Two weeks ago Alfonso kindly gave to us tickets to see a horse show in the Hartwall Arena. We could see a large variety of horses and shows. Spain has several centuries of tradition in horse breeding and training and already in the XVI century the Spanish Riding School in Viena (when Viena as well as Austria was part of the largest empire in world history: the Spanish empire naturally ;-) was created as the first Classical Dressage riding school in the world. So it was not suprising at all that Spanish horses were the most beautiful, elegant, equilibrated and skilful. However, it in undeniable that the acrobatics performed by some French riders were really breathtaking. After that we went to the city center to have lunch and then walk around the city center of Helsinki as two lonely hearts in a ghost city (saturday afternoon).
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