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Forevershi  #492673  Tue, 25 Mar 08 08:35 AM
Smile  Hi,Cool Breeze.How beautiful these pics are!Thanks for showing us.I admire you live such a gorgeous place,where you can lie under warm sunshine,swim and enjoy lively atmosphare.Good for you,buddy
  
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Cool Breeze  #493119  Wed, 26 Mar 08 10:13 AM
Unfortunately my pictures are a little grainy because I don't have a good digital camera. I'm not very keen on photography and I only have a cell phone camera  -  and the phone is three years old. I took these pictures a couple of years ago and sent them to an English friend.

A few more:

The Hilton Hotel
A downtown shopping centre
The Old Chapel Restaurant entrance in winter
Another restaurant entrance in winter
Modern apartment buildings
Modern apartment buildings
Autumn is setting in and the leaves are turning yellow and red
Töölö Bay with the Opera House in the background
Cheers
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Francesca  #493227  Wed, 26 Mar 08 04:24 PM
Hey CB, thanks for sharing those pics! Don't worry about the quality of your images, it's enough to make me curious to see the city with my own eyes Wink
  
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Cool Breeze  #493232  Wed, 26 Mar 08 04:34 PM
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Hey CB, thanks for sharing those pics! Don't worry about the quality of your images, it's enough to make me curious to see the city with my own eyes Wink
 

Francesca, you are welcome to Helsinki any time.Smile  I also want to thank all others who have posted replies. I'm afraid I have more or less exhausted my present supply of photos but when summer comes and there are leaves on trees again, I'll take a walk with my phone camera and upload a few more pictures.

CB 

  
Doll  #493515  Thu, 27 Mar 08 10:35 AM

Thanks for your search, so it is not as cold as I thought but still cooler than Turkey. Smile I am used to hot weather so much that I can't swim when it is under 32 C.

  
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Cool Breeze  #493592  Thu, 27 Mar 08 01:31 PM
Doll

Thanks for your search, so it is not as cold as I thought but still cooler than Turkey.

 

Oh yes, of course Finland is colder than Turkey. You are closer to the equator. However, the Gulf Stream provides warm weather for Scandinavia  -  and actually much of Europe. Take New York, for example. There are no palm-trees in New York and subzero temperatures are not uncommon in winter. Nice in southern France is situated further north than New York but palm-trees grow there.

Summer days can be quite cold in Finland if we have northerly winds for a few days. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often. One factor that is conducive to warm weather is our distance from the Atlantic. Areas that are very close to it, like Norway and the British Isles, tend to be cooler in summertime because the ocean water never becomes very warm even in summer. Especially on windy days when there is a strong wind from a cold sea, the weather cannot obviously be particularly warm. Southern and central Finland is warmer in summer than central England, and considerably warmer than Ireland. Our winters are colder than British winters, though, but as relative humidity is usually lower, the dry coldness doesn't necessarily feel as bad as in humid countries. I have been to London once in December and I decided never to go there again in winter bacause it was so cold!Smile

Cheers

CB 

  
Doll  #493682  Thu, 27 Mar 08 07:07 PM

God! A complete geography lesson. Thanks. Though I knew only some of this, I still can't take myself from laughing at some tourists visiting here.  

Well, I decided not to laugh at tourists wearing shorts when we are in our sweaters in March. I will think that they must be from Denmark or Finland. Whisper

  
Kooyeen  #494105  Fri, 28 Mar 08 06:36 PM
Good pics CB! Yes
I was surprised to hear it's so hot (warm) around there. Really, I expected to see ice, snow, scarfs and hats in your pictures, but... it's sunny, warm, naked people everywhere! You know, I'm afraid I might have mistaken Finland with the North Pole. I was never good in Geography... I might have been the worst. Big Smile
  
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ISU_152  #501028  Tue, 15 Apr 08 01:53 PM
 Nice pictures and nice town.Yes
  
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