Finnish Design Day

We’ve enjoyed window shopping the intriguing designs of Finnish home goods and today finally entered the stores. Prices are eye watering but the products are delightful. We took in the noon organ concert at the Lutheran cathedral and spent some time afterwards with the church warden asking about the painting over the altar and the layout of the sanctuary. He was a nice young man who was stumped by some of Tom’s questions and decided he needs to learn more himself.

We spent the afternoon at the Museum of Architecture and Design. The exhibits took us decade by decade through social, economic, cultural, and architectural changes in n the country. It was just what we had hoped. It appears that the Finns have determined that they want a central city that is a mix of office, commercial, and residential, sometimes in the same building and other places in the same block.

Supper was at a Nepalese restaurant — shrimp salad with tomato and cucumber, delicious dishes of chicken with cashews, and curried prawns, chicken in coriander sauce, and lamb, chicken, and prawns in spinach cream sauce. They also had the best naan bread I’ve ever eaten.

We need to get up relatively early tomorrow to catch the ferry to Talinn, Estonia and further adventures.Read more