Looking for the Helsinki “professionals”

While there was still some sun left we have to leave home. The prices are amazingly high and it will be pretty hard to deal with when everyone is running around with the credit card at hand, even if it is just to get a beer. People here just don’t use paper money as they call it. The 1 and 2 euro cents coins disappeared from their currency and it’s easy to understand why. Although, the prices in supermarkets are not that high, at least compared with the Portuguese, what makes you think that, with a salary that starts with a 2 digit, there’s quality in suomi life. There’s a place where the ones known as the professionals go to have a drink. If you think about it, a 2 euros beer in Helsinki, outside a supermarket (that stops to sell any alcohol from 21h on) is something that no one would believe anymore. But they exist. And we found them...

Actually, alcoholism is here one of the worst problems and it’s not difficult to see it by the way people drink here, like there was no tomorrow. By the way, estonians complain a lot about the fins that come over on weekends to get cheap spirits and get wasted. Actually, further on in my travel I saw that when in Talinn where you can find this all-liquor tax-free markets, some of them right next to a sex shop to make the scenario complete. Though, all the time I was there in Helsinki I've seen no fights nor so wrong behaviors caused by alchool as you can see mostly all around western Europe, tanking Great Britain as an example. This alchoolism is somehow a mood that can get into you and can even be positive if it isn't taken to extreme all day drunkness.