Finders Keep.. Or Is it? / Löytäjä Saa Pitää.. Vai Saako?

Somewhere in Lapland

On the one of my adventures I found this hidden gem

So beautiful

Standing on the meadow

Surrounded by flowers

I assumed this one was abandoned too

Like so many other old house

Sense this one was almost collapsed

Like too many other old house

The door was loosely locked

Again I was wondering

Where goes the line of trespassing

When it is breaking in

And when it is a friendly visit

The law says it is always trespassing when you go in

No matter if the door is open or closed

And I understand this

There is too much people whom don't know how to respect the old house

They brake windows to get in

Make a mess inside

And take all kind of old things with them from the house

For these kinda things there is a simple term

It's called burklary

There is a simple code for people wanting to visit old places

Take only photographes

Leave only foot prints

Simple as that

Then the other thing is

What is 'abandoned'

Old house or cottage that looks like there has been nobody in decades

Can be still somebody's summer house

It would be wise to find out the history of the place

Before you go in

But like me so often

I come a cross with the places by accident

In this case I try to use common sense

I always also ask from the house if I'm welcome

Usually the house welcomes me and shows me the way in

But sometimes not

Then I respect that and continue my way

When I was younger

I was too thirsty for adventures

And too blind to stop and listen

So I made a way to get in this old house

While inside I got this really bad vibes

The whole house was rejecting me

There was a lot of scary stuff

And stuff that where obviously stolen

And I realized there has been somebody

Somebody I wouldn't want to meet

I left the place and never came back

Afterwords I felt bad

I had broke my code and the common code

I had actually done something that wasn't fun anymore

So you live, you learn

I never posted the pics from that house anywhere

and I never will

So now I was standing on one door again

Asking if I'm welcome

This time I was

The house was in a really bad shape

The basement was totally collapsed

I was stepping super carefully on the floor

Numbers at the house base stonewall tells that the house has been build 1938-50

Note on the bench tells that somebody has been visiting the owner 1983

Latest newspaper was the Hufvudstadsbladet from 1994

From the internet I couldn't find any information about the house

So it remains a mystery house for me

Exploring the main floor is always nice and exiting

But going higher or lower is always a bit scary

Especially if the house can collapse in any minute

Do you rather get burried

Or take a leap of faith with the upstairs floor

This is always a nice mind game to play alone in the spooky old house

This time also there was no ghosts making them selves visible for me

Not even afterwords from the pictures

Which is also kinda spooky when you see something in the pic

That wasn't there when taking the pic

So this seemed very peaceful house

It just stands there in the middle of the flower meadow

With the bright colors little by little fainting from it's walls

I'm not going to reveal the location of this place

So let just say it is somewhere in Lapland

Local people probably know the place already

Sense I definitely wan't the first one visiting there

(Some ladies had typed on the piece of paper that they were here)

But I hope you will enjoy the beautiness of this old house through my pictures

And maybe understand why I sometimes bend the law for the pics and stories

The Castle Mountain / Linnavuori

Ikoinniemi, Savonlinna

For a long time I have been looking this place on a map

The Castle Mountain

Actually just one of them

There is about 90 places in Finland called as Castle Mountain

Seven of them here in Southern Savo

Some of them have actually served as Iron Age fortresses

Lookout places for enemies

At some of the places they have found evidences about this

But some of the places have just the name

I visited one of these Castle Mountains

Here in Ikoniemi there is no evidence about ancient fortress being here

But for my opinion this has been a perfect lookout place 

The dirt road was so small and curvy

That I was really glad to have my new adventure partner  with me

This being my 4wd car

I just love it

The "parking area" was just a small wider spot by the road

And the path that was supposed to start from the "parking area"

Was so unused that I couldn't find it at first

It had been taken over by the Lilys of the valley

Nice

This kinda places I like

The hidden gems

 It was super hot summer day

I love the smell of the pine tree forests

They smell like home

Like a childhood summers

It's so quiet and peaceful

Only the Whooper swans disagree

At the nearby bay there is some kind of swan mayhem going on

National bird of Finland negotiating who was on that bay first
I would see this noise as a part
Of this kinda national and cultural view

Like Common Gull or Arctic Loon

I try to step carefully on the super dry lichen
Which seems to grow everywhere here
Funny plants these liches
On  rainy day they are like sponges
Soft and elastic
And now in this sudden heatwave
They are crispy and crunchy
And break easily

I also record that
It has been way too long sense my last adventure
Should remember to do this more often
Refill my batteries
Enjoy the moment

I didn't find either any signs about the Iron Age Fortress being here
Two stone piles on the top
Turn out to be some thing that tourists and visitors make when they visit here
It's apparently common to bring your own stone to the pile
I just wonder why so many people carry stones with them?
And I was thinking if the binoculars are too heavy to take with
Jeesus

Definitely worth visiting

Like so many places are

Now I just want to find those six other Castle Mountains

But that's a matter of some other day

Get Naked / Alasti

Get naked

A writing on the wall

Followed by a snail

What's it message

I wonder

Laying on a bed

In a clean looking hotel

In the heart of a dirty city

Get naked slowly

Annoying snail

The bed is soft

Sheets smell fresh 'n clean

I hope they are too

I remember the news

About five star hotels

Wore bed sheets were made bed again

How it is in this kinda hotel

In this kinda city

Where snails on the walls advice to get naked

Where they pay you to get naked

Where dirty is love

Vicious love

I love this city

Fairytale Gone Bad

Abandoned Places

Somewhere in Eastern-Finland

 This is the end

You know

The dreams you had

Went all wrong

You got to a point I can't stand

I've had it to the limit; this can't be your land

I ain't more than a minute away of falling

You can't cry the paint to stay

You can't find a neat way

And slowly realize

I'm no more on your side

Out of my sight

Out of my kind

Out of the years

You can't rewind

You need to swallow all your pride

And just leave this mess behind

Out of my beds

Out of my steps

Out of the dreams you had

They are bad

Tell them it's you who made me sad

Tell them the fairytale gone bad

Another night and I leak

They all make mistakes and so did these

But they did something that can never be turned right

Find a new one to ruin

Leave and don't look back

I won't follow

I have nothing left

It's the end of my time

*******

The original lyrics are from

Sunrise Avenue's song Fairytale gone bad

Ps. If you like abandoned places

Here's some more!

Abandoned Dreams

The abandoned town of Crownmountain

An old Finnish school

The Cycle of Autumn / Syksyn Kierto

Taas yksi vuoden kierto takana

Taas yhden kierron enemmän vakava

Mitä

Enkä ole vakava

Mutta edelleen pakana

Peittona Äiti Maan lakana

Ehkä viisaampi ja vanhempi

Ainakin vanhempi

Monta kokemusta rikkaampi

Vähän taas valmiimpi

Sisimmästään kauniimpi

Edelleen haaveilija

Oman elämänsä seikkailija

Toteutuiko haaveista monikaan

Tuskimpavaan

Ehkä kuitenkin lähempänä toimintaa

On jotkin haaveet

Jos oikein kurottaa

Mitä tuleva kierto tuo tullessaan

Sitä talven tullen voi vain aavistaa

Luonnon kanssa lumivaipassa horrostaa

Sydämessä kutoa haaveitaan

Uusia vaatteitaan

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