illlustrated by Virpi Talvitie
On leap night everything is upside down: the city does not belong to the people, but to a tram which flies through the city like the stars in the sky.
The Tram turns to Katajanokka, where the icebreaker Tarmo has engaged Sisu, speeds into Töölö, where a horse chestnut shakes nonsense (hölynpöly) around and makes people laugh.
The tram listens to the birds at Linnunlaulu and continues to Hietaniemi, where the beauty of the cemetery was dark and melancoly. At Ullanlinna the tram celebrates with the robust rat and the formless pug and in Käpylä the tram meets cone cows.
The dark and melancholy beauty of Hietaniemi cemetery. |
The story is full of delicious details, such as the horse chestnut shaking nonsense (hölypöly) instead of pollen (siitepöly), roteva rotta(robust rat) and muodoton mopsi (formless pug). I definitely look at Helsinki a different way now.
Tram in Töölö |
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