An interesting place to leave a lamp. This looks like the hall of another apartment. Another very familiar looking room. Here the lamp has landed on the floor. A calendar by local entrepreneurs from 2006-2007. The place has probably been abandoned at the end of 2006 in that case. As the Christmas envelope was thereContinue reading “One Caught, Two Got Away Part III”
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One Caught, Two Got Away Part II
Time to enter apartment number two. Another small room. House number two was visible behind the windows. Old fashioned cupboards. The kitchen. The fridge’s brand was Hoover. I didn’t know, that they made fridges too. Lots of cupboards on one wall of this room. The bathroom was a bit more modern than the previous one.Continue reading “One Caught, Two Got Away Part II”
One Caught, Two Got Away Part I
Back in the early 1930’s a large tuberculosis sanatorium was built by a river. When tuberculosis was eradicated in Finland, it expanded into other lung patients and patients with rheumatism. It was closed down in the early 1990’s. Luckily enough the beautiful building escaped the fate of this tuberculosis sanatorium. It has since become aContinue reading “One Caught, Two Got Away Part I”
An Itchy Issue
I did complete the crucial tour of Lapland successfully in the time I had. And what a tour it was. The first evening I drove to Pyhä-Nattanen and climbed the hill in the midnight sun. The following evening I drove via the northernmost tip of Finland all the way through the western ‘arm’ of FinlandContinue reading “An Itchy Issue”
Over The Hills And Far Away Part V
The garage wing extended well back to the end of the yard. There was another open door back there. The toilets in the apartments inside the building lacked showers. Well, there was a sauna back here, where the inhabitants could was themselves. The dressing room. And the washroom with the all too familiar hexagonal tiles.Continue reading “Over The Hills And Far Away Part V”
Over The Hills And Far Away Part IV
Now I did promise you something very special. Here it is. Condoms, which have expired in 1997. They are on top of a destroyed TV set and some letters to the apparently last inhabitant of the apartment. Old chairs and a broken guitar. My mother always did tell me, that playing guitar will get meContinue reading “Over The Hills And Far Away Part IV”
Over The Hills And Far Away Part III
Moving to the hall of the next apartment. An interesting place to store cleaning equipment here. A bag of a shoe store. The company ceased to exist next year, although this bag is from earlier than the mid-1990’s. That’s when there was a big telephone number change in Finland. Another kitchen. Now this is oneContinue reading “Over The Hills And Far Away Part III”
Over The Hills And Far Away Part II
An old letterbox. And at the sight of this I immediately knew what I would find. Apartments for the postal workers, of course. They even featured toilets, which was luxurious in the early 1950’s this far away. A very old hat of the nationwide co-operative bank. Yes, Finns love co-operatives. Why fit apartments with suchContinue reading “Over The Hills And Far Away Part II”
Over The Hills And Far Away Part I
Although I prefer to explore alone, I am an active member of the Finnish urban exploration social media community. I mainly share my work, but am always on the lookout of new locations. Most of the photos are from ordinary one family houses, which weren’t too interesting. Most of the bigger locations I had alreadyContinue reading “Over The Hills And Far Away Part I”
It’s All About Respecting Them
My tour had by now advanced to a stage, where I was driving through the most scarcely populated areas of Finland, which had suffered the most of the effects of urbanization. An endless supply of abandoned buildings? Yes. An endless supply of walk-in locations? No. What you have to know about the Northern part ofContinue reading “It’s All About Respecting Them”