Helsinki, land of Vikings and something else

At your first sight, Helsinki is a not so colorful port city, specially if you come in the winter while there’s no snow. The cold weather and the lack ness of sunlight are many times a deadly combination, the reason for a big number of suicides (against the idea that many people still have that they do it because they have everything). Although I have to admit to you, the city is quite pleasant to be in. There are nice red fish markets by the square next to the port, making you see Helsinki as a land of fisherman. Of course it is much more than that, all of us know Finland to be one of the most developed countries in Europe, the home of Nokia but this can’t be seen in a first glance. There are no super modern Nokia public phones as I imagined to be, no ultra super skyscrapers dressed in glass and touching the sky, just a simple environment of people that are living there own measures and happy about it. No needs to show of and want to be the capital of the Universe. Their one line metro can tell you: we’re suomi and that’s just who we want to be.