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”
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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”
Sometimes They’ve Vanished While You’ve Been Gone
Like I’ve already stated numerous times, I’ve been touring Finland so much by now, that I have a massive Excel file with abandoned buildings. The summer of 2023 was all about touring places listed in that Excel. So far I had been disappointed by the amount of successess. Apart from the old town hall, IContinue reading “Sometimes They’ve Vanished While You’ve Been Gone”
Grand Expectations, Harsh Reality
On the second evening of my trip I arrived in a town, where a friend of mine was doing her summer internship. We agreed to meet and go exploring together. We started by buying sushi from a local supermarket and eating it in the harbour in a rather nice evening sun. After that we startedContinue reading “Grand Expectations, Harsh Reality”
Opening Another Season Part I
Around a day has passed in real life since my last post, but in this blog it has been a long day. After the walk around the one family homes, around five cold and dark months had passed before we arrive to my next adventure in the world of urbex. There were a lot ofContinue reading “Opening Another Season Part I”
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
I spent a nice day out in the city of Mikkeli meeting both the friends I went to a mental asylum with the previous summer. We played minigolf (I won), we bowled (I won) and finally went out for drinks and karaoke. Contrary to my usual drinking habits, I stayed sober, as I planned onContinue reading “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden”
A Better Research Would Help
Another day, another adventure. This time I had two locations on my list. The first one was this one, which I had found again thanks to other urban exploration sites. It was a former building, where there had been a bar, a private health care company and an architect’s office. Since abandonment it served asContinue reading “A Better Research Would Help”
Rise Like A Phoenix
Just another burnt out ruin? Definitely not. Pekka Heikkinen & co is a more than 100 year old bakery famous for its bread in the town of Kajaani in Northern Finland. The building itself was designed by famous architect Eino Pitkänen, whose works have pretty much made Kajaani the capital of Finnish functionalistic architecture. TheContinue reading “Rise Like A Phoenix”
Final Moments Captured
Driving on to the next municipality, the next and the next. I was now trying to visit as many of them as possible, and as of this there was very little exploring I could do. But when entering the center of this small municipality, I really couldn’t miss this one. As the municipality was veryContinue reading “Final Moments Captured”
Ruins From My Past
I went on from the tavern, found the next ruin and stopped to take a photo of it. I sat for quite some time in my car watching Google maps trying to figure out what had been on that spot. It was a simple log cabin, not much more special than the ones I stayedContinue reading “Ruins From My Past”