Hyvää iltaa, äiti! (= Good evening, mother!)
As you can see I´m already learning some finnish, mum! I can then teach some for you too!
I have been already seeing lots of things.
One day we went to Helsinki.
The train took us to the main railwaystation, which is behind me in the pic.
And then we took a tram.
I was watching the Helsinki city trough the window.
Helsinki is the capital of Finland, and although there is many other towns in Finland, Henna says most of them are so small they are much smaller than villages in most Europe..
We were asked to Hennas mothers place to have coffee and cakes!
In finnish coffee is "kahvi".
I met a somewhat grumpy cat, who was on top of a high closet.
And I also met some toys, but they were not voyagers..
After some time we wanted to go out again, to see more things.
So we walked towards the city center.
This is "Suurkirkko" - the main lutheral cathedral in Helsinki.
Then we went to see "Kauppatori", the market square.
They were selling lots of different mushrooms.
Now there was the annual herring fair going on.. lots of stands selling herring products.
"Silakka" = herring
The harbour was full of fishermens boats, selling herring straight from the boats.
This old lighthouse ship was working as a restaurant.
It looked nice, but we waned to be in open air, when the sun was shining.
We climbed a hill.
to see the Uspenski orthodox cathedral.
We peeped a bit in too, but they didn´t like photographing there.
So we walked along the shoreline.
These are big icebreakers, which keep the harbours an main ship routes open during vinter, when the sea ice can be over a meter thick.
This is an old sea mine. After war they were cleaning hundreds of these from the sea bottom.
We saw some rowans full of berries.
This is a life saving boat.
Now I stop and go to sleep.
Next time I propably know already some numbers in finnish!
Henna promised to teach me!
Kisses from Melek