[Leica] Nathan's PAD 28/10/2019: cold and empty streets

[Don Dory]

If you have laid in your stores of grain based fluids or perhaps potato
based liquids there is no reason to endure the dark and cold.  Bears have
it right.

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 1:13 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> I am in Helsinki right now, a short business trip before flying on to
> Copenhagen and a few days’ vacation later today. I arrived in Finland on
> Wednesday night, and rather than having dinner with my colleagues (we are 5
> people from the office here), I spent the evening walking around,
> re-discovering the city I used to visit very frequently in the late 1990s
> but had not visited since 2001. I felt a certain pleasure recognising the
> familiar places, despite the bitterly cold temperature—it was below
> freezing even though we are only in October. For that reason, the streets
> were virtually deserted after 9 p.m. Four images from my walk.
>
> Stockmann is a grand old department store in the centre. I remember that
> there was a nice bar in the basement where I sometimes sought escape from
> the cold:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-4kvVKNs/A
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> The main Esplanade connecting the centre with the harbour. I used to stay
> in Hotel Kämp, one of the buildings on the left:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-hpWz7xd/A
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> Helsinki City Hall:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-vqd3ZQz/A
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> Sofia Street with the Lutheran cathedral in the background:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-RVMqpXs/A
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> Of all the cities I have visited, Helsinki is the one that changes the
> most from winter to summer. On a July day when the sun barely sets, these
> streets look like a Mediterranean town.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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