Hello dear reader! I promised to continue my last post which you find here. Today I’m going to write about ghostcity Viivikonna where our journey took us. We decided to go there because just like a motorcycle ride, ghostcity also offers a little adrenaline. Viivikonna is the most popular ghostcity in Estonia. It used to be minigcity before the mining was closed at 1974. People started to find happiness, work and home from elsewhere. Viivikonna lost its status as a municipality in 1993 and at the beginning of the 2000s several locals were scared to go by turning off electricity and water. People turned very ingenious in finding alternatives. Now there live about 90 inhabitants. We took a little tour out there. The roads were haughty because as I said there is no municipality. Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of pictures of this place so I try to descride as I can. Most of the buildings were empty. The most freeky thing about Viivikonna was that people live in those empty buildings. Imagine to live beside empty and creepy flat with broken windows and curtains? Or windows covered with wood? The place remind me Chernobyl, which is the city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in near Ukraine's border with Belarus. I think Chermobyl does not require more introduction. By the way, I will go to Chernobyl at the end of the summer 2018. Unfortunately not with motorcycles but still it’s gonna be very cool trip! Two of us are going, me and my friend, my friend is also a girl and she is in the middle of progress doing her motorcycle licence. I guess I’m quite blessed that I have friend with similar interests. So, where did I left. Viivikonna - we didn’t spent a lot of time out there and we made only few pictures.
One picture from high tower where two crazy people climbed.
And of course one required group picture.
This day our journy also finished. On the way back I did my first falling. You can’t even imagine how! I was the last one waiting for a right turn in front and I had to stop. The road turned right and also was sloping down at the right side. I put my right leg down but the road was sloping so much that my motorcycle fell too low and I couldn’t push it up anymore. So I let it go… Luckily nothing but the right mirror was broken. We were tired as hell when we got home and I still remember how painful my butt was but the trip was cool and we were happy!
I hope you liked my post about Viivikonna! In my next post I think I will write about winterswimming again and after that I will write about best motorcycle event in Estonia.
Cya!