travelled a week from Iceland to his home in Helsinki. The 72 year old peace mediator flew via New York and Venezuela to Portugal and from there he travelled literally through Europe on a minibus.
In the photo a DC-6B at Helsinki International Airshow 2009.
…water. In the summer there are just a few drops going down.
Have a look at an excellent video of kayakers who paddled through the waterfall by Petri Tuohimaa. Or look at the photos by Juha Ylitalo.
…in the rain.
…the foreign minister of Finland. Today he was supposed to meet Hillary Clinton in Helsinki but the Icelandic volcanic ash changed the plans of the secretary of the state. After the cold war visits of top U.S politicians have been quite rare.
Have a closer look at the unusual painting of the foreign minister and Stubb himself at Dagens Nyheter. Helsingin Sanomat tells you more about the painting by Kaj Stenvall.
…games.
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