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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Died At 35 Years Young Part II
Continuing the journey in trying to find an entrance to the school. At this point I was no longer very hopeful. More bike shelters here. And another abandoned building. This here is a former daycare center probably built and abandoned at the same time as the school. It also seemed tightly shut. I wasn’t hopeful,Continue reading “Died At 35 Years Young Part II”
Died At 35 Years Young Part I
Reading the newspapers is a great way of finding abandoned buildings. This time it was the traditional news: an abandoned school building has been badly vandalized. This time the building wasn’t even that old. It was built in 1985 and abandoned in 2020 because of air quality problems. Its use lasted just 35 years. TheContinue reading “Died At 35 Years Young Part I”
My Summer Car Is Really Made Of All These Things, Season 4
The first of May was approaching, and that only meant one thing. It was time to agree, when I would get my summer car back from its winter storage. For the first time ever I would spend two consecutive summers driving the same car. Quite a feat, as my summer cars have always been fromContinue reading “My Summer Car Is Really Made Of All These Things, Season 4”
Greeting My Godson Part III
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”
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”
A Cute Motorway Guard Part IV
Many of the publications seen in the previous photo were Donald Duck Pocket Books. Most of them were from earlier than the late 1990’s when I started collecting them, but this one is familiar. I’ve read it numerous times. The dog guards a box of loose screws? Moving back to the stairway again, where aContinue reading “A Cute Motorway Guard Part IV”
A Cute Motorway Guard Part III
In the corner of the stairway was another old, valuable looking piece of furniture. And at the top were more built in cupboards with lots of empty files. The sheer amount of storage space here was amazing. Catalogues to an antiquarian bookshop? They are official, it says. This must be a luxury book shop, then.Continue reading “A Cute Motorway Guard Part III”
A Cute Motorway Guard Part II
A lovely piece of old furniture damaged by idiots. A better look at the room reveals, that it actually seems like a former bedroom. An aerial photo of an island. If I’m not completely mistaken, this is the island of Lauttasaari in Western Helsinki. It seems that the inhabitants really loved the area, as thisContinue reading “A Cute Motorway Guard Part II”
A Cute Motorway Guard Part I
We had founded a new dance group the previous autumn. Our practice sessions took os around Southern Finland around once a month, and we often carpooled. On such tours I had spotted a lovely but neglected old villa next to a busy motorway. An interesting place to explore on my day off. Like I said,Continue reading “A Cute Motorway Guard Part I”