So here's a bit of a photo dump for you from the remainder of Saturday 27/6. This was when I started to get a bit hazy and fucked up from the jet lag etc and wasn't entirely sure what I was doing... i.e. I really thought there was a huge seagull head on the art museum.
100% chance these guys don't talk anymore:
Big pile:
I am so ridiculously sentimental, so yeah, back to the bear park (Karhupuisto). I reckon the first time I came here, you couldn't take pictures with your phone (I mean, 'one couldn't... with one's').
Bear park iconography is so cool
The kiosk, which was definitely functioning the first time I came here, now looks pretty redundant. There is another one diagonally opposite in the park now which seems very upmarket.
They have pop-up-pocket-parked the street alongside the bear park (the southern section of Fleminginkatu) in a far more attractive way than this picture suggests.
Next stop was a wild agricultural allotment area, though purely by accident. My plan was to go to Arabia (again) and walk through the botanic garden area to Käpylä. So, I was almost there and my phone said to get out at the next stop. I did. However what I didn't realise until I'd got off was that the tram stopped not at the stop but it stopped because some city workers had blocked the narrow road that the tram was on (single track). Presumably the driver was going to discuss this with them. A Melbourne tram would never let its passengers out between stops regardless of the reason, but this wasn't a Melbourne tram. So I started walking in the right direction (a little knowledge is a dangerous thing) but what I didn't realise was there was still a railway line to cross before I could go freely in the direction I was planning. Google maps agreeably set me a course and it also didn't realise that there was a railway in the way of where I wanted to go, or at least, it thought there was a bridge or an access way or something when there actually isn't. So I wandered randomly for a while in this wonderful agricultural allotment area not entirely appreciating that there was only one way in and out.
So OMG there is a allotment garden museum here - I will definitely visit. Open Sunday for two hours.
There is no problem in the world that can't be solved with chinese paper lanterns.
Except the problem of walking into this fucking sunlight, that can only be solved with sunglasses, which I had left back at the hotel. So by this time I had a bit of a battery problem - I guess I'm putting extra pressure on my phone here.
I was slightly worried that I would not be able to get to the hotel without my battery running out. So I put my phone in airport mode and took a photo of the google map, and tried to follow that. It worked ok, actually. But of course the time for taking photos was over (sorry kids).
Except for the rare occasion where you see something so amazing you have to record it. What on earth is going on in this picture?!
As for this house... too perfect.
A little bit of Käpylä magic, and this isn't even really a nice bit.
That's quite a lot of walking for someone who hasn't slept for two days! Now it's 7am and insanely it actually appears that we are prohibited from leaving the hotel before 8. Is that legal? I guess, like the Melbourne trams thing, I have to remind myself that I'm not in Melbourne anymore. Here's the view out my window.
More later!
