Libre Magazine

Sights of Helsinki, Finland. (Photography)

Helsinki is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is 569,892 (31 March 2008, making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin. Helsinki spreads around [...]

Where the Streets Have Strange Names

My first ever introduction to Finland , never mind Helsinki , dates back to the early 1980s in the back of my grandfather’s car on the way to Kiltonga Nature Reserve just outside Belfast . The purpose of our visit was to feed the resident ducks or ‘Drakey Lakeys’ as I called them. These rubbernecking [...]