After the air conditioned shopping centre we want to an air conditioned Irish Pub, had a few drinks and continued to an air conditioned Thai restaurant.
In Finland, every kind of outdoors festivity tends to be an excuse to get wasted. I'm not certain if public drinking is banned here but we saw very few beer bottles and not a single teenager crying/vomiting/crawling/all above. Also people don't aim at by passers with the fireworks. In any case, the big fireworks at the mall were great and atmosphere very relaxed and jolly.
-Tuoppi
