Belgium

Explore #63: Lycée V, Belgium – June 2014

Explore #8 of the Operation Baguette tour It was only 7.15am when we arrived at what was already our second location of the day – this abandoned school, located slap-bang in the middle of a busy Belgian town. I haven’t been able to locate much history on this place, other than it used to be a girls’ school and now it’s closed and is being slowly reclaimed by nature. The light, colours and textures of this place had always really…

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Explore #62: Chateau d’Ah, Belgium – June 2014

Explore #7 of the Operation Baguette tour Our first explore of the third and final day of our France and Belgium weekender was this abandoned house, nestled amongst woodland in a small Belgian town. The principal reason for of our visit was to see the attractive staircase, but my shots from here are pretty rubbish so it’s going to be a short report this time. In my defence it was still dark when we arrived, and I hadn’t really woken…

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Explore #51: Chateau de Noisy (aka Chateau Miranda), Belgium – April 2014

Explore #9 of the 3 Eurovirgins and a Europro tour The sixth and final explore of Day Two was only just behind the CDC on my most wanted list – a “fairytale” derelict castle buried deep in the Belgian countryside. As with the CDC I found myself holding back my excitement beforehand in case we failed – stories of the psychopathic groundsman and his shotgun are (in)famous in the urban exploration community! However, as we started to make our way…

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