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| Page Views: 401 Last Visit to Helsinki: June, 2003 I Live Here | nightly captures by sinoda - last update: Jun 10, 2003 |
Thursday night 5th of June about midnight. Eventhough it is an ordinary weekday's late evening there are quite a lot of people around. |
|  | say hi to antti and beni Thursday evening, where to go? What's up in the city?
Well we headed to Belge after having watched Beni, here on the left, chewing on his spicy Kebab in 'Stadin Kebab' (no comment) we went to Belge (see night life tip) a nice place to sit in. |
| | city lights going home - around this time it is not difficult to catch a bus or tram. metro traffic stops around 11p.m. |
| | very comfortable sofas in Belge hmm, Belge again.
If you like belgian beer this is the right place to go to in Helsinki.
But I prefere finnish tapped, like rarely sold Hartwall Classic 1836.
Yes, I know, even Hartwall is not really finnish anymore. |
| | waiting for your bus There are three bus 'terminals' in the very centre of Helsinki.
The depicted here is Rautatientori (east of the rail way station) which is at the moment the biggest and which handles Helsinki city and airport connections.
Another one is on the other side of Rautatientori (west) - Elielinaukio. Because the third one (Linja-autoasema) is now not in use because of Helsinki's building rage, Elielinaukio serves the cities of Espoo and Vantaa... |
| | East entrance of Railway Station Mind this spot Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights...
Almost every Monday you may read in the newspapers how here someone was attacked, mugged or molested... |
| | On entering the bus you must of course pay the fare.
This can be done in several ways.
Either you have a traveling card (issued to people with domicile in greater region of Helsinki)
or
you pay cash, directly to the driver.
There used to be another possibility, a ten fare stamp card, but the traveling card has replaced it.
Tram fares can be paid by sending an sms to 16353 (1,7e), in return you receive the ticket as a message! Neat. Valid for an hour. |
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Belsaita Mon Jun 16, 2008 17:54 UTC
Great tips and amazing pics, thank you for sharing! Heading to Helsinki next week :) Greetings from Barcelona, Isa | Wild_Orchid Wed Nov 28, 2007 07:29 UTC
some nice tips & wish to share coffee with you! :-)) | Kuznetsov_Sergey Tue Sep 26, 2006 14:11 UTC
Very interesting and much information! It's espesially good to know about something what I missed during my visit this august. Very fine and unusual intro-pic. Thanks, Sasa! | mad4travel Thu Jun 29, 2006 15:59 UTC
Great Helsinki pages. I'm going there in 3 weeks time and your pages have given me inspiration! thanks |
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