Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴Käpylä Library
One of the more charming areas of #Helsinki. Lots of parks, and a mixture of wooden and simplistic but stylish stone buildings. It's also the location of the "Olympic Village", housing built entirely for the foreign athletes and their guests that were to compete in the 1940 Helsinki Olympics. As the #Olympics got canceled by the second world war, the village was later used as regular housing. There is also the picturesque Wood Käpylä, built in the 1920's and since declared protected as historically valuable.
The Käpylä library homepage boldly claims "Käpylä is simply the best", which may or may not mean the library itself. The original Käpylä library is one of the oldest in Helsinki, starting operation in 1926. In 1939 the library moved into its current building which was fully modernised in 2011.
During the 1950's Käpylä library became the home of the first music library in #Finland. Additionally it was home to things like the Urania philosophical club at those times. My previous visit to the library was some years ago with the kids when they were holding a robotics event. Times change, the library stays.
Links: Käpylä, Homepage, Strava
What did I get?
Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!. For my older daughter (again!). Though I have read this book already, it's probably one of my favourite #Discworld #books so far. We've actually got a competition with my older daughter on who will read through the whole official Discworld collection of books first. She was leading for a while but now I've taken the lead with 8 books down to her seven 💪