You’re visiting Southern Finland when life really sucks here. Helsinki and Turku are my favorite cities in the summer, but December really sucks. It’s cold, wet, dark and depressing outside. Next time, please reach out to some of us locals. I’d be happy to show you around when wheater drives people inside.
FYI, that rail maintenance in Turku is now over and since last sunday (Dec 15th) trains to/from Helsinki again go past Kupittaa station and select services the terminus is Turku harbour. However, Turku central railway station is still under renovation and its functions have been moved nearby event centre Logomo (a former rail engine/car workshop). And one note on the universities in Turku: after the great fire of Turku, the old Acedemy of Turku was moved to Helsinki to became the modern University of Helsinki, the current universities in Turku were then established only later, the Swedish-language Åbo Akademi in 1918 and Finnish-language University of Turku in 1920.
Yes, because of construction of new rails the trains to the Helsinki direction departed a good time from the Kupittaa station which is located in the east central part of the town, not in the outskirts. However as @HezuFoto points out, the work is now done and trains to both the Helsinki and Tampere directions depart by the pedestrian bridge next to the event arena Logomo. The old main railway station is no longer used, and a new one is to be built close to that pedestrian bridge, across the event arena. There is a train connection directly from the harbour to Logomo. Extending your trip to begin from the harbour instead of Logomo costs you probably less than 1€ (the railway company uses so called dynamic pricing, so prices vary). However, the fare just from the harbour to Logomo with a train is higher than with a local bus.
I would recommend visiting the Helsinki Zoo if you ever have time preferably during the summer months when you can take the ferry to the Island and it´s more pleasant outside.
In a fact, that is not a City Courthouse in Turku, it's a former University main building and today used by Court of Appeal. City Court in Turku is much more modern building. And behind the Christmas markets in Helsinki you see the main building of Helsinki University, better known as Aalto University.
Helsinki chatedral looks plain? Not to a Finnish eye. Also never heard it been called ikea anything. I love how you walk through the city of Turku and there is no one there :D
Have You ever heard of music called SANDSTORM - by DARUDE ! That IS The most watched Helsinki video - and You surely do regonize - The White Church by The Senate Square
Global warming definitely has an impact on the amount of snow - in the south we may get very little (too warm), or absolutely loads (warm sea temperatures create more moisture in the clouds), and the temperatures can fluctuate above and below zero, creating chaos (first we get snow, then rain, so it melts a little, and then it freezes over to ice, and finally a bit more rain to make the ice super dangerous to walk on). I prefer proper winters!
You’re visiting Southern Finland when life really sucks here. Helsinki and Turku are my favorite cities in the summer, but December really sucks. It’s cold, wet, dark and depressing outside. Next time, please reach out to some of us locals. I’d be happy to show you around when wheater drives people inside.
FYI, that rail maintenance in Turku is now over and since last sunday (Dec 15th) trains to/from Helsinki again go past Kupittaa station and select services the terminus is Turku harbour. However, Turku central railway station is still under renovation and its functions have been moved nearby event centre Logomo (a former rail engine/car workshop).
And one note on the universities in Turku: after the great fire of Turku, the old Acedemy of Turku was moved to Helsinki to became the modern University of Helsinki, the current universities in Turku were then established only later, the Swedish-language Åbo Akademi in 1918 and Finnish-language University of Turku in 1920.
Yes, because of construction of new rails the trains to the Helsinki direction departed a good time from the Kupittaa station which is located in the east central part of the town, not in the outskirts. However as @HezuFoto points out, the work is now done and trains to both the Helsinki and Tampere directions depart by the pedestrian bridge next to the event arena Logomo. The old main railway station is no longer used, and a new one is to be built close to that pedestrian bridge, across the event arena.
There is a train connection directly from the harbour to Logomo. Extending your trip to begin from the harbour instead of Logomo costs you probably less than 1€ (the railway company uses so called dynamic pricing, so prices vary). However, the fare just from the harbour to Logomo with a train is higher than with a local bus.
I would recommend visiting the Helsinki Zoo if you ever have time preferably during the summer months when you can take the ferry to the Island and it´s more pleasant outside.
In a fact, that is not a City Courthouse in Turku, it's a former University main building and today used by Court of Appeal. City Court in Turku is much more modern building. And behind the Christmas markets in Helsinki you see the main building of Helsinki University, better known as Aalto University.
The Ikea cathedral? How dare you! It is beautiful outside but rather plain on the inside. Very Lutheran
I was told it's called this by a Finnish tour guide 😅
Helsinki chatedral looks plain? Not to a Finnish eye. Also never heard it been called ikea anything.
I love how you walk through the city of Turku and there is no one there :D
Have You ever heard of music called SANDSTORM - by DARUDE ! That IS The most watched Helsinki video - and You surely do regonize - The White Church by The Senate Square
Global warming definitely has an impact on the amount of snow - in the south we may get very little (too warm), or absolutely loads (warm sea temperatures create more moisture in the clouds), and the temperatures can fluctuate above and below zero, creating chaos (first we get snow, then rain, so it melts a little, and then it freezes over to ice, and finally a bit more rain to make the ice super dangerous to walk on). I prefer proper winters!
In past newspaper 8:56 s from 1850 found news 33 time no snow in Finland winter. Its nothing to do with climate warmin.
@@distinctions5714 Yes, it is the coastal climate tha does that. Sometimes snow, sometimes not.