{"id":8011,"date":"2024-07-27T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapl-kiste.de\/wp\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:57:08","slug":"helsinki-the-riff-and-fifty-vintage-shops-with-cool-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapl-kiste.de\/wp\/en\/2024\/07\/27\/helsinki-the-riff-and-fifty-vintage-shops-with-cool-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki – ‚The Riff‘ and Fifty Vintage Shops with Cool Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The capital of Finland is built on the mainland and 330 large and small islands and is affectionately known as the summer capital. We make ourselves comfortable at the Rastilla city campsite in the south-east of the city. A site surrounded by greenery with a metro connection and a beach.
If we had had a plan, then this city was our destination when we had left home at the beginning of June. Today, 3600 kilometers further on, we have arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camping Rastilla<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Equipped with a 24-hour ticket for the metro, streetcar, bus and boat, it is off into the city.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Helsinki is a refreshing, diverse capital, enlivened by idiosyncratic, sometimes dazzling people. A wide variety of architecture from different decades and the result of the historical power play between Russia and Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If Helsinki has a landmark, then it is this cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helsinki’s Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Uspensky Orthodox Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can walk around Helsinki on a 130-kilometer trail which means that you often walk along the water’s edge and often have to swim or take one of the ferries or boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The large icebreakers are waiting here for the winter. They are used to keep the Baltic Sea ports free of ice. The most powerful ship, the Polaris, has 30,000 hp and is able to break ice up to 1.8 meters thick.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The main station: the Ukrainian flag flies not only here<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Summer sales, shopping on Helsinki’s shopping mile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Sizes for everyone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Mumin and Marimekko, the Finns‘ favorite brands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the fifty second hand stores. In one of it \u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u2026 Astrid bought this dress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caf\u00e9 M\u00e4tsapaahtimo, on the grounds of the oldest psychiatric hospital Lapinlahden L\u00e4hde in Finland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Laphinladen L\u00e4hde 1841<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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bad bad boy (Tommy Toija)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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The Riff, cool music pub where we spent our Helsinki evenings with Karhu on tap (tip from our ferry acquaintance)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 1952 Olympic Stadium receives the award for the most beautiful Olympic Stadium in the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The 75-meter-high tower is the landmark of the Olympic Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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The Olympic sports facilities are all together and in operation: football pitches, ice rink, swimming pool \u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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We hope you enjoy the sporting games in Paris and we are cheering you on from here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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