Hei taas, äiti! (Hi again, mother!) 
How are you? How is the early autumn going on at home?
Here the nights are already cool, and today it has been raining sleet and snow in Northern Finland. 
Here you can see what kind of weather we´ve been having these last weeks with some exceptions, luckily. 
Do you see how yellow and red the trees have already turned? 
The lights there far away are the lights of one of the runways of the Helsinki airport.
We climbed over the hill on our search for mushrooms, and were surprised to see the airport.
Zoe, who knows the places best and is usually leading our expeditions, never admits she doesn´t know exactly where we are.
"That airport wasn´t there last time I climbed over this hill!", she said. "They have been moving it!"
This is what we found, huge Pestle Puffballs (Lycoperdon excipuliforme), but they were already a bit too old to be eaten.
We get so damp with the amount of fog in the air, that we needed to get somewhere to dry ourselves.
In some way or other we ended into a café. How odd.
We were having coffee..
.. and buns. 
And discussing how the world would be if the airports, buildings and even whole cities were really moving from one place into another. We would go to sleep here near the polar circle and wake up somewhere near equator in the morning without moving a muscle..
Last weekend we had one of those exceptions, a sunny day, I mean, and I made my first visit to Helsinki, the capitol city of Finland.
Here I´m in the bus on my way there.
After I bus I took a train, and stepped out in the Helsinki Central railway station.
Here it is.
The building was designed by Eliel Saarinen and opened 1919.
All the voyagers who have been visiting here have come to the same conclusion than I did, when I saw it: Saarinen has propably been listening a lot to radio. 
These statues are lightbearers, whose roots are in the finnish mythology. They stand on boths sides of the main entrance.
I walked a small round in the centrum to get an impression of the city.
In this pic I´m walking on "Esplanadi". It is a very popular place to spend time in the summer evenings - to sit on the benches drinking and then pass out on the lawn.
Now there was just tourists strolling around, just like me. And these beautiful flowerpots.
And a young couple glued to each other, kissing just in the spot wherefrom I would have had the best view for a interesting fountain. I waited and waited them to move, in vain. 
So I sneaked to bind their shoelaces together, ha ha ha.
Here is the fountain. It is called Havis Amanda.
Four sealions spitting over a naked girl in the middle.
Every year 29.4 the Esplanadi is filled with students finishing their upper secondary school with a big exam called "ylioppilastutkinto". They get a white cap for the sign of getting trough the exam, and they put a similar cap onto the head of Havis Amanda.
Swimming in the fountain is part of the celebration too, needles to say they are drunk as skunks.
After the fountain there was the sea and the famous Kauppatori - Market Square.
Originally Kauppatori was a place where fishermen were selling their catch to the town inhabitants - their piers were here too.
Later on it became the market place for whatever products - the farmers from countryside came here to sell their farm products and handicrafts.
I saw there lots of vegetables, berries, fish and mushrooms, some souveniers and handicrafts and many food stands.
Wow! Mom, if we had sold all the mushrooms we´ve been picking on these prices we would be rich!
But it´s even better to eat them ourselves. Cannot eat richnes.
All the vextables and mushrooms there made me hungry, so I sit down to strengthen myself on the table of one of the many foodstands.
Then I walked one block towards east to see the Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral.
It is designed by Carl Ludvig Engel, and it was first opened for public in 1840.
Nowadays it´s stairs are one of the favorite place for uni students to hang, the uni being just next to it, and also the most popular spot to start demonstration processions.
Now there was going on a happening by some historical horse association.
There was horses and charts and equipment used in field works.
What is that thing, mom?
I asked Henna, but she was rather uncertain and said it might be a harrow or might not. "Anyway it is a thing with which they turn the earth in the field kinda upside down, you know" she said..
That much of her expertism.
We were admiring the horses for some time and then we went back to our cottage in Nuuksio, because we were all feeling a certain emptines in our stomachs already..
See you soon, mom!
A hug from Josie. 
