Helsinki Finland June 13th - 15th
Land of the midnight sun...
Helsinki is a little too far
south to get midnight sun,
exactly. It just gets sort of
dusky and bluish for two
hours and then starts to
get bright again.
But it's still amazing.
I intended to go there just
for a holiday, but ended up
working instead.
Still, it was a media
conference hosted ny
Nokia, and they're always
fun.
A word on the images -- I
took about half of these
pictures with a new
cameraphone. It's not quite
as good as shooting with a
camera and the difference
in quality is obvious. Still, a
one megapixel digital
camera on a phone ain't
bad.
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The sun setting at 11.03pm,
viewed from Klippan Island in
Helsinki Bay
The Finnish flag, one of my
favourites
9pm on a slow boat to Klippan
island for dinner
And of evening booze cruises...
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Me on a night cruise
around Helsinki's
array of bays and
harbours
Karlin, Brian and
Gillian Bell
scrutinise their
roaming services
Jackie Brannigan of
Nokia Ireland, Karlin
and I, sipping Lapin
Kulta on the boat to
Klippan Island
Karlin Lillington
of the Irish
Times and
Brian Skelly of
Siliconrepublic.
com
Steven and GIllian
emerge from dinner
for a fag-break
Karlin Lillington, the biggest
self-confessed tech anorak I
know in the media, tries out her
new cameraphone on a Finnish
evening
From the air
(I'm an anorak for pictures from planes...)
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View from the plane of an uninhabited archipelago
of islands between Finland and Sweden
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The coastline
around Stockholm,
Sweden
The Rolls Royce
engine on our
FinnAir plane
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