So after the show, I felt I had to do a bit more. Explore the streets a bit more, do some shopping (for family and friends of course), eat a little more...in fact, with the entire itinerary just about done, time to relax, wander and wonder.
Which I did. It included a trip into the Helsinki City Museum, a good thing to do to get a sense of the city, its history and highlights. And coffee. Like any modern museum, there is a museum shop and cafe.
Coffee and salmon for this tired but thrilled tourist.
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| Helsinki Cathedral on Senate Square, on a sunnier day |
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| Protestors and police (for research purposes) |
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| A skateboard-friendly city (at the Museum) |
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| Skateboard details...with Kallio! |
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| Short break |
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| One of the exhibitions... |
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| And associated mechandise |
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| Now, cockatoos... |
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| No, I don't know why |
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| Blue skies happen... |
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| ...down at market square |
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| Helping the market square economy |
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| Slap |
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| Busker |
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| Market with wheel |
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| Marketers |
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| Market square |
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| Stallholders |
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| A variation on a theme--the gull and the tortoise |
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| Girl and gull |
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| Looking out there |
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| Pots of colour |
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| Watching over |
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| Sneak a peek |
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| Tidbit |
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| Lone gull |
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| pavers |
And to think about tomorrow. One morning left before a trip to the airport in the afternoon and back to Tokyo. What will that give me time to do? And what will the weather permit?
[Camera : iPhone6s, 1.45pm-4.43pm; Lumix TZ-85, 10.53am-4.56pm; 11 September 2017]
