For me, +30 °C is too hot. Now it's -20 °C in Central Finland, which is bearable! First round: Valtimo is now a part of Nurmes (from 2020). Before that there were 2,100 inhabitants. Second round: Ylivieska. Ylivieska has 15,000 inhabitants. That church is the new church (from 2021). The older church (from 1786) was burned down in an arson in 2016. Other wooden churches destroyed in an arson have been recently those in Kiihtelysvaara (1770, arson in 2018), Rautjärvi (1881, arson in 2022). Reisjärvi church is from 1820. Reisjärvi has 2,600 inhabitants. Kerimäki church (from 1847) is the largest wooden church in the world, capable of seating 3,000 people. Kerimäki is now a part of Savonlinna (from 2013); there were 5,200 people in 2012 in the whole municipality. Pori has 83,000 inhabitants. It has lost about 5,000 people from 1980. You may be seeing a trend: smaller municipalities are being merged to larger ones. Also, especially the eastern side of Finland is losing people, and municipalities are getting smaller still.
Mental case burned the building. I was a teen when they installed sprinkler systems, but the water feed pipes were installed right next to the building. My friend was active in the fire department back then and criticized the installation - it would have cost more to lay 20m more feed pipe, but they would have had really easy access from the pump car. He also said that the feed connectors were too close for safety and they couldn't be used in case of a serious fire. Unfortunately he was 100% right in his prediction. I don't know if it would have saved the building, but it might have. Stainless pipeline apparently cost too much or the decision makers couldn't even think that old bone dry wooden building would burn so aggressively. I was 20km away from the location when it happened, the smoke and the glow of the fire was visible.
@0:39 Quite snowy and cold as of today in Jyväskylä. Just less than week ago we had barely any snow, and just below freezing. Now we're at ~20cm and -19C. @8:04 Perä means end, bottom or rear. Usually in geographic context it refers to the end of a bay, but can also be furthest area from something central, for example a town. @13:44 That's the famous Kerimäki Church, largest wooden church in the world. @17:23 Kerimäki has somewhere in the ballpark of 2k-3k people (couldn't find very up to date info, since it's no longer its own municipality, but part of Savonlinna as of 2013). Valtimo has about 1k people and it's also no longer an independent municipality (was merged with Nurmes). Ylivieska has bit over 15k people, Reisjärvi has about 2.6k people and Pori by far the biggest out the 5 has 83k.
-13C, about 30cm of snow yesterday/last night, a bit more to come next night. An inflatable football hall went down with the weight of snow nearby in Tampere. Very beautiful scenery at the lake nearby where I live, pristine snow on the ice without tracks and trees were snowy.
The one in Hervanta? I remember same happened few (6-8?) years ago when our boy was still playing. We went there with the leaf blower while other used shovels :)
Turku -8C, last night we got some snow. I recognized Pori at the fiest glance but the other towns (villages) were totally unfamiliar. Beautiful locations all over Finland. Thanks for a sightseeing 👍
Lake Puruvesi in Kerimäki is known for its uniquely good underwater visibility for a Finnish lake. Thanks to the sandy soils surrounding the lake and springs at the bottom of the lake.
Fun game and good job again! I again played your challenge one day later so most of your questions look to be answered already. On some round you wondered what business was that Korjaamo with enterpreneur's name. "Korjaamo" means a place of repairing and comes from verb "korjata" = "to repair". I guess it was a car service as they are often called with that word. You paid attention to the churches on many rounds. There are over 800 Lutheran churches in Finland and most of the small towns have grown around the churches in the past. Small towns are usually called "kirkonkylä" which means "village of the church".
Sometimes the munincipalities are split in two (or more) villages, which can be distracting when hunting for locations. Good example is Sievi, whose "railway station village" (station = asema), Sievi AS is good distance from the Sievi, which iirc was called Sievi KKO (KKO = KirKkO = church, or something like that) back in the days. Sievi AS: maps.app.goo.gl/Y31z13s3VupphREu6 Sievi: maps.app.goo.gl/HoCaeuEdnALCAboQ6 If someone ever decides to visit Sievi, going during the Muttimarkkinat is a good choice; mutti is simple and very nice traditional food that covers every important part of the food circle; carbs, fat and salt.
4:20 First place Valtimo, translated to "artery". 12:40 Third place Reisijärvi, translates to "thigh lake". 4:30 Moped with 50cc engine, meant for 15 years and older (requires driving license) and max speed is 45km/h. Weather, -14 at the moment (15.12. 5:50pm EET) and it seems to be starting to snowing again. Yesterday there were almost 30cm snow to plow away, today about 10cm... Starts to be enough if I might say. 30'c would be nice... at least for a moment right now middle of the winter.
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For me, +30 °C is too hot. Now it's -20 °C in Central Finland, which is bearable!
First round: Valtimo is now a part of Nurmes (from 2020). Before that there were 2,100 inhabitants.
