Snow

In the recent days we had temperatures below -10C in South Finland. Cold enough to let the Sea freeze. It also creates funny shapes on the surface of the ice:

















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This weekend I left Helsinki for a 1 day visit to Stockholm. I left Helsinki on Friday afternoon at 4 and arrived in Stockholm on the next day at 8 am (there is a 1 hour time difference between Stockholm and Helsinki). You can spend the whole day in Stockholm and get back to the boat on the same day at 4 pm. After another night on the boat you will be back in Helsinki at 10 am in the morning. Here some pictures from the trip:

On the way to Stockholm:












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Today, I was more lucky with the weather. Here some of the highlights of Helsinki from 25.11.2010:

Etelasatama:




Senaatintori:








Seagull:


Rautatientori:




Aleksanterinkatu:
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Here are two pics from my arrival at Vantaa Airport on 20.11.2010. I arrived there at 8 am from my stopover in Riga with AirBaltic. The flight with AirBaltic was quite good...so I can recommend this airline. They have also flight offers from Tampere to the north of Finland. I think they advertised it from 40 EUR. Might be an option rather than going the whole way by train:

Yesterday, I was walking through Helsinki and took some snapshots. The city was covered with snow and it was pretty cold.

Senaatintori:






Esplanadi:








Aleksanterinkatu:


Christmas Shop: