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Explore #102: Piscine Crachoir, Belgium – September 2014

Explore #1 of the Taking the Piscine Tour The Euro trips kept on coming thick and fast throughout 2014, and next up was a long weekend back to Belgium. We dubbed it “Taking the Piscine” Tour on account of the two swimming pools on our target list. In the end we only managed to get to this one… History This classic swimming pool was built in 1915 during the First World War to keep the local workers from having to…

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Explore #97: Heilstätten Hohenlychen, Germany – August 2014

Explore #9 of the Berlin or Bust Tour Day Three After James and I had spent the morning exploring Beelitz, followed by a flying visit to see the infamous Nazi Eagle at Krampnitz Kaserne, we then headed North of Berlin. We had to abandon our next planned location due to various issues (a stupid amount of barbed wire, too many security milling around, etc) so decided to cut our losses and head quickly on to Hohenlychen. History A superbly written…

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Explore #94d (revisit): Beelitz-Heilstätten – Lung clinics and surgery building, Germany – August 2014

Explore #7 of the Berlin or Bust Tour Day Two After completing our exploration of the Women’s bath house and sanatorium at Beelitz on the second morning of our German roadtrip, James and I then moved on to explore the Women’s lung treatment clinic and surgery buildings. For a history of Beelitz, and many more photos from the Men’s sanatorium and bath house please see my first Beelitz report here. Anyway, on with the photos… As always, click on a…

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