February 14, 2016 - gone
Out on a jog. Passing La Strada. The remains after the fire is gone. Bicycles later there to document. The place is surrounded by fencing. Scattered brick. More than I who like going here. Footprints in the snow.

Brunnshög farm next door is waiting. What will happen to it? Graffiti are painted over. Apart from a window. Winter Aconite flowers.

The distribution box at La Strada is scribbled. No interesting graffiti. Missing La Strada. It do probably the bulls on Klosterängshöjden too.

A week later, the fence is gone. Empty.

October 23, 2015
A short automn visit to the remains after the fire of La Strada. Car seats have been placed outside the fence. Scratchy. Perhaps a new graffiti that can be seen through an opening. More graffiti in the underpass under the highway.

September 13, 2015 - New graffiti
Well, then the fence that surrounded La Strada has beem cut up. Brick wall has received new graffiti, it has even ventured into ruin and painted on the walls inside. Very debris surrounding the place. Otherwise, they seem to have moved operations to the underpass under the highway

27-28 June 2015: Burned down
"Old house of ancient lineage up in smoke," says the magazine. La Strada has burned. Bikes there to see how things are. Substantially burnt out. Upstairs and gables are gone. An empty shell of the ground floor remains. The gables is demolished due to risk of collapse. Plastic strap locks of rest of it can also crumble. Ignoring the straps, La Strada is a bit mine as well, I think. Looking through some windows. Keeps me away from the wall. There is still smoke, some glowing beneath rubble. Negligence or by purpose? Some of that must it be. The trees nearby are surprisingly well. On a heap lit red poppies against the remnants.

The municipality bought the house some years ago. They did not know what to use it for and let it stand. They are probably not so sad, now the avoid the worry. On a pole, information on the future of the house "maybe a school again." Over now. It is a nice new road to Max IV and now can one not see the house from the road any longer. Adjacent is the apparently deserted Brunnshög farm. What will happen to it? On the gravel road past Max IV to Ladugårdsmarken stands concrete blocks set as a modern monument of La Strada.

A while ago (May 2, 2015) I took my last pictures from inside the house. In my garden do I have a piece of the graffiti.

March 7, 2015
Outside do one put pipes for the ESS area. In the parking lot are pipes whose ends going in color with the graffiti on La Strada eastern gable. The sealing of the door to Lundqvist is broken. Likewise, the seal is to some windows torn down. In a well are the remains of a Christmas plant. In the courtyard is a broken toilet seat. Inside, the floor is full of rubble. Some graffiti works that I do not remember. Some doub as well.

When I pass a week later (15 March), the building's facade is cleaned, no graffiti anymore. Are one planning to do something with the house? Now when one make the road to the Max IV should also the house be made nice.

December 25, 2014
A customary Christmas visit. Some new works on the outer walls. The door on the gable is again a sealed so you will not get in. Outside is a toilet seat.

October 5, 2014: Break-in again
Soon, Max IV is inaugurated. The researchers and other visitors who go there today will be met by a rather boring area. Rusting petrol pumps after MacBörje, next to it is the concrete road Stradan. Not least, "La Strada" is there. The municipality bought it, the most crumbling house was demolished and the brick house was sealed. Now are big holes in the seal. The door is completely demolished. Shutters are thrown out and lies in pieces on the ground. In a tree hang clothes (drying?). Inside I update my collection of photos of the grafitti. Some are what I will remember new. Among other ZAD on the facade. No new fine.

Outside, I hear the sound of birds. In the dead elm tree sits a whole flock of birds, can not see what it is. A larger flock lifts, fills heaven and sits down again. Some settle in the mast. Three people arrive, cares neither about birds, house or me. They pick stone from a heap. Going home via the bulls at Klosterängshöjden on the other side of the highway. From there, is a view towards La Strada. Autumn is coming. Over the hill flie a bird of prey.

Christmas 2013: Exciting visit
So it's time for an update of what has happened with La Strada. Not much. At the former gas station is a pile of rubble. At the roadside a headless doll. Macabre. On the road outside La Strada is a winding trail of tires. Street racing here? On what has been the parking is a pile of rubble. Was not the car park blocked before? On the west side is the moss on the ground torn away by what looks to be a car wheel. Looks newly made. In the little window to the basement are beer cans and liquor bottles. Empty. On the ground beside a broken bottle Renat Vodka is an empty condom packet of brand Eros. In the mud a short distance away lies a condom. If it is an Eros, I can not judge. In my last report, the sealed door was forced. It has since long been nailed. A car sneaks into the parking lot. Why? I see none in it. It is getting darker. Best to leave.

