For the second day of our trip Monika suggested that we visit the Finnish National Library. This was not a destination we would normally have selected, but it was really a very interesting and recently restored building. The first room you enter has a magnificent dome surrounding which are beautifully decorated arches. Through a door is a three storey reading room. In the central tower Monika found a heavy read… …but Sophia found something rather lighter. Whilst Marina went back
Month: August 2016
Helsinki Trip – Day 1
Today we visited the Helsinki Science centre “Heureka” with Monika and Olivia. The science education value of this section was unclear, but it contained some fun activities. The first event on the list was curling, and here Olivia shows us her technique. Whilst Monica had a go at the sweeping task. Note that there was no actual ice and the stones ran on casters of some sort so the sweeping activity didn’t seem to make any difference. The next event