When my first summer car, Siiri, failed in August 2020 in the middle of nowhere, I managed to get her to the parking lot of this store. The next morning a local guy asked if he could buy it for 50 euros, took it, cooked a lunch for me and then we started day drinking.Continue reading “My Summer Car Was Really Made Of All These Things”
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Mystery Camp
During that visit to my home town I realized that the unthinkable had happened. My godson’s father had become somewhat of an urban explorer himself. He had been taking a walk outside town with their kids and dog and told me that there was something he wanted to show me. So we loaded me andContinue reading “Mystery Camp”
Behind The Scenes Part I
As I said in my previous post, I’m a sort of a railroad nerd, but not very interested in the steam era. What interests me the most is the post war era from the early 1950’s all the way to the 1980’s before my birth. What really intrigued me in Haapamäki was not the steamContinue reading “Behind The Scenes Part I”
Exploring New Territories
What is better than autumn leaves? Autumn leaves in mid-October. And what’s more leaves of a maple. I was used to walking through huge piles of them in my childhood home town, but up north where I spent the past 10 years, were very few maples. This is my colleague taking a shortcut in aContinue reading “Exploring New Territories”