The first of May was approaching, and that only meant one thing. It was time to agree, when I would get my summer car back from its winter storage. For the first time ever I would spend two consecutive summers driving the same car. Quite a feat, as my summer cars have always been from the 1990’s.
I booked a train to Eastern Finland, where Alice was stored, called a childhood friend to drive me to the small village where it was located and set off.
And there she is, the World’s dearest wreck. 31 years of age by now she started right off, when the battery was reconnected.
I drove straight off to my former home town, where I was still spending a lot of time. That’s where I planned to start my adventures of 2023.
And what a summer it was to be. The Central Association of Finnish Photographic Organizations, Finnfoto, had granted me a scolarship for my photographing tour of 2023 in the previous autumn. I set my goal to 100 new entries this year. That would take my total number to 321. But I was still far from 100. I only had one so far.
I started the adventures by heading to see how a familiar place was doing.
This here is a former community college, which I had visited in 2014, 2016, and 2019. Demolition had started way back in 2020, but it seems that things weren’t going that well.
In fact almost nothing had happened since my previous visit in 2022. Only the explanations had changed. It looks like it wasn’t going that well.
But let’s start the adventure and see, how my fourth summer of touring Finland would treat me.