Travelog post for: TobiHH

This is the Kauppatori, the Market Square with the harbour. I saw two cruise ships! Those are Silja Serenade and Silja Symphony of Silja Line. My host swears she took a pic of me with a Viking Line cruise ship too but somehow it doesn't exist in the camera...

The Market Square was full of people selling stuff and food - and full of people buying them. It was fun to watch 

Oh, and in the 5th and 6th photo is the Presidential Palace! The building used to be a salt warehouse!  Later it was used by the Czar Alexander II (his statue was on the last update) and his family. During World War I the residence was converted into the Military Hospital of the Finnish Senate. In the beginning of Finland's independence it was renovated and re-furnished to become the Presidential Palace. The Independence Day Ball is held there every year - the predisent invites all sorts of famous and/or important people to the ball and the media talks about the dresses... The Palace has nearly 3,000 square metres of floor space so there's plenty of room to dance 

The president (Mrs. Tarja Halonen at the moment) stays in Kultaranta during the summer so there's no guard in front of the Palace now.