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 #4 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Day Two was the centrepiece explore of our long weekend – the other sites we had lined up were all great in their own ways, but this one was an absolute beast – a huge decomissioned steel works which once boasted no fewer than six blast furnaces… History (translated and rewritten from here and here) The presence of iron ore in the region was exploited back to Roman times, