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Mathieu in Helsinki part II

Nice evening tasting GLÖGI

On Sunday evening Mathieu, Radek and I went to Helsinki city center to see the Christmas lights and decoration. Today was The Opening of the Christmas Street in Aleksanterinkatu. This street is the most commercial here, full of shops and crazy people everyday.


Aleksanterinkatu

The opening ceremony was at one, we were late, about 1 hour ;), so we decided to walk around. We went walking to Senate Square and we came into one of the best shops in Helsinki, talking about nice gifts.



The outside temperature today was about -5 ºC, we were freezing, but we drank Glögi for free in this nice shop.



Glögi is a Scandinavian holiday drink that is the nectar of the Dice. Yo have to drink it hot, with some dry grapes and special Christmas cookies.



It was great and we came back again to drink more one hour later, after visit some places and walk along kauppatori.





There are two kinds of cookies that you should eat with glögi: piparkakku and joulutorttu.



Today we ate Piparkakku, with cinnamon, nice taste. I strongly recommend these cookies. Piparkakku are bake ginger cookies.



I haven't tried joulutorttu yet but I'll do, it looks like delicious.

If you want to know more about finnish food: Suomi Ruoka

Sorry but it's in finnish I didn't find other so good in English :( But you can check this great web if your are looking for recipes or ingredients:
fineli.fi

I found a special figure of a dog that will be happy somebody :)



And after all it was time to say Mathieu goodbye, he came back Jyväskylä at 18:30.

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1. Como siempre, insuperable chicos, muchas gracias por atender mi peticion, y joe abrigaos porque -5º es mucha tela de frío. Saludos

   Comment of puck73 time ago 4 años y 49 meses

2. Moi!! I´m glad that you have tried some Finnish Christmas specialities already!! I will try to pass you some recipies soon so you can try making them on your own.. Or I can show you the next time I come to Helsinki!? ;) I hope it will be soon, maybe for some Christmas shopping... Oh, try visiting those Christmas markets,or -other happenings, there you can find some really Finnish presents from local producers.. :)

   Comment of Mari time ago 4 años y 48 meses

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