I told you earlier about finding the list of property strategies of municipalities and towns and using them to find abandoned properties destined for demolition. Well, I had again encountered the list of a small regional town, which was losing people fast. I could determine, that some of the buildings had already been demolished, butContinue reading “Some Towns Are More Effective Than Others”
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Mambo No 5 Part III
That must be the door from the pub to the terrace, which I saw earlier from the outside. The wall to wall carpet is a blast from the past. The children’s menu and the drinks. A nice fit! The use of wood in the interior is striking. It was visible everywhere except for the floor.Continue reading “Mambo No 5 Part III”
Mambo No 5 Part II
The back door opened directly to a dark corridor with cold rooms and meat boxes. As every single window of the building was nailed shut, this would become a dark and messy exploration with very bad quality photos. Sorry for that, not sorry. The cold room no longer contained food. It contained china and glasses,Continue reading “Mambo No 5 Part II”
I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part V
Before moving downstairs, here’s one final look at the former restaurant from this direction. So now let’s move down the stairs. The stairs lead right to another entrance. I’m not really sure, if the two floors of bars were of the same company, but I believe so. So here’s the downstairs, which was extremely difficultContinue reading “I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part V”
I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part III
The story was pretty much familiar already along the corridor. Dark and thrashed apartments. And open windows too close to the neighboring house. Same view, different settings. Again a lovely chair. I’ve seen so many in abandoned buildings, that I could decorate a mansion with them. The rest of the furniture wasn’t equally impressive. ThereContinue reading “I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part III”
I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part I
Welcome to an overgrown backyard. Faithful followers have been here before, way back in 2020, when I first found this place. The history of the building has been featured there in more detail, now I’m just content with telling you, that this is the former headquarters of a workers’ co-operative. Originally there was a storeContinue reading “I Missed Fine Dining, I Missed Cheap Beer Part I”
The Fall Of Causes
After independence Finland fought a bloody civil war, which left the nation extremely divided. The whites and the reds couldn’t co-operate in almost anything and this led to an interesting dual society. One visible thing were sports clubs. In every major town there was at least one for the right wing people and one forContinue reading “The Fall Of Causes”
A Dream Vacation
Here we go again. The road ends in a cape in a remote location. I’ve received info about a location I should visit from a friend, and it looks like I’ve found what I’ve been looking for. We are literally in the middle of nowhere, and there’s a tennis court here. It looks like itContinue reading “A Dream Vacation”
Still Around
Of course the tour also included a look at the famous restaurant, which had been closed for eight years now. Its history has been covered better in earlier posts. The building, which I had last seen in 2018, still looked like it used to back then. New plans were already unfolding. Just three days earlierContinue reading “Still Around”
The Tavern
When I was working in the Southeast, I developed a good working relationship with an eccentric photographer in our paper. During our visit to a small municipality called Luumäki, we started discussing a small tavern in a small village called Jurvala close to the centre. Back in 2011 the place was an absolute blast fromContinue reading “The Tavern”