Pink Vespa! And a pictorial tour of the neighbourhood.

[cimorene]

I walked outside this afternoon to go to the library and saw a pink Vespa parked with the bicycles in the yard! I called wax from the bridge to tell her about it. It's gorgeous and retro, with chrome and everything! So I took pictures of it, and then I wandered around and took pictures of other pretty, sun-soaked things in my neighbourhood.

A pink Vespa (off-brand, says wax) peeps coyly from behind the hedge.





Note blond suede seat.





This building, right behind the public sports park, might have a retirement home in it. Or the Red Cross offices.





A playhouse in one of the many neighbourhood playgrounds.





Balconies overlooking the river.





The nearest spot of riverbank to us looks directly over at Arken, the Faculty of Humanities' self-contained complex of renovated antique buildings around a gated courtyard and connected, now, with metal and glass walkways. The red brick building with the tower was a factory in the early 1800s; it's now the Humanities Library.





The boardwalk on our side of the river is almost completed.





Birches lining the riverbank.





A bit of walkway across the street from us with a little "not a through-walkway" sign. Except it totally is a through-walkway. Bitches. And I walk on it all the time, so hah.

Comments

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

What a pretty place.

I really want that Vespa. Alot.

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

How beautiful! How near are you to the river? And yes, I want that Vespa, too.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

omg, that is SO COOL!!!!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Keen!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

perdy. and man, your weather looks just like ours. except we don't have rivers here. just drizzles.

[shadows-in-mind.livejournal.com]

Turku, right? It's one of the prettiest cities I know in Finland. :3