Thursday, April 30, 2009

Kamppi busstation

There's the Mayday celebrations and carneval in Helsinki and other cities of Finland today and tomorrow. Unfortunately you will not be witness to these happenings through this blog as I'm heading off to the peace and quiet of the countryside for a few days.

Instead I leave you to ponder over the new built-in busstation complex Kamppi and on top of that a couple of furry creatures that I came across in the old town region.






The finnish horse, a tough and winter hardy working horse breed. Here undergoing a changing of fur and thus looking quite scruffy.


Another Gottland Russ pony. Also seemingly under process of changing fur.

In case you should wonder, all these photos in my blog were taken in the end of March. So the snow and ice was still present and not a lot of greenery. Not so anymore.

Happy Mayday everyone!

14 comments:

  1. Interesting plaza around the buildings. I like the horses, too.

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  2. Wonderful pictures!I love horses too!Have a nice weekend!

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  3. That building is really impressive! Love the horses too!

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  4. Beautiful plaza, but the horse is just so sweet.

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  5. Nice to see the city and the countryside. I like the horse ive never seen that type here. It must be a tough breed to be loseing its winter coat with so much snow still around.

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  6. Your photos are beautiful, you do manage to find some wonderful views to share with us all.

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  7. Beautiful place and light in the evening. I will visit helsinki, so I will follow your blog to know more about your city.

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  8. Great photos. The horse has sort of diminished in status since the widespread us of motorized vehicles. But that may change in the future ...

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  9. Love the horse picture, the first one. That's a very good pose you snapped there.

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  10. The new bus station looks good. I guess more people are using the buses as petrol is getting more expensive. Or is it cheap in Finland? The ponies are cute. shedding their winter fur preparing for summery days.

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  11. The buildings seem to glow with natural light somehow. These shots are an interesting contrast to the lovely, tawny, serene horses.

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  12. Vilken kontrast mellan dessa hus/storstad / och så hästen å landet!
    Tråkigt att du inte fick upp bildern hos mig,

    bättre lycka nästa gång hoppas jag,
    MB

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  13. I really like those Finnish horses, but the new bus station is very madern and beautiful.

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