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…
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…
Explore #8 of the Berlin or Bust Tour Day Three After spending the morning finishing off our exploring of the Beelitz Women’s Sanatorium and lung clinic and surgery building we made a very quick stopover at this site whilst heading to another location further North. History (Adapted from wikipedia) Krampnitz Kaserne is a former military complex of over 50 buildings in Potsdam, Germany. The site was used by the German army from 1937, when the cavalry moved its school from…
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