Onnelankatu is a street very close to central Lahti. It is a pretty popular place to live because it's close to the city center and also at a slightly higher elevation than the rest because its close to the top of the esker running west to east just south of the center. The buildings are old and wooden but many of them have been extensively renovated.
I'm turning to the right now to Onnelankatu.
This building has been abandoned. If I recall correctly, there used to be a daycare center in it before that.
A typical residential building built between the 1930's and the 1950's. It's obviously been renovated.
This is a quiet street almost without traffic except for the residents themselves.
The street is less than 1 km long.
A typical building like this has a few apartments ranging from studios to three-bedroom family homes.
You can see the end of threet in the distance. This is the newer part of the area and it is quite obvious that the attractiveness of the area has dropped like a rock.
Coming back now.
I tried to look for homes listed for sale on the street but I found none. It says something.
Here's the abandoned and boarded up daycare facility again.
A school is on top of the esker. It's currently in these temporary buildings because the old building that was demolished last year had serious water damage that made it unusable.
I made an urbex post about the old building while it still existed. I honestly think it's worth checking out.
The parking lot seems to be full of parents in their cars.
I'm about to call it a summer. At some point I will regardless of what the temperature is. Today has been a cold day. But summer-like weather conditions have persisted surprisingly long in recent years. Thermal summer normally ends around mid-September in the south of the country but in 2006 that happened in mid-October. A young English go player once turned up at a tournament in sandals and with no socks in mid-October. At that time we lived in Tampere and there were direct flights from Stanstead to Tampere by Ryanair. I picked him up from the airport and had it not been record warm, I would've driven him straight to a department store to shop for clothes more appropriate for the weather.
A modern day Shackleton ... ;)