It was that time of the year again. I had read news of city planning all winter, and was ready to go and see some locations, which were destined for demolition and replacement with larger, modern and more efficient buildings. This is an old one family house from 1930. According to the detail plan documents,Continue reading “Chasing News Part I”
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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”
Crossing The Finish Line
It’s August 21st 2022, just after midnight. A large yellow ferry arrives at port in a pitch black late summer night in the beginning of the autumn’s first rainstorm. My epic Tour De Finland has ended in success. Since late May I’ve been attempting to visit all the 570+ current and former municipalities of FinlandContinue reading “Crossing The Finish Line”
The Town Hall Still In Waiting
Yet another old friend of mine, which I’ve come to visit again hoping for better successes than the previous time. This is the former town hall, which I found two years earlier. It had stood empty for years waiting for demolition, but not much seemed to happen. And unfortunately the buildings seemed as closed asContinue reading “The Town Hall Still In Waiting”
The Cottage By The Old Highway Part II
A second bookshelf, this time with no furry strangers. Random stuff, what looks like an old sewing machine and a pillow from the 1990’s. A cupboard in one corner of the room. Another bottle of alcohol. There were loads of them here. Nice, flower themed paintings on the wall. And suddenly I’m upstairs in someContinue reading “The Cottage By The Old Highway Part II”
The Cottage By The Old Highway Part I
This looks like an old, manual well. And this looks like the house it has served. And this looks like an open door. The owner’s music collection. And the local newspaper from 2012 indicating the date of abandonment. What looks like an electric chainsaw. Welcome to the kitchen. Luckily the china has stayed intact. TheContinue reading “The Cottage By The Old Highway Part I”
The Volunteers Were Careless
Usually I am very careful with locations I am unsure of. If I’m not entirely sure that they are abandoned, I stay away. Of course sometimes I make mistakes, like I did with the abandoned looking one family house, where I encountered an old lady reading in the garden. I had been tipped about thisContinue reading “The Volunteers Were Careless”
A Neverending School Part II
The surprise I promised at the end of the previous post wasn’t a point of entry, which I thought you’d think. It was another building with yet a very, very classy piece of graffiti on its end wall. It was a row house clearly built along with the first phase of the school, which probablyContinue reading “A Neverending School Part II”
The Yearly Check Up Led To Nothing
As I’ve said several times, whenever I can’t enter a location, I mark it up and return to it the following year. And that’s exactly why I’m here. These are the former staff apartments of a former mental asylum featured earlier in here. Sometimes, if nothing has changed since my previous visit, I don’t evenContinue reading “The Yearly Check Up Led To Nothing”