My World Tuesday - West side story

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My world today is about buildings west side of Helsinki where small rivers flow, lakes spot the terrain and rolling hills break up farmers fields and forests and people live a less hectic life.


Here is Sjundby mansion situated by a river just were the rapids fall into a small lake. Still today owned by the private family Adlercreutz, who has been in possession of this mansion for over three hundred years but it was under russian seige during the second world war. In one of the buildings there are still russian texts on the outside wall giving instructions to the soldiers.


The river provides some of their electricity via this building housing an electric turbain.


Here is that same building viewed from the lake side


Moving onto the Svidja manor, which no longer functions as a private home but is the headquarters of Scandinavia's largest agricultural institute


Here is a closer view of it. It is built like many churches in a cross formation.


Close to Svidja is this old grey stone church with its yellow bell tower. This is the church of Siuntio.


Alongside another road near the village Lapinkyla I found this little wooden church with the typical cross form shape.


This large birch tree stands guard to an allotment garden village with rows and rows of pretty little cottages and their just as pretty little gardens and as you can see my world is still a wintery one.