Explore #8 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour On my final morning in Georgia, I bade a fond farewell to my exploring buddies and got a lift for the 3 hour journey to the airport with a friend of a friend’s father’s friend! The chap in question was a 60 year old Georgian who spoke as much English as I spoke Russian, but we still managed a very broken but enjoyable conversation of sorts by using lots of sign language and…
Explore #5 of the ‘Lightweights & Heavyweights’ Tour The final explore of our long weekend in and around Budapest was a gorgeous neo-baroque ‘palace’… History (abridged and rewritten from here and here) Built between 1900 and 1902, the Adria Palace was designed by Artúr Meinig as the headquarters of the Adria Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Company. It has a twin building in the Croatian port of Rijeka which still retains it original function, being the headquarters of the Jadrolinija shipping…
Explore #4 of the ‘Lightweights & Heavyweights’ Tour After our impromptu but very enjoyable mooch around Hajmaskér Barracks we headed back in the late afternoon to have another crack at infiltrating this large decaying power plant. A recce earlier in the day had been aborted due to numerous workers being on site undertaking demolition works. History (translated, abridged and rewritten from Wikipedia) Construction of the Inota thermal power plant began in March 1950, with the installation of various technical equipment…
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