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.