Helsinki
ugliest city of Milan is demanding task. Here it is: Helsinki!
is indeed a sad place without well-defined architecture. Easy to "use", the Finnish capital does not shine all that much between the European capitals, even among the less noble. You move well, the signs are clear, the traffic well regulated. Its inhabitants seem like good people, but nothing more. Obviously, everyone here speaks English more than acceptable. That, combined with the traffic order is not enough to make it better overall the "moral capital" Italian.
Within hours, we can not decipher much of the Finns. The government building is Stalinist-style: big, dark, shapeless. And that's really strange, built almost in the suburbs. On the way back, a bus driver attaches to the horn because the car is not moving ahead. Maybe because it passed a red light, he finds himself stuck in an intersection, despite the lack of traffic. Forty seconds of ruin trumpeted the idea a little 'Scandinavian' in Helsinki.
want of anything better, we decide to visit the "Church in the Rock", so called because it is sculpted inside a rocky hill. Inside looks like a normal suburban parish of any Italian city, flat and ultra-modern. A pianist performs songs that seem kind of liturgy. It seems made just for us cruisers, a bit 'like the band playing in the port of St. Petersburg.
We share the center of the city. Let's do some 'shopping in a supermarket in place in a basement. All simple, credit card accepted, contracts are available to help these poor foreigners from southern Europe.
Wandering a bit 'for the center, as there is no left much to be done, we enter the main railway station. Although in the summer, welcomes us with a whiff of warm wet impressive. The Finns love the Mediterranean summer climate and try to reproduce in their environments throughout the year, including summer. The lobby is quite bare, it seems that an underground Central Finland. There is an intense and quiet comings and goings of people. No puffing, no elbow or shoulder, greatest kindness before a possible impact with the next.
Leaving open, a crow perched on a traffic light, yelling something to the passers-by. It sounds like a person, those lunatics who occasionally meet our streets. Here is granted only to animal disturbance of public peace.
they come together here and there some Russians who have to find cheaper and better supplied stores in Finland. Behave slightly over the top than the average Finnish, but all in all, are almost unrecognizable.
The premises frequented by young people setting a bit 'gloomy, night, I guess. Perhaps the fact that the summer season comes down to "good month", maybe for the winter darkness. The boys show no sign of barely a smile when talking to each other, but never in svaccarsi uproarious laughter or large gestures. They seem comfortable with themselves, they content themselves with the little they have sio. They know that out there in Europe there is a colorful and cheerful world. The idea of \u200b\u200b"home" must be better because it is there, warm, well lit, reassuring. It is suspected that the Finns are of mammon ... Publish
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