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Fresh Strawberries all over the city! Unfortunately the most of them are from Spain!
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The beautiful Esplanade is the most prestigious street in Helsinki. When the sun comes out, people enjoy to see and being seen.
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This is the market square where you can buy produce and knickknack.
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This is a very important day for Finland. It will be in the spot of the world.
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That’s what people first think, when they think of Finland: Reindeer and Santa Claus!
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People are already reserving their seats on the steps. A gorgeous atmosphere will be in the city tonight.
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Fans from Sweden have arrived. They will support The Ark tonight!
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A typical Finnish couple with their poodle.
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This is Jasmine. She sang the Finnish entry in 1996 in Olso “Niin kaunis on taivas”. It was a kind of folk song with a guitar, which did not receive many points, but people loved it later on.
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This is one of the CatCat sisters, who represented Finland with “Bye Bye Baby” in Dublin in 1994. This song was accompanied by an orchestra. Many people complained that the orchestra distroyed the modernity of the song and a demoband would have been more succesive.
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Ami Aspelund is happy that the Eurovision Song Contest has arrived in Finland for the first time. She told us here personal experience from her own performance back in 1983 in Munich.
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Monica Aspelund, the sister of Ami had the huge mega hit in Finland with “Lapponia”. She is now living in Florida. And indeed she reminds us a bit of the Golden Girls.
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Katria Helena and Kojo! Both are former singers for Finland in the ESC. What a loveley pair they are.
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That’s a good question. Many people here in Helsinki and all over Europe were very disappointed that Andorra did not qualify. The song would have scored well in the final.
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The Danish representative DQ is still shining, but you can obviously see her disappointment.She was great and would have deserved to qualify.
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The winner’s press conference. Marija from Serbia’s happiest day in her entire life.
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Alcohol is no solution: the British and the Andorran could not hide their frustration.
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The funny girl, who entertained the audience during the show. Very funny indeed!
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One of the few singers on the After Show Party: Roger Cicero.
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