Kosminen kotinurkka

First of all I’d like to wish all of you a wonderful, surprising and adventurous New Year! I’ve been away for a week spending Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Helsinki with friends and family. We left the 23rd with Robin and travelled via Malmö and Copenhagen. At the airport in Helsinki both of our parents were waiting for us and there we separated: Robin left for the countryside while I went straight to the pulsating city of Helsinki (this is irony – Helsinki in the Christmas is very much dead). Christmas was great, calm, cozy and very traditional. We had some delicious food, watched movies (ranging from classics like “It’s a Woderful Life” which brakes my heart and the fills it with happiness and gratitude, to nostalgic craziness like “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!”) and just talked. Of course I also enjoyed the sauna (my favourite pastime, without a doubt), was overwhelmed by all the lovely present I got and played quiz several times and lost every single time. I also met some of my great friends, enjoyed the newly renovated shopping galleries and cafés of Helsinki and marvelled at how the city changes each time I visit. The poor, gray Helsinki of my childhood is definitely fading away and disappearing.

All in all, great times!

What follows now is some very christmasy pictures, I hope I don’t bore those of you who’ve already gladly moved on to the new year… There’s a lot of explications under the pictures again, so please click on them and then on “permalink” down to the right to see what I have to say – if you find that interesting.

Thanks to everyone in Helsinki, I love you!

Hope you all have a wonderful first week of the year!!