arriving to Helsinki. Today we recieved from the City of Helsinki all the material (info, gift, pen) that on Thursday we will be packing to the conference bags. Still a lot to do, but fortunately the "To do" -list seems a little shorter than a week ago.
In the picture you see here is the University Main
Building. It faces the Senate Square which is a square where from time to time concerts and different kinds of happenings take place. For people of Helsinki it is the place where we welcome the New Year.
Just two blocks away is the Market Sqauare that during summer is open also in the afternoons. The time of strawberries is just beginning in Finland and if you want to have short break during one of the conference coffee breaks or during lunch hour to taste them, this is the one place to go and to see. In the centre of the Senate Square is a statue in honor of one of the Russian tsars and at the market square in the very middle there is a statue in honor of a wife of one the tsars. Those remind us Finns of the Russian era in our history. The start of the Russian era was exactly 200 years ago and it lasted until 1917 when Finland gained independence.
In the maps that we have included in the conference programme you may wonder why some names of the session or meeting rooms are in different languages. We have chosen always to use the name that appears on the door of that particular room. That way you know when you have reached the right room. There is also some logic behind the room names. For instance rooms on the newer side of the building are all in Finnish (like Sali 6). Also it is good to note that in Finland we have no ground floor so the first floor is the one that you enter from the street level.
Welcome to find more about our ways! See you soon1
Katju
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