In the early days of June my bosses sent me to yet another business trip to Eastern Finland. I was to write two articles, one about a company and one about a construction project.
I started early in the morning and drove my summer car to the company, interviewed the CEO and continued to the city where the construction project was being carried out. As that interview was only going to be the following morning, I checked in to a hotel.
As it so happened, my friend was doing her summer internship in this town. Like the previous summer, she jumped in and we headed towards new abandonments.
And it didn’t take very long for us to find one. I had seen it through a train window many times.
And here it is. As the building was located inside the fence of the local rail yard, I figured, that it must have housed railroad staff.
The only way in was through a window. It brought us straight into a kitchen.
“I am really depressed, but maybe I’ll heal if it’s meant to be”.
This is heartbreaking.
Looks like a toilet door to me.
As the windows were blocked, it was fairly dark inside.
The place has been abandoned for a long time. Graffiti is visible on the windows way back on Google Maps photos from 2009.
The original fireplace was still there.
There was a big silver graffiti in one of the dark rooms.
Another shut window. Janna has tagged the radiator.
Heading towards the light. The washing machine isn’t that old.
The porch and the main entrance.
And finally the kitchen again.
A crudely drawn ladybug on the wall.
And finally the cottage again from the outside. Although there was a small fire in the house in 2024, it seems to be still standing.