Thankyou for all the interest shown by so many. I find that quite uplifting as well as receiving an award from a former Helsinki girl. Shows she approves of my presentation of the city she spent 20 years in.
These photos overlooking the bay of Toolo were taken at the end of March. The water there is now open and there's no snow left.
The streets seen in the photos belong to a part called Hakaniemi.
This is an office/shop building called the 'Round house'.
As you can see Helsinki is a city of both old and modern buildings side by side. Also houses from the fifties exist quite a lot due to the previous buildings having been bombarded down during the second world war. Some suburbs still exist were there are mainly whole streets of old wooden houses and others were there are only modern office block buildings. It's thus like many big cities in its versatility.