Second round: Ylivieska. Ylivieska has 15,000 inhabitants. That church is the new church (from 2021). The older church (from 1786) was burned down in an arson in 2016. Other wooden churches destroyed in an arson have been recently those in Kiihtelysvaara (1770, arson in 2018), Rautjärvi (1881, arson in 2022).
Reisjärvi church is from 1820. Reisjärvi has 2,600 inhabitants.
Kerimäki church (from 1847) is the largest wooden church in the world, capable of seating 3,000 people. Kerimäki is now a part of Savonlinna (from 2013); there were 5,200 people in 2012 in the whole municipality.
Pori has 83,000 inhabitants. It has lost about 5,000 people from 1980.
You may be seeing a trend: smaller municipalities are being merged to larger ones. Also, especially the eastern side of Finland is losing people, and municipalities are getting smaller still.
Old church of ylivieska was so beautiful but somebody burned it
Mental case burned the building.
I was a teen when they installed sprinkler systems, but the water feed pipes were installed right next to the building. My friend was active in the fire department back then and criticized the installation - it would have cost more to lay 20m more feed pipe, but they would have had really easy access from the pump car. He also said that the feed connectors were too close for safety and they couldn't be used in case of a serious fire.
Unfortunately he was 100% right in his prediction. I don't know if it would have saved the building, but it might have. Stainless pipeline apparently cost too much or the decision makers couldn't even think that old bone dry wooden building would burn so aggressively.
I was 20km away from the location when it happened, the smoke and the glow of the fire was visible.
@0:39 Quite snowy and cold as of today in Jyväskylä. Just less than week ago we had barely any snow, and just below freezing. Now we're at ~20cm and -19C.
@8:04 Perä means end, bottom or rear. Usually in geographic context it refers to the end of a bay, but can also be furthest area from something central, for example a town.
@13:44 That's the famous Kerimäki Church, largest wooden church in the world.
@17:23 Kerimäki has somewhere in the ballpark of 2k-3k people (couldn't find very up to date info, since it's no longer its own municipality, but part of Savonlinna as of 2013). Valtimo has about 1k people and it's also no longer an independent municipality (was merged with Nurmes). Ylivieska has bit over 15k people, Reisjärvi has about 2.6k people and Pori by far the biggest out the 5 has 83k.
-13C, about 30cm of snow yesterday/last night, a bit more to come next night. An inflatable football hall went down with the weight of snow nearby in Tampere. Very beautiful scenery at the lake nearby where I live, pristine snow on the ice without tracks and trees were snowy.
The one in Hervanta? I remember same happened few (6-8?) years ago when our boy was still playing. We went there with the leaf blower while other used shovels :)
@@ClemensKatzer Yes, that one.
Kerimäki is part of savonlinna nowadays. It was joined 2013. A bit over 5000 people lived there.
The church in kerimäki is the biggest wooden church in the world I believe.
Turku -8C, last night we got some snow. I recognized Pori at the fiest glance but the other towns (villages) were totally unfamiliar.
Beautiful locations all over Finland. Thanks for a sightseeing 👍
Lake Puruvesi in Kerimäki is known for its uniquely good underwater visibility for a Finnish lake. Thanks to the sandy soils surrounding the lake and springs at the bottom of the lake.
Fun game and good job again! I again played your challenge one day later so most of your questions look to be answered already. On some round you wondered what business was that Korjaamo with enterpreneur's name. "Korjaamo" means a place of repairing and comes from verb "korjata" = "to repair". I guess it was a car service as they are often called with that word. You paid attention to the churches on many rounds. There are over 800 Lutheran churches in Finland and most of the small towns have grown around the churches in the past. Small towns are usually called "kirkonkylä" which means "village of the church".
Sometimes the munincipalities are split in two (or more) villages, which can be distracting when hunting for locations. Good example is Sievi, whose "railway station village" (station = asema), Sievi AS is good distance from the Sievi, which iirc was called Sievi KKO (KKO = KirKkO = church, or something like that) back in the days.
Sievi AS: maps.app.goo.gl/Y31z13s3VupphREu6
Sievi: maps.app.goo.gl/HoCaeuEdnALCAboQ6
If someone ever decides to visit Sievi, going during the Muttimarkkinat is a good choice; mutti is simple and very nice traditional food that covers every important part of the food circle; carbs, fat and salt.
4:20 First place Valtimo, translated to "artery".
12:40 Third place Reisijärvi, translates to "thigh lake".
4:30 Moped with 50cc engine, meant for 15 years and older (requires driving license) and max speed is 45km/h.
Weather, -14 at the moment (15.12. 5:50pm EET) and it seems to be starting to snowing again. Yesterday there were almost 30cm snow to plow away, today about 10cm... Starts to be enough if I might say. 30'c would be nice... at least for a moment right now middle of the winter.
11:00 "ice cream 500m" :)
13:35 That means cemetary.
It's -9C in Helsinki now, bit windy and not snowing
Good map to explore small towns! You should play this again a few times.
Perä means rear end of something
AAAARGH round 2 was totally in the wrong place! Damn you non-google street view! Jipped me out of a point! Bastards!