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Explores #88 and #88a (revisit): Alla Italia health spa, Belgium – August and September 2014

November 28, 2014

Explore #11 of the Gigawatts & Megalolz Tour The final day of our Belgian weekender was another stupidly early start, so that we could make our entrance to this beautiful former spa whilst still under the cover of darkness. As with The Grand Hotel Regnier I also ended up paying a revisit to this location a month or so later, so have combined my shots from both visits into this single report. History I can’t say much about this location,…

Explore #87 and #87a (revisit): Grand Hotel Regnier, Belgium – August and September 2014

November 10, 2014

Adam X

Belgium, Derps and Miscellaneous, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Palaces, Castles & Mansions, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #9 of the Gigawatts & Megalolz Tour The penultimate location on Day Two of our trip was this wonderful old hotel, set in a beautiful gorge in the South Belgian countryside. History The Grand Hotel Regnier was built around 1904, but sadly it has been closed for many years since the business went bust. The elderly owner still lives nearby, and mourns the continuing and inevitable decline of this once grand building. Our Explore I had wanted to visit…

Explore #64: Prison 11, Belgium – June 2014

July 14, 2014

Adam X

Belgium, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Military Sites

Explore #9 of the Operation Baguette tour After a thoroughly enjoyable explore of Lycée V it was straight on to the third location of the day at this former army barracks. For some reason the site is codenamed ‘Prison 11’ by European urbexers – possibly because of the small outbuilding which has some very old cells where unruly soldiers were once interned? History The barracks on this site date back to the late 1800s, with great emphasis placed on the…