It was cold but dry when we arrived Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday we awoke (at 5am) to a wet, dull, cold, overcast day. And it remained until mid afternoon.
Despite this the view from our hotel room is simply stunning- a complete panorama of the harbour with ferries to Stockholm and Tallinn.
Many of the buildings in this area are art nouveau which greatly interests Brenda
The weather has not stopped us enjoying ourselves. Mainly indoors two exhibitions and shopping. In the evening we went to a Helsinki Philharmonic concert at Finland Hall- a very impressive building.
The concert was advertised as including Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings but instead they played a string serenade by Dvorak before the main piece a Symphony by Josef Suk. Suk is a little known Czech composer. Elements of nepotism he was the son in law of Dvorak and the piece was a tribute to his father in law and his (Suk’s) wife who died tragically young. Enjoyable but Brenda says not outstanding. My untutored ear is incapable of such refined judgements
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