This is gonna be one of these "I <3 Helsinki" -posts, because I just can't help myself but loving this city so much. This fall until today there were a lot of bears here. It's an exhibition that started in Berlin in 2002 and now tours around the world. Now all the UN countries present a life-sized fiberglass bear painted by an artist from each counry. The Buddy Bears hold hands symbolically for peace, international understanding and tolerance among the nations, cultures and religions of this world. Cute and heart warming! My absolute favourites are the sunny Albanian bear and the psychedelic Dutch bear.
Oh, and this same day when I saw these bears the first time, we met one Greek/New Zealander/(??!?!) guy via CouchSurfing with my friend Agi. Couch Surfing is such a splendid concept, but I've never really used it myself. But this guy was really fun, we just went to drink hot chocolate and walked around the city until he continued his loooong trip around the world the same evening. Plus we made him buy a lot of candy and ended up eating almost all of them ourselves :)
I was also in some crazy 80's/50's/Mario Bros (???!?!) party in Hungary to where my CouchSurfer friend got invited by some CouchSurfer. Just like Buddy Bears, CouchSurfing unites nations and their people around the world :)
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