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Into the Zone: My Trip to Chernobyl & Pripyat

Janos — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:23:00 +0000

On the June of 2010 I fulfilled a long time dream and went to visit the exploded Chernobyl power plant and the abandoned city of Pripyat.

Urban Exploration: An Old Russian Fortification (1915)

Janos — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:22:49 +0000

A couple of weeks back Sameli, whom I knew only as a handle in local UE websites and Flickr, asked me to come with him to check out one of the World War I fortifications that can be found a-plenty around Helsinki area. We had talked about them earlier, but I’ve never been energetic enough [...]

Geotrip Featuring an Abandoned Kindergarten

Janos — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:07:05 +0000

Last weekend I went for a short geotrip, but ended up finding a few cool places – like a windmill near the area I used to live for years and an abandoned kindergarten. That’s the cool thing about hobbies like geocaching. You end up going to all kinds of weird places you’d otherwise never see. [...]

Utö / Park Victory – Wrecks, Fortifications and Toads

Janos — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:12:44 +0000

Last weekend I and a number of people from our diving club went for a two day trip to Utö to check out the Park Victory shipwreck. Utö is the southernmost inhabited island in Finland, it has some military presence and a population of 50 or so. The island has been inhabited from the 16th [...]

Urban Exploration: Downtown Railroad

Janos — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:33:46 +0000

Yesterday the weather was perfect. It was sunny but not too warm, a great day of zooming around the city with a bicycle. After I left work I cycled to Ruoholahti to the Oxygene diving store to get the diving light I had decided to buy on impulse, while cursing my current flashlight on the [...]

Urban Exploration: An Abandoned Paper Mill

Janos — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:44:35 +0000

The target of this UE Sunday was and old paper mill that was abandoned in 2006. The mill had been operational for almost 110 years, from 1897 to 2006. On the way the weather was beautiful – the sky was full of enormous cumulus clouds, everything was fresh and green. I stopped on the way [...]

UE Easter: Railroad tunnel, rescue personnel training ground and abandoned villas

Janos — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:00:16 +0000

My plan was to check out an abandoned medical center, but I couldn’t figure out how to get in. Instead I went driving around looking for targets. I checked out a railroad tunnel near where I used to live, a training ground for rescue personnel and an abandoned lot, before going to see one of [...]

Urban Exploration: Abandoned heavy machinery repair shop

Janos — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:00:29 +0000

These are photos from an abandoned heavy machinery repair shop in Helsinki. Parts of it were used by the fire department for practice. (From a photoset in Flickr)

Urban Exploration, Swimming & Nerding Around

Janos — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:58:28 +0000

When I woke up today, it was surprisingly cold and sunny outside. One of those nippy and bright winter days which have been in REALLY short order for the last three years or so. The previous week had left me feeling like a roadkill warmed twice over. All the hassle with the apartment and the fever, dealing with the [...]

Exploring Herttoniemi

Janos — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:19:14 +0000

When I left the office today, the weather was a bit too sunny and I was feeling a little too jittery to go straight to home. Instead I decided to go and pick up a geocache a couple of kilometers away, near a Bronze Age burial site next to Itäväylä road. Cycling there was very [...]