Post by chrish on Jan 25, 2010 23:03:23 GMT
Last weekend I went on a flying visit with EasyJet for the princely sum of £48 to Helsinki in Finland. It was, if I remember rightly, the first Capital City I ever learned when I was a wee nipper.
Still. Mid to late January. Nippy. The cheery Captain of the good Airbus EasyJet cheerfully announced that the current temperature at Vantaa Airport was -21C. Cold. It was like landing at Ice Station Zebra or Clint Eastwood trying to land the stolen Firefox on a ice flow to refuel from a Submarine. Boy's own stuff.
Still by yesterday it had warmed up to around -15c and I decided to get the number 3T Tram up to the Olympic Park which lies 10 minutes from the Central Railway station and right next door to the Opera or Ooppera in Finnish. I've finally found a Race who take more liberties with their vowels than the Kiwis!
So the Olympic Stadium. Built between 1934 and 1938 in order to host the 1940 Olympic Games, which was then given to Tokyo. But then cancelled. It finally hosted the 1952 Summer Olympic Games and it also hosted, in 1983, the first World Athletics Championships.
It was renovated in 1998 and now holds around 40,000.
As you can see. They're not going to play football on it for a while.
There's even a couple from 72 metre high tower. 2 euros to use the stair and I wasn't stupid enough to take the stairs!
Still. Mid to late January. Nippy. The cheery Captain of the good Airbus EasyJet cheerfully announced that the current temperature at Vantaa Airport was -21C. Cold. It was like landing at Ice Station Zebra or Clint Eastwood trying to land the stolen Firefox on a ice flow to refuel from a Submarine. Boy's own stuff.
Still by yesterday it had warmed up to around -15c and I decided to get the number 3T Tram up to the Olympic Park which lies 10 minutes from the Central Railway station and right next door to the Opera or Ooppera in Finnish. I've finally found a Race who take more liberties with their vowels than the Kiwis!
So the Olympic Stadium. Built between 1934 and 1938 in order to host the 1940 Olympic Games, which was then given to Tokyo. But then cancelled. It finally hosted the 1952 Summer Olympic Games and it also hosted, in 1983, the first World Athletics Championships.
It was renovated in 1998 and now holds around 40,000.
As you can see. They're not going to play football on it for a while.
There's even a couple from 72 metre high tower. 2 euros to use the stair and I wasn't stupid enough to take the stairs!
I thought you'd been to Halifax (Yorks) when I first saw that photo....................would have probably cost you more though!