- This is one those places that I've been aware for a quite a long time, through other Finnish UE sites and since I've seen what it looks like, I have felt no compelling reason to go and see it for myself.

- But, seeing the pictures and seeing the place yourself is a entirely different matter. Pictures can only tell part of the tale and give you a glimpse of the atmosphere, but you need to experience it yourself, to fully appreciate it.

- The old and abandoned atmosphere is strongly present here, with a lot of old stuff lying around. Newspapers, magazines, medicines, clothes, cans and the architecture telling a tale from some other time. Time that is unfamiliar to me and perhaps even to my parents. With a good imagination, walking among the old and now partly collapsed villa's, you can try to picture what the place must have looked like in the early part of the 20th century. Gardens blooming, people in nice dresses watching sailing ship arriving to Helsinki, children playing in the forest and in the shore, people having a garden party with visitors arriving from the Helsinki itself, that was back then, located quite far away. If you close your eyes, you really can picture this image and perhaps even hear the people talking and laughing. The only thing that's missing are the people itself, but perhaps it's even possible to see them...

- Even if you don't sense those people, that used to occupy these villa's, you surely cannot miss the marks that are left from the present day people. Graffiti's, beer bottles, drug syringes and general devastation, tells another story from another time and another people.

- At the moment, there isn't too many of these villa's standing there in a good shape. Most of them are in a life threatening state and it's really foolish to try to enter most of the villa's. Made out of wood and not taken care of in the past fifty or sixty years, you would have to be an idiot to start climbing the stairs in some of the houses. Even if the house looks to be mostly in a quite good condition, visiting the interiors, does carry a serious risk of injuring yourself or dying when the whole house collapses.

- When we climbed on top of a hill, to admire the view to Helsinki, we couldn't believe our eyes. An old summer-house, standing there alone, separated from the rest of the villa's. In a sad condition, it's a memory from the time, when these kind of structures were constructed from shingles. Too bad it wont survive too many winters anymore and eventually it will slide to the sea, finding the last resting place from there. I'm just a bit amazed, that no museum hasn't paid any interest to this summer-house, as I've understood that structures made out of shingles, are quite valuable?

- The floors in most of the villa's, are so full of garbage and another stuff, that you cannot even see the floor itself. One would need to do an archeological excavation here to see the floor. I'm not sure how old newspapers could be discovered beneath the surface, as even the magazines and newspapers on top, were from the sixties and seventies. Some of the rooms were so full of these newspapers, that even when I'm not the tallest person around, I had a difficult time of standing straight, as my head kept on hitting the ceiling.