NEW POST UP ON THE PRUFROCKS DILEMMA BLOG: In Helsinki From the post: Tourism is fantasy, only fleetingly engaged with any semblance of the real. I don’t like being a tourist, yet there is often little choice. The question is how to avoid the worst of tourism and get beneath a place’s skin. Helsinki, or so it seemed to me, helped us along, for it went about its business and simply absorbed camera-toting gawkers in its midst. The sun was out, summer had begun, and, come early evening, café tables filled with working people in conversation over a bottle of wine. . . . As is true of the best vacations, we went in with a handful of set ideas and came back with a bounty of memorable, unlooked-for impressions.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:50:31 +0000
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