kts' European Vacation, part 5
In my last tale I mentioned how we headed off to parts unknown. I
forgot that before we arrived at our hotel we tried to take shots of
one more location, a train station depo that is home ton a ton of
abandoned trains. Due to the very, very long drive I was beat so I
ended up taking a nap inside the car while hobos and rail yard workers
walked past my car ignoring me while mANVIL and msb took photos of
trains.
Trains suck.
The following morning we woke up early yet again to see some pretty
famous forges, the Forges De Clabecq. Under going the world's slowest
demolition since 2008 or maybe before it looks like they are finally
going to be gone soon, if they aren't already. dsankt went there a
few months before we did and comparing his photos to ours a lot of the
place has been demolished in the 6 months or so between his visit and
ours.
In fact someone got this pretty nifty video of the first blast furnace
being demolished here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKgobric9M
A very cool place to finally see with my own eyes. We apparently got
there during an early morning lunch break since maybe 45 minutes into
our visit the site roared up with activity again from the rally
driving security guard to a ton of workers moving heavy machinery all
over the place. We tried to keep ourselves hidden and then made our
exit having missed a large part of the facility closer to where the
demo work was going on.
After getting my fancy UE polo shirt caught on the fence here and
tearing a big hole in the back of it we headed off for a fun drive
through the country which eventually landed us at a large (compared to
the rest of the town around it) brewery. While the neighborhood was
packed with what looked to be a large turkish population somehow we
fit in naturally with our pale skin and tripods. They ignored us as
we walked past the open gate and into a complex that looks like it
could be used for a WW2 film set.
So many glorious bottles
He hit the road for more sites and had a few failures. Lots of
activity, freshly boarded/welded doors and windows and a few wrong
directions from the GPS. As it was getting dark we hit up our last
spot, a large hospital complex where at times it was hard to tell what
was abandoned and what was active. Being tired and lazy we took a
look at a few of them sans tripods and then headed out. After seeing
some photos from inside of these places I wish we had explored them a
bit more and taken photos. All I got was this one exterior.
With darkness coming we headed back to Chateau Formule 1 where we
cleaned up and headed off to Chez Doner Kebab to have the best meal
ever and laugh with the owner of the place who found it hysterical
that 3 guys from the US would keep coming back to his Doner Kebab
place.
In my last tale I mentioned how we headed off to parts unknown. I
forgot that before we arrived at our hotel we tried to take shots of
one more location, a train station depo that is home ton a ton of
abandoned trains. Due to the very, very long drive I was beat so I
ended up taking a nap inside the car while hobos and rail yard workers
walked past my car ignoring me while mANVIL and msb took photos of
trains.
Trains suck.
The following morning we woke up early yet again to see some pretty
famous forges, the Forges De Clabecq. Under going the world's slowest
demolition since 2008 or maybe before it looks like they are finally
going to be gone soon, if they aren't already. dsankt went there a
few months before we did and comparing his photos to ours a lot of the
place has been demolished in the 6 months or so between his visit and
ours.
In fact someone got this pretty nifty video of the first blast furnace
being demolished here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKgobric9M
A very cool place to finally see with my own eyes. We apparently got
there during an early morning lunch break since maybe 45 minutes into
our visit the site roared up with activity again from the rally
driving security guard to a ton of workers moving heavy machinery all
over the place. We tried to keep ourselves hidden and then made our
exit having missed a large part of the facility closer to where the
demo work was going on.
After getting my fancy UE polo shirt caught on the fence here and
tearing a big hole in the back of it we headed off for a fun drive
through the country which eventually landed us at a large (compared to
the rest of the town around it) brewery. While the neighborhood was
packed with what looked to be a large turkish population somehow we
fit in naturally with our pale skin and tripods. They ignored us as
we walked past the open gate and into a complex that looks like it
could be used for a WW2 film set.
So many glorious bottles
He hit the road for more sites and had a few failures. Lots of
activity, freshly boarded/welded doors and windows and a few wrong
directions from the GPS. As it was getting dark we hit up our last
spot, a large hospital complex where at times it was hard to tell what
was abandoned and what was active. Being tired and lazy we took a
look at a few of them sans tripods and then headed out. After seeing
some photos from inside of these places I wish we had explored them a
bit more and taken photos. All I got was this one exterior.
With darkness coming we headed back to Chateau Formule 1 where we
cleaned up and headed off to Chez Doner Kebab to have the best meal
ever and laugh with the owner of the place who found it hysterical
that 3 guys from the US would keep coming back to his Doner Kebab
place.
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