Kallio, Alppiharju and Sörnäinen

Smell the air. Familiar scents include the local spice factory's coffee roastery and last night’s spilt beer. Many students live here and diverse languages happily mix with different dialects of Finnish, a food aid line stretches out next to a trendy wine bar, sex shops and vegetarian eateries sit side by side, and for a moment everything seems possible. Bars and restaurants bring together many kinds of Helsinkians and the liveliness of some beer houses might be, hmm, overwhelming for some visitors. The high-rising Ferris wheel of the Linnanmäki Amusement Park reminds of a joyful mood even on the darkest day of the year.