April Snowstorm in Helsinki ❄️

Hello! Today we will take April snow walk through the Alppikylä district in Helsinki. Alppikylä (Alpine village) is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the Tattarisuo neighborhood and the Helsinki–Lahti Highway (E75). The former building stock of Alppikylä is wooden houses with large gardens. The area got its name when the undulating terrain merged with the Alps in people’s minds. The old road north of Helsinki curved past the high cliff of Jakomäki, which is also called Alppikallio (Alpine rock). At its foot was a village that came to be called Alppikylä. In the 19th century, a bus passed from Alppikallio from Helsinki to Vantaa’s Hakkila, where the route merged with the King’s Road from Turku to Vyborg. There is a rocky milestone along the Alppikyläntie from the old thoroughfare. The milestone and the four pines nearby are protected by a town plan. According to the readings in the milestone, the distance to