Go there another day. Find condom 2 and 3. Love nest? Someone has thrown plastic gloves, first aid kit, bottled water, promotional piece for a tire company. Oddly. Seeing that a tree in the park to Brunnshög farm has been sawed off, it has probably fallen during one of the storms.

June 30, 2013: Break-in
It's time for a visit to La Strada. My back has its problems, nice to be able to move. The door has been broken up, they have really made an effort. The seal to the window at the top has gone away, it is down on the ground. I'm a little afraid of the dark, so I will not go into. Lupin that grow in the yard have survived the demoliation and flowers. West wall has received an updated graffiti.

Sealed: I have occasionally been at La Strada, the dilapidated former bit of everything place in Lund, to see what happens there. Recently all the derelict buildings was demolished, but the brick house may live on.

What then happened is that one started to clog the windows on the house's upper floor. The roof was sealed. Then one walled the  windows on the ground floor. The remains of the demolished parts is taken away. Now the house is completely sealed, and one can not get into it. It stands there alone, surrounded by a sterile site. Hope one will make something nice useful of the house and the location.

April 1, 2013: I have since several months not had a chance to look at La Strada at Brunnshög, former school, restaurant, hostel, and now in decay with nice graffiti. This morning I took a ride there to see if something happened there, and what do I see .....

The oldest part, which I think was from the 1870s and was a school, have been demolished. It was badly decayed and the roof had collapsed. Also the annexes have been demolished, also these decayed and in addition they were ugly barracks. The large brick building seems to be left untouched.

Too bad about the graffiti. I pick on me a few pieces from a wall in memory of graffiti. Maybe one can do something artistic of them I think. Stupid thought when my artistic talents are equal to one (we had graded 1-5, where 1 was the worst. 0 did not exist, otherwise I would have had it).

I only have time for a short tour in the brick building, a new graffiti since last I see.

January 5, 2013: In the annual review of the local TV news program Sydnytt on New Year's Day, put a failed firework fire on La Strada in the north of Lund. Calm all La Strada likers, it was not real. La Strada remain as it was before the New Year, with it's decay and graffiti, I have just been there. Interestingly, the review  was built around the construction of the MAX IV synchrotron radiation fascility, the light from Lund, and some physics experiments, and at the end a short laser show from the Department of Physics. MAX IV is built behind La Strada. At the construction has one set up a viewing platform from where you can look out over the area.

December 30, 2012: Some time ago it was up signs with "Access forbidden to unauthorized persons." After some thinking, I think I'm qualified for that since I have followed the site for many years. In the newspaper it stood the municipality is planning to buy it for 7.5 million SEK. The plan is to preserve the environment as much as possible.

The municipality wants to buy La Strada

It's probably not for the graffiti. A bit of the old concrete highway passes right outside. On a door is a nameplate: Lundqvist. Who could it have been? I'm starting to go into the brick house. On the floor is "PENUS" written. In a puddle on the floor, is a fishy thing, maybe a sperm? In a heart is the text "Felicia," for my cat? Nah, she spelled her with S. A wall is talking about poo. A garbage can is standing in a corner, do not fit here, perhaps as part of the work? Looking quickly into the pavilion, which has a new painting.

In the backyard is a shed that I have not looked into in the past. On the outside is it decorated, but inside just a mess. The part that collapsed, dare I enter? Keep close to the windows prepared to throw me out. Mushrooms, various shapes, larger paintings are in there. In the annexe is a red squid creature.

A car stops and three men go out and make a movie. Curious, I wonder what they are doing. They make a New Year quiz to a party. La Strada will illustrate a question of doomsday prophecies.

July 22, 2012: The Hostel roof has collapsed. I brought in visitors from the Netherlands. A few days later I see others go in and look. "We passed by just to see us around here". Has La Strada become a tourist attraction? Inside the main building, new works of art have come to be. On the floor is a large footprint. On a wall is a monster head.

February 5, 2012: Make a winter visit to the pavilion that I have not visited before. On the floor debris, including a guitar. On the walls there are some nice graffiti paintings. A strange blue figure. A radiator makes a wall into a work of art. An electrical box is involved in the installation. Studying the grafffitin on the external wall of the hostel part. Walks into the main building, I'm greeted by an unfriendly "Do not come here again."

December 27, 2011: Max IV, the synchrotron lightsource is the latest pride of Lund, is being built across the highway. There should be a visitos platform. Does not see a glimpse of any. Asks the woman in the guard. "It blew down in the storm." How can you build a high-tech research facility if you can not build a stadium that does not blow away? I wonder silently. Walk away to La Strada, a while since last time. Looking gingerly through a broken window, every window is broken. Looks peaceful. The court is even more full of junk than before. The facade has a new color. Inside has one of the interior walls got holes in it. "Do not come here again" is it written on a wall in the main hall. Parts of a chandelier is hanging gloomy from its hook. Realise that I have not been upstairs. On the door to the stairs, the door is standing besides the stairs, it says "KNOCK FIRST!". Finds no reason for it. Sneaking up the stairs. Through a window I look out over the courtyard of what was the hostel. All room walls are covered with graffiti. "Strip Club 40 cents," it says at the entrance to a room. I do not pay. There is no one who strip for me. The walls are decorated with sexy beings. "1 euro for every position," want one to have. Well, it does not seem sufficiently exciting. Looking into the bathroom. I would not use it. Creeping down the stairs again and go out. I have changed my mind, before I wrote that it is as good to tear down the misery. It is a wonderful place, a really splendid work of art it is. I do not like when one mess down public spaces with graffiti and scribble, but here at this beautiful decay does it belong. It should be declared a monument. Let it decay in beauty.

August 3, 2011: At midsummer was there a fire in the hostel section of La Strada. I go in, the floor is more fractured than before. Seems to have been a small fire in one corner. It was certainly a party here, beer cans and wine bottles are lying on the floor. Burned paint cans. In a windowsill is a torch and a few tea lights, surely something like that made the fire. Do I dare me to the basement? A cable goes down into the darkness. The darkness frightens so I go out into the light instead.

2 June 2011:Outside the hostel section blooming lupines. It was this part that burned once. Provisionally nailed together. Looks like it could collapse at any time. Inside, of course, is graffiti. Some interesting, others just scribbles and bad rhyme. In the ceiling blackened beams. Behind is a scrubby backyard.

23/1 2011: The snow has melted. Oops, I forgot a bucket of potsherds and a brush out there. They are beautifully frozen in the frozen water in the bucket. Coming to think of La Strada and the graffiti in there, do not really know why, maybe the brush and the frozen composition associates. Wanders off to La Strada. Going into the brick house. Inside, walls are decorated with graffiti. Some are small others are more worked upon. Some are risqué, as the ejaculateing penis, and the one with the text "with a kiss & a pussy", some are just window with scribble. Through a broken window pane, I see the bulls on top of Klosterängshöjden. It crackles of broken glass when I walk around. On the floor is a shoe without laces, and something that probably was a colour spray can. Going into the hostel's wing. Inside, the ceilings and walls has collapsed. A door fragment is decorated with nature's own graffiti. Leaves the misery.

20/11 2010: Walk over Klosterängsvägen, a rook walks with me. Pass under E22, past the former petrol station, to La Strada, ex- school, restaurant, hostel. For many years now deserted and under constant decay. Scratchy, broken windows, peeling in there and it is collapsing. Many of the provisionally placed boards for the windows and doors are gone. The buildings are gloomy enveloped in fog today. On the road at Brunnshög farm, next to La Strada, is since some time a car, a Ford. Bit by bit, parts disappear and it has been demolished. I continue my walk.

13/2 2010: I feel drowsy. Need some air and an easy walk. Walk the subway under E22 to Ericsson's new parking garage. A large box. I do not think it is neat. Opposite, on the other side the road towards Odarslöv, have they barracks and a today deserted parking lot. Not so nice either. The unmanned petrol station Mac Borje closed a while ago, the gasoline pumps are vandalized. The car dealer, on the other side of the road, has also been shut down. There was always guard dogs, barking at passers-by. The fine milestone at the old highway is left untouched. The schoolhouse from 1910, later the inn La Strada, is abandoned, barricaded, and decayed. Goes behind the house. Here is missing a door. The wind has blown the snow inside the room. Graffiti covers the walls, including one in the form of an ejaculating penis. The building next to it was a hostel for a while. At first, quite nice, I was there and had coffee a few times. Perhaps mismanaged, it was closed. The house was on fire, it has hastily been patched. Has now been so for many years and in decay. I guess on has to tear down the misery. Take the road to Ladugårdsmarken. The barn at uninhabited house Brunnshög burned down some years ago (August 2008). In the barn was kept vintage cars, they were destroyed. After the fire, some were using the ruins as a garbage dump. Now it is completely cleared, from the fire-damaged trees remain stumps. The road is lined with soft snow bank. I visit my marl. I feel sick. Taking my temperature: 38.5.

14/2 2010: Mild fever, indigestion, severe diarrhea. Spend the morning in the bathroom.

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