Helsinki Day Two
The day started out doing the bus sight seeing tour. This was a great way to see the city, even though I think the bus' English recording was out synch with the tour at times. After the tour, I walked over the National Musuem (see below)
The musuem covers all of Finnish history, from the Pre-Historic times to the present day (at least for now). They had artifacts from the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age. The Medieval exhibit has a staute to my family's name sake.
This year is the Centennial for Finland. The musuem had a special photo exhibit covering 100 years of Finnish history. The pictures were great but the one that got me was the shot below. It was looking at a prosperity that Finland was growing into in 1930. What got me was the boy had a Mickey Mouse doll. I did not know Disney had merch that early in Mickey's career.
After the museum, I decided to check out the Sibelius Monument made for the composer Jean Sibelius. This reminded me of the gold statue of Struass in Vienna. Its cool when an artist gets a memorial. The second picture is under the monument.
Then I went to the Temppeliaukio Church aka Rock Church. The chruch is built in solid rock. I really got to give it to the archietcts and builders, it looks beuatiful. Iam not clear which denomination uses it, but I hope they do not do a lot of kneeling. The floor is solid without any carpet.
I started on the way back. On the way I took a pciture of the Parliament House which had a lot of construction going around it. I decided to save a little badnwidth that day and I did all my navigation by map and I was able to get around OK and did not get lost.
One interesting thing I saw before the bus tour. This sign fordibs the use of drones near Senate Square. It interesting that use of drones has become so common that its use has to be restricted. Voice actor Ruben Langdon use his drone get footage of places in Japan and was cool to get a top view of places like the Ghibli Museum.
Today I will go to church, move into the long term hotel and do some biking.
The musuem covers all of Finnish history, from the Pre-Historic times to the present day (at least for now). They had artifacts from the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age. The Medieval exhibit has a staute to my family's name sake.
This year is the Centennial for Finland. The musuem had a special photo exhibit covering 100 years of Finnish history. The pictures were great but the one that got me was the shot below. It was looking at a prosperity that Finland was growing into in 1930. What got me was the boy had a Mickey Mouse doll. I did not know Disney had merch that early in Mickey's career.
After the museum, I decided to check out the Sibelius Monument made for the composer Jean Sibelius. This reminded me of the gold statue of Struass in Vienna. Its cool when an artist gets a memorial. The second picture is under the monument.
Then I went to the Temppeliaukio Church aka Rock Church. The chruch is built in solid rock. I really got to give it to the archietcts and builders, it looks beuatiful. Iam not clear which denomination uses it, but I hope they do not do a lot of kneeling. The floor is solid without any carpet.
I started on the way back. On the way I took a pciture of the Parliament House which had a lot of construction going around it. I decided to save a little badnwidth that day and I did all my navigation by map and I was able to get around OK and did not get lost.
One interesting thing I saw before the bus tour. This sign fordibs the use of drones near Senate Square. It interesting that use of drones has become so common that its use has to be restricted. Voice actor Ruben Langdon use his drone get footage of places in Japan and was cool to get a top view of places like the Ghibli Museum.
Today I will go to church, move into the long term hotel and do some biking.