The student apartment corridor, which actually looks more like a dormitory than apartments. There are rooms on both sides of the corridor. And a classic shared shower and bath. One of the dorm rooms. The symmetrical layout indicates to me, that each room had two beds. There also are two beds in the room. AContinue reading “Wandering In Darkness Part VI”
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Wandering In Darkness Part IV
Welcome to yet another room with no clues about what it has once been. The toilet door has gotten lost here somehow. More small standard rooms. Safety equipment. A standard larger room. I’ve said it numerous times, but big institutions like this one always look fascinating from the outside, but if all furinture and equipmentContinue reading “Wandering In Darkness Part IV”
Wandering In Darkness Part III
Finally there was some light to photograph. The rooms were still mostly empty, though. The surroundings never were quite inspiring. That looks like it has something to do with Lucia, a very traditional Christmas time festivity in Swedish speaking Finland. The light makes funny shapes. A mirror selfie. Interesting double radiators here. The cold wintersContinue reading “Wandering In Darkness Part III”
Wandering In Darkness Part II
So the corridor continues. I can’t understand why they’ve used Comic Sans on the sign on the door of the customer toilet. No use in pressing the buttons on the doorbell anymore. And no use in trying to apply make up in the customer toilet anymore. After that we are back to the standard roomsContinue reading “Wandering In Darkness Part II”
Wandering In Darkness Part I
Well, well, well, what do we have here? If there’s a forbidden entrance to the building and area, there must be an allowed one. But as I don’t have time to look for it, I’ll just pretend that I don’t speak any of these languages. I do speak, two of them as a native andContinue reading “Wandering In Darkness Part I”
Not A Single Broken Window In Two Years
The more I tour, the more I will visit locations, which I visited during my epic first Tour de Finland and my more chilled second Tour de Finland. They are all locations, which I would have liked to visit, but never got the chance. Some open after several attempts like the co-operative store and blockContinue reading “Not A Single Broken Window In Two Years”
I would Have Loved To Meet You
Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s a regional central hospital network was built in Finland. The capital of each region got its own hospital, which were prime examples of public building architecture back in their days. Since then the hospitals have been expanded numerous times, but eventually the buildings have reached an age, when drastic,Continue reading “I would Have Loved To Meet You”
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”
Promised A Lot, Provided A Little
When I was doing my previous, large Tour De Finland in 2020, I visited almost all former mental asylums in Finland, which I knew about. Almost. There were some, which I had missed. The decision to close this hospital was made in 2015 and the last patients moved out in 2019. Some of the buildingsContinue reading “Promised A Lot, Provided A Little”
Mental Asylum Area Part II
The hospital just continues. This wing is the absolute back side of the old part with only one entrance. Again it was closed. Behind the hospital was another building. It seemed to contain the power station and techincal department. The building followed the architecture of the older part of the hospital. So it must beContinue reading “Mental Asylum Area Part II”