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Published on: June 5, 2023

Kruunuhaka tour in helsinki

Russian emperor Aleksander 1st has incorrectly been marked here to 100 years wrong year - writer is a Helsinki Guide...

Oikokatu in Kruununhaka area

I have seen the writing on the wall

This Jugend style house in Helsinki was a site where secret jaegers were collected and guided to Germany to get military education

Maurinkatu 4 street gate has a nice story - the name of the building is not Suomela!

Published on: May 23, 2023

hms albion visiting helsinki

Hms Albion is a British ship supporting groups to land

Drummers performing on deck

Equipment required to let the troops to land

Vessel is equipped with self defencing barrel gun

Please do not use Google translator. In stead of that, British Dictionary can help...

Published on: May 15, 2023

original people in helsinki

Sometimes people say that we Finns are silent and somehow uneasy to get near. Of course we do have some, but most of us are very interesting persons...

During the negotiations in Säätytalo, Helsinki, regarding fossil fuel use, we met mr. Tulipää (Firehead) - an exentric artist fighting against coal usage.

Artist Firehead - who is he?

In Helsinki Arja met another interesting artist, Mr Markku "the Pig" Puustinen, that has created voice-producing art in Helsinki.

Published on: May 3, 2023

Waste water treatment in helsinki

We had an opportunity to visit the waste water treatment facility in Viikki, Helsinki.

Waste water treatment process starts with sand and big particles removal

Some examples of the stuff people have flushed down the sewers

Good example of the "not-belonging" stuff is butt-plugs...

Mechanical grids are picking up unwanted things from the waste water

Primary sedimentation and thickening

All of the process is done underground

Oxygen is added to the process so the bacteria can eat the waste

Final cleaning is done with bacteria before the cleaned water is pumped to sea

Published on: April 29, 2023

jautlandia at pielavesi

In center of Finland exists a special area for geocachers: Jautlandia. It is developed by mr. Jauhiainen, that builds wild geocaches with figures and technology. "None shall pass!"

Some gems of Jautlandia include a nice grassmoving unit

Mr. Jauhiainen himself beside his solar panel system

Ari's solar panel system can be rotated to follow the sun and also tilted to get the maximum light

Published on: April 18, 2023

Suomenlinna guide educ tour

Ferry to Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna smaller dry dock

Suomenlinna guides at the dry dock gate

Suomenlinna dry dock gate is filled with water to keep it in place

Suomenlinna bigger dry dock had some smaller boats still in

Suomenlinna has a repair place for old wooden ships

Old lighthouse ship is waiting to get repaired

Suomenlinna's Rantakasarmi gate

Suomenlinna's high walls have also an eagle-owl having her nest

Published on: April 11, 2023

Tour with a birthday supprise

We had a Helsinki tour to a family.

Tour includes often a stop beside the cafe Regatta

We had a stop at the Senate Square also

Birthday supprise

Published on: April 2, 2023

New water heater to gustafsvärn in hanko

Gustafsvärn is a lighthouse island in front of Hanko town. The sauna on that island required a new water boiling kettle, and that kind of thing was found at Helsinki fair centre.

Teuva water boiler

At the harbour of Hanko we loaded the new table and the water boiler into the boat going to Gustavsvärn island

Water boiler in the boat

And then off we go

The new water boiler will be placed near the sauna

After we got back to Hanko town, we visited the most southern point of Finland, the Hanko peninsula. During and after the second world war, this area used to be a prison. Now the building "might need some little repairs"

It's rather long walk to the southernmost point, so rest is needed

The southernmost point of Finland is a route for the migrating birds to come and leave. Part of the peninsula is thus restricted to only birdwatchers from the university