My former boss has a Midsummer tradition. Yearly their family and a family they know go to my boss’ summerplace to eat, bath sauna, swim and chill. And in the past years we have had an even stranger tradition: I crash in the middle of this tradition. After visiting the town hall, I called themContinue reading “I’ll Be Back After The Sauna Part II”
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Exploring With A Landlady Part V
The final location in this city. It was originally a small apartment building built in 1947, where workers of the nearby textile mill lived. It originally featured six apartments before being converted into an office building for the textile mill’s personnel department. Since 1993 it has provided working spaces for artists. In bad condition, aContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part V”
Exploring With A Landlady Part IV
After the mass factory we drove to the other side of town to the following endangered landmark. This here is a former textile mill, which served as a center of arts and culture after factory use ended. There was a theatre, rooms for dance practice and workspaces for artists. They were evicted, because this hugeContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part IV”
Exploring With A Landlady Part III
The following location was again a part of important Finnish industrial history. It was the mass production facility of a company producing tiles used for instance in floors, facades and bathrooms. Built in 1913, it is the oldest known building in Finland, which has been made of reinforced concrete. Production in the area ended inContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part III”
Exploring With A Landlady Part II
So, my first location of the day. This is the former sailor school featured previously in photos from 2021, pretty much nothing had changed since then. It was coupled up in the same detail plan suggestion as the previously featured school, and despite again being considered regionally important, was also destined for demolition. Not forContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part II”
Exploring With A Landlady Part I
All the way until the previous spring I had still visited my old home town weekly, although I had moved away for almost four years ago. For the first few years I slept mainly on trains travelling back and forth, the pandemic also caused some loger times, during which I didn’t travel at all. ButContinue reading “Exploring With A Landlady Part I”
A Doomed Area Part II
Going up the hill from the three row houses featured in the previous post were a house and a cottage. The house had originally housed higher ranking mine company staff. After that it had become a clubhouse for the local sports association. Their main field was right behind this hill. The place was in aContinue reading “A Doomed Area Part II”
A Doomed Area Part I
Once again my tireless news reading paid off. I had read about an old, 1940’s built residential area for miners, which the mining company wanted to demolish. The reasoning was, that the buildings, which had been abandoned since the late 1980’s or early 1990’s were lacking basic things like bathrooms, and protection regulations didn’t allowContinue reading “A Doomed Area Part I”
A Small Success
Back at a familiar location. This is the factory workers’ court featured earlier in photos from 2020 and 2022. This is basically what Tour de Finland 2023 was all about. Visiting a lot of familiar places trying to see, if there were possible entries. There were a total of three buildings. In the first pictureContinue reading “A Small Success”
Tour De Finland 2023
It was the day before midsummer eve. I had packed all my belongings and was ready to go. A five week summer holiday was awaiting, and I had a clear plan. For the first two weeks I would be touring Southwestern and Western Finland all the way up to Oulu. Then I would spend aContinue reading “Tour De Finland 2023”