It’s easy to miss home at this time of year. Christmas for us signals the start of summer holidays – long hours of sunshine, songbirds, swimming and sand.
One thing about living in Finland however is the intensity of each season. It’s good for me to remember that winter here can be beautiful …. and it’s not forever.
One place this is evident is Töölönlahti – it’s a great bay to walk around and witness the incredible changes as they take place.
9th October 2014
2 December 2014 – starting to freeze
Ducks on ice
4th January 2015 – frozen
7th January 2015
23rd January 2015
And something to look forward to! Same place, different day (taken 3rd August 2014)
Hey Helsinki 
What beautiful pictures!
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Thank you! You could get some amazing results I’m sure if you took a photo a week in the same spot in Finland. Thank you for your comments ; )
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Ooroo!
Great pictures, I miss finnish winter and sauna… I’m finnish backpacker travelling around Oz and might visit NZ too 🙂 Having read further your blog, it’s funny (and obvious) to see you had exactly the same cultural “shocks” as I had when I first arrived Sydney. Even more exciting is that I needed a “english-aussie-english” dictionary at some points!! I’m having a tramvel blog marsoinaustralia.blogspot.com if you have a squiz =)
Stinker day wishes, Marco
ps. If you’re a shopping person, a new shopping center goodman was opened in my city, hämeenlinna just 1h drive north from Helsinki. If you go there, make sure you visit Aulanko nature reserve too!
pps. I can barely eat vegemite. Does your family like salmiakki?
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Hi! Thanks for stopping by. It seems we have almost swapped places & it’s great to read your blog and see the things you find unusual about Australia that we took for granted. I miss the Aussie summer right now so will enjoy some snow and sauna for you if you can enjoy some sunshine for me. I hope you’ll get to visit New Zealand at some point, you might need another dictionary though. We say ‘chilly bin’, instead of Esky and ‘jandals’ instead of thongs. Have a great time and stay safe out there in the wild Australian landscape. PS I’m not sure anyone really likes vegemite much – do people really like salmiakki? I see you have discovered KFC, just as we have discovered koorvapustit. ; )
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“do people really like salmiakki?”
YES!
http://salmiakki.fi/?page_id=186
😉
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Thanks Urmas. “Usually there’s an overwhelming salty liquorice buffet” – mmmmm. PS did you notice I did not use the L word in this post about Töölönlahti? (Lake that is, lesson learnt).
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Gorgeous photos! I will be in Helsinki soon…hoping for snow.
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Light snow now! Fingers crossed for more 😊
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Great reeading your blog post
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