The streets here are all made into Xmas style. There are a lot of extra lights and all stores have commercials in the windows to lure more customers in.
The core downtown in Helsinki is here, where Stockmann and the 3 blacksmiths are. Usually when meeting up with friends, people tend to meet under the Stockmann sign because when the year 2000 was on its way there was a 5 year countdown clock before the actual Y2K came.
So people used to say "Hey, let's meet under the clock" and it's still like that. My friend wanted to meet under the "watch", nothing changes back home....
Alexandersgatan, also known as the Xmas Street in December
The 3 blacksmiths (3 Seppää)
Stockmann (The downtown of the downtown)
Espa, the park which is full of drinking teenagers in the summer...Including me 10+ years ago :P
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