World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Seven

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel

Bikes of Helsinki

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

Baskets filled with goodies
Hats, trousers and hoodies
Maybe even a few cookies
Because it’s time to play hookie

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World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Six

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel

Bikes of Helsinki

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

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Bikes with motors are fine
When you want to avoid that grind
But a manual pedaller
May be a great leveller
When your pulse needs elevating
And your blood, circulating

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World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Five

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel

Bikes of Helsinki

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

Where there is a lamppost
There is a will
The best parking host
For a bike to stay still

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World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Four

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel

Bikes of Helsinki

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

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City bikes of yellow
For every gal and fellow
Driving by and waving hello
Before we break for jell-o

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World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Three

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel

Bikes of Helsinki

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“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

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I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
Snow, hail or rain trickle
I am none too fickle
I want to ride my bike

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Queen – Bicycle Race 

Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday Four

Posted in Seat Sunday
Photography /Poetry

“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?” Nicholson Baker

Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday 

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There’s time to spare
And a cup of coffee to share
In the little cafe
By the Esplanade

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Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday Three

Posted in Seat Sunday
Photography /Poetry

“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?” Nicholson Baker

Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday 

Opening the archives
Storing away the files
Of possible tales
For later to be shared
In a little cafe
By the Esplanade

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Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday Two

Posted in Seat Sunday
Photography /Poetry

“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?” Nicholson Baker

Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday 

Making a play
From my hideaway
People watching
A glimpse of their lives
Here and there catching
In the little cafe
By the Esplanade

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Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday One

Posted in Seat Sunday
Photography /Poetry

“Haven’t you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?” Nicholson Baker

Kiosk Cafe for Seat Sunday 

Rain or shine
Seated just fine
In a little cafe
By the Esplanade

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World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki Twenty-Two

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Tales /Travel

World Wide Wednesday in Helsinki

Details of Helsinki

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself”
~ Matthew Karsten

Windows

A window to nowhere
Separating this and elsewhere
If the window is opened wide
Will the two worlds, collide?

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