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Old Posted Oct 6, 2006, 1:20 PM
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2006, 1:38 PM
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Helsinki is a pleasant and well ordered place, certainly one of the best cities in that sense (when it comer to cleanliness, public safety, transport etc.)



Btw, The Dear Leader, didn't this cause you a heart attack? These flags are so scary, aren't they?

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Old Posted Oct 6, 2006, 1:48 PM
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Yeah, those flags along with the Döner sign really shocked me.
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Helsinki looks like a Russian city...I like it
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2006, 6:51 PM
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Very nice pics.
This is my fav:
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2006, 9:13 PM
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Helsinki looks like a Russian city...I like it
These Russian style buildings were built during the period while Finland was part of the Russian Empire. Some of them remained until these days and are (I suppose) a historic and architectural heritage. This is, however, the only similarity Helsinki has got with Russian cities... fortunutely or unfortunately
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Your photos have a very professional touch. The places are stereotypically touristy Helsinki, but that's understandable. (Please tell me you ventured outside Senate Square, Esplanade park and railway station area!) I especially liked the photos that showed detaills (http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...helsinki27.jpg my favourite), or ones that presented buildings them with strong geographical lines. October is awful time to be in the city, though.

I myself really hate the area around the Senate Square and the harbour. It may have some coherent Empire architecture, but it's so lifeless and dull. Once the tourism season ends, there's no one there for a simple reason: there's nothing to do. The real soul of Helsinki is in the districts of Kamppi and Punavuori with their Jugend/Art Nouveau buildings, clubs and places of interest, the cafes of the 1920s district Töölö, or central streets of Kluuvi. When I think of stereotypical streets of Helsinki, they look like this or this in my mind. I don't mind Empire, especially not in larger buildings such as the ones you can find in St. Petersburg or the main building of University of Helsinki, for example, but it's a crime that they been made into places where mainly tourists only go. There are some plans to revitalize them, but I wouldn't hold my breath - cities of the country still have to fully more adapt "European street life culture", especially outside summer. Focusing on sprawling concrete suburbs in the forests isn't helping a lot.
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Old Posted Oct 8, 2006, 11:34 PM
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Please tell me you ventured outside Senate Square, Esplanade park and railway station area!
Of course I did. Went to the southern tip of the island (where that park is...I think a couple of pics from that area are in the thread as well) and wandered thru some other areas w/o my camera. I'll post some additional pics tomorrow afternoon.
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beautiful pictures!!
I love Helsinki, it is such a beautiful city.
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You captured the maritime feeling of Helsinki pretty well! And the quality of the photos is superb.
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No offense to Helsinki or any Finnish forumers, but the pictures look like a 'rent-a-euro-city'
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No offense to Helsinki or any Finnish forumers, but the pictures look like a 'rent-a-euro-city'
And what does that exactly mean?
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No offense to Helsinki or any Finnish forumers, but the pictures look like a 'rent-a-euro-city'
That's propably because The Romans never made it this far up North.
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Those are really nice pictures, but they're really just from the most central part of Helsinki - the same area they like to show the tourists. But that's just a really small part of Helsinki, which spans over 10 kilometers across.

Here's a few pics from the East-Helsinki, even though still just a small section of the city, it's Helsinki as I see it:












































This is Cirrus, the tallest residential building in Finland at almost 100m tall. It doesn't appear to be that tall though =/
It looks 60m max...






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Helsinki looks like a really nice place, great pictures. Its on my list of places to visit as i have a friend from there (but i've just recently been around Scandinavia, so it might not be for a while)
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nice, Helsinki does look very Scandinavian, it is very nice city, remind me of Amsterdam, not sure why.

Perhaps docks, and stuff, it is a nice city
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The illumination of the buildings at night is magnificent
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Nice pictures....I'm half Finnish on my mother's side, and we hope to take her there for her 1st visit next summer while she can still get around...
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