Monday, January 6, 2014

Yesterday at the market Eilen torilla


Muutamia kuvia torilta eilen. Sää on ollut sateisen harmaata, ja ensin aloin kirjoittaa, että epätavallisen lämpimänä, mutta ennen viime vuosien lumitalvia, talvet kyllä etelärannikolla olivat useammin lumettomia tai vähälumisia kuin runsaslumisia pakkastalvia. Ensi viikonloppuna tähän lumettomuuteen kai tulee muutos ja sää kylmenee. Säällä ei ole ollut myyntiin vaikutusta suuntaan tai toiseen silloin kun isoin osa asiakkaista on turisteja. Me tietysti toivomme sellaisia turisteja jotka arvostavat puhdasta villaa joko valmiina tuotteina tai sitten lankoina, ja toivomme että erityisesti neulojat löytävät kojumme:) Ja mukavasti muutamat suomalaisetkin vakioasiakkaamme käyvätkin katsomassa ja ostamassa lankoja, kiitos heille.

IN ENGLISH
Here are some pictures from the market yesterday morning. The weather has been grey and rainy, and I was going to write unusually warm for this time of year, but then started thinking that what the usual weather is like, and many times in the south coast of Finland the we haven't had much snow (unlike north of Finland). The past few winters have been unusually snowy (really, and too long) and cold, this is more what the weather is many times here in the beginning of January. I had hoped for the mild winter to continue, but it seems it's getting colder and snow by the end of the week. The weather doesn't affect the sales when most of the customers are tourists who are here only for a short time. Naturally we hope for tourists who appreciate all wool and that knitters find our booth:) Of course there are some regular Finnish customers as well, which we appreciate very much.


Tässä muutama yleiskuva, mitkä on otettu web kameran kuvista torin laidalta.

IN ENGLISH
Here are some pictures from web camera by the market, so you see how the market is by the sea and by the harbor. The big cruise ships go to Stockholm and Tallinn also in the winter, and in the summer there are several more cruise ships which come here. The market is also within the walking distance from the center of Helsinki and all the big shops. In the winter the wind may be quite cold from the sea and it is good that my husband tolerates more cold than me:-), but in the summer this is a very beautiful place and the breeze from the sea is nice then.


Talvella myyjiä on paljon vähemmän kuin kesällä ja kaikki myyjät ovatkin talvisaikaan keskellä toria olevan patsaan Espan puiston puoleisella puolella. Tavallisesti myyjiä ei ole arkipäivisin kuin muutama (mekään emme ole arkisin talvella) ja lauantaisinkin enintään saman verran kuin nyt loppiaisaikaan. Kesällä meidän vakituinen myyntipaikkamme on tuolla patsaasta Usbenskin katedraalia kohti vasemmalle, kadun varressa, mutta nyt talvella meillä ei ole vakituista paikkaa vaan joka kerran koju voi olla hiukan eri kohdassa. Tosin myyjiä on sen verran vähän, että varmaan meidät aina kuitenkin löytää helposti.

IN ENGLISH
In the winter there are lot less sellers than in the summer and all the booths are close together nearer to Esplandi park. In the week days there are only a few booths (not us) and even in Saturdays there are the same amount of sellers at the most as in these pictures. In the summertime our permanent place is behind the big statue in the middle of the market, to the left from it, towards Uspenski Cathedral , by the street. In the winter we have no permanent place but there are not so many booths that you can't find us easily, I hope.



7 comments:

  1. That kind of weather would make me rush to buy a cap and mittons from you! Wish you much success and a warm cup of chocolate.

    Diane

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  2. Here in New England, we've been having February since sometime in November.
    I love your market, and wish I could visit!

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  3. Thank you:)
    Wool is so warm even when it is rainy weather.
    Quinn, I have seen in the news that you have had the coldest year in a very long time, snow and all, while here it has been not so bad this year. Last year was the opposite: here very cold and too much snow and behind the Atlantic warm winter.

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  4. i love that market! too bad the wooden spoons now are for tourists and not really useful spoons like the ones i bought in '75.

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  5. Hello, I bought last sunday beuatiful pure nature color wool and I'm really like this yarn so much. I also like your mittens they are beautiful. Perhaps I'll order them. Hopefully it is not a problem to ship them to Holland.
    Greetings Helen

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  6. Thank you:)

    Yes, we can ship to almost anywhere, it is not a problem. My husband remembers you and says to say hi.

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  7. Thanks for posting pics of the market and the sea side. I can feel myself almost there. Here in SE Ohio U.S., the temps reached a -20 degrees below zero(wind chill) on Monday. Today is Saturday and a balmy 50 degrees and raining. Happy New Year.

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