Helsinki, my beautiful summer city

I have not been writing for several months because I was thinking there is nothing interesting to write about my life. However many of my friends have asked me to write further.Many of them have never been in Helsinki not even in Finland, which gives me an opportunity to describe or report my city and my life here.
First of all, having visited so many places all over in the world on my last
journey and on many shorter or longer trips before, it has become clear to me that Helsinki will stay my hometown the rest of my life. I love to visit foreign countries and places but I am always happy to return here. There are cities like Hong Kong, Munich, Malaga etc. where I do have a lot of personal history with beautiful memories and unforgetable romancies, but Helsinki, where I was born in 1940, is my home.
Helsinki,which is often called " The White City of the North" or " The Daughter of Baltic Sea",was established year 1550 by the Swedish King Gustaf Wasa. That time until year 1809 Finland was a Swedish province. Russia did conquer Finland that year, and Finland became a grand duchy of Russia until year 1917, when strong hopes for independency finally were fullfilled. Meanwhile since year 1812 Helsinki had become the Capital of Finland, and Finnish an official language, instead of just Swedish and Russian.
Nowadays Helsinki is a modern cosmopolitan city with about 560,000 inhabitants(with neighborhood sleeping cities a metropoly of one million), surrounded by the sea and with many beautiful parks. The cultural life is very vivid all around the year with many international stars and celebrities visiting here. Only recently Celine Dion and Bruce Springsteen had their concerts here. Today Neil Young will fill an ice hockey
stadium, and soon we'll experience the visits of Mariza, Juanes, Leonard Cohen, Gloria Gaynor, Deep Purple and Moody Blues. A couple of days ago I listened Kris Kristofferson in the concert hall of Finlandia House.
Last week I was controlled by the doctors, and my heart was found fine, almost normal already. This means that I shall start to plan new adventures abroad, but not one year long ones anymore.
This summer here has been partly sunny and warm partly rainy and some degrees cooler but I have enjoyed my easy life here. Only once I took a speed boat to Tallinn in neighborhood Estonia to have lunch with two charming native ladies Sgrid and Kadri, my former business partners. In 5-Star Hotel Telegraf, in Tsaikovsky Restaurant I did enjoy one of the best meals and service of all my life. I can highly recommend this place to anybody.
Well, there is now nothing going on in my love life. The wings of my romance last year could not carry it anymore over long distancies, faraway places and the time.
I shall in future time to time write my diary. You are wellcome to make questions and I am always happy to get greetings. And do remember, should you come to visit Helsinki, I happen to be a very good guide!