First time downtown Helsinki

Riitta, on the train ride to Helsinki.
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Helsinki is AMAZING!  Such a typical European city.  Brilliant architecture, pretty street lanterns, cobble stone streets, pigeons, and talented street musicians. It feels so strange and wonderful to finally be living so near a city líke it! So far I have been there every weekend..in the summer I hope to go there every week-night. ;)  Riitta Heilimo (old friend and fellow English speaker) took me downtown my very first time one Sat. night. Although it was cold and dark, there were still so many people out and about.  We walked around and I took pictures and we went to a pleasant coffee shop to warm up (Helsinki is full of really  great coffee shops).   I have a few very bad pics of the city..they were taken that first night and it was so cold and dark that it was difficult to get even one good shot.   Some day if I remember, when I don't have fat mittens on and it's daylight..I'll take some more pictures.