The following location was completely new for me despite having grown up and lived most of my childhood just some kilometers from it. And I found it thanks to my friend and I getting a bit lost in translation. My family spoke Finnish, but I went to school in Swedish all the way from kindergartenContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part III”
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Greeting My Godson Part II
After the child caring institution we decided to try the old dockyard, which we had unsuccessfully tried to enter the previous summer. The gates were still locked, but as the sea was still frozen, we figured that we could walk to the area from the ice. And how right we were. Now there’s nothing betweenContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part II”
Greeting My Godson Part I
Like every Easter I travelled back to the town I was born in to spend some quality time with my godson. It’s already a tradition. And an equal tradition is, that during one of the days I and the godson’s father escape somewhere to do urban exploration. Here we are just a few hundred metersContinue reading “Greeting My Godson Part I”
When Architecture Meets Greediness
For one reason or another, I’ve grown very fond of architect Martti Heikura’s buildings. Heikura, along with Uki Heikkinen has been a very influential figure in determining how the city of Oulu, my former home town looks like nowadays. Sadly, several of Heikura’s buildings have been featured in this blog previously. They include the PajarinkulmaContinue reading “When Architecture Meets Greediness”
I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part II
So we are finally inside. Moving on to the first apartment and its thrashed kitchen. The rooms were small, dull, dark and built with cheap materials. This was also the story with the bathrooms. The second room of the first apartment. This one was for two people to share. I started my career in theContinue reading “I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part II”
I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part I
The summer was well gone. I had transported my summer car to the summer storage, broken up with my summer date, had spent the Christmas and was feeling tired and miserable as usual during the winter. I had learned about an area of nine abandoned blocks of shared flats, which had sat abandoned since 2020,Continue reading “I’ll Warm Up The Sauna Part I”
An Autumn Date Part VII
The night was already falling. After exploring the abandoned summer camp, we headed to the old dairy processing plant, which has been my biggest urbex dream since 2011. That was eleven years before this photograph. Despite having recently received large graffitis on the windows, all doors were shut. And the dream remains. The day IContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part VII”
An Autumn Date Part VI
Moving on to the final rooms of the accommodation building. This is what I call a mess. A tabloid from 2004. Meat. Another old fashioned cupboard. The following room. Vodka and snus. The following bedroom. A chair. Which has burned. The main building. The former basement. A look back towards the accommodation building. A closerContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part VI”
An Autumn Date Part V
Moving on to the accommodation rooms. The first one of them. The bedrooms seem a bit moldy. The rooms contained beautiful old cupboards. But there really was a lot of mold. A curtain. A cupboard with a couple of pillows. And another cupboard with a couple of canisters. Another room. It seems like there haveContinue reading “An Autumn Date Part V”
An Autumn Date Part IV
The classroom was a mess. The walls and roof were made of beautiful wood panels. More board games. Another mess. Small footprints and watercolors. The classroom seen from the front. Drawings made by the kids on the wall. The course of 2000. A grill wagon. A better look inside. The following building: the accommodation building.Continue reading “An Autumn Date Part IV”