Yet another familiar location. This is the small village store in the middle of nowhere featured earlier in 2022. As there is something looking like a camera next to the open door in the right corner of the building facing the road, I decided to approach from the back. I tried and tried to findContinue reading “Still Didn’t Feel Like Posing”
Category Archives: Adventures
Missed It Again
Having again read the news, I heard of a new elementary school built in a village, which former was a center of a small municipality. The building of the new school in such small places almost always means the demolition of the old school. And again I felt sorry about the beautiful old 1950’s schoolContinue reading “Missed It Again”
Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II
Next to the other store was a smaller old business building, which already appears on aerial photos from 1948. According to Google Maps photos from 2011 its upstairs apartments still looked inhabited. The other side. It’s possible that even the downstairs business premises had been converted into apartments at some point. After business use ended,Continue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II”
Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I
This time I find myself by the old main road in a small regional town. My friend, who has tipped me about several locations in Finland was visiting her relatives in the area and told me about an old store, which sat abandoned. The main building and storefront were clearly abandoned, but there might haveContinue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part I”
Trainspotting Failed
You already know the story, as I’ve told it so many times. I travel a lot by train, and I mean a lot. Until the spring of 2023 I did it weekly, and I accumulated around 60 000 kilometers on the tracks yearly. After that the mileage dramatically decreased, as I stopped going to myContinue reading “Trainspotting Failed”
Yet Again Unchanged
Moving on to the next location, which I have already previously documented. This time it’s about the railway station residential area, I photographed in 2022. Since then two houses have been demolished and several renovated, the one I managed to enter still stands empty. Along with the one abandoned one still standing, which I didn’tContinue reading “Yet Again Unchanged”
Looks Like A Write-Off
The following yearly check up was to a former mental asylum, which I had discovered back in 2021. I visited again in 2022 only to find out, that the former staff apartments had found new inhabitants. Since then it had been on the news, that the owner plans Airsoft games to be played in theContinue reading “Looks Like A Write-Off”
Another Result Of Trainspotting
It was another day in the life of an an urban explorer and it looks like it was beginning with freshly made eggs. Just kidding. I was actually approaching another house, which I’ve seen through train windows. It was right next to a very small regional railway station, which closed decades ago. The village remainedContinue reading “Another Result Of Trainspotting”
The Doors Would Never Open
The following location from my neverending Excel. It is the village store featured here for the first time in photos from 2022. According to the sign in the window, the place is still for sale. No buyers have appeared, though. It looks like even the for sale sign has lost its hope. This end ofContinue reading “The Doors Would Never Open”
At Least The Soil Is On Sale
Welcome yet to another familiar location. This here is the co-operative store featured earlier in 2020. Maybe this view is more familiar. How can there be trees growing on the balcony? The building seen from the other side. And the back of the building. There’s been another building attached to this part of it, justContinue reading “At Least The Soil Is On Sale”