Back to the city centre

Our walk back to the city centre took us past a large number of modern buildings. The first was the Finlandia building, a large white minimalist style like the Oslo opera house, but currently spoilt by large amounts of building work. The rest, like this one in the photo were all colours of glass and steel. The rest of the city is made up of quite tall imposing 19th century buildings that remind me of Russia, if my very limited knowledge of architecture (and Russia) is at all accurate. The city seems to have been built by plan with streets pointing out from the central station. In fact almost anywhere you go you seem to get a view of the station just around a corner. The city centre is small but with big buildings and wide streets, all supporting dedicated lanes for trams, more for cycles and then wide pavements. Between all these are the standard roads with frequent bus services. However sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between each lane and it's easy to find yourself standing in the middle of a tram junction. Locals wisely wait for every pedestrian signal while we can't avoid the temptation of crossing when there's no traffic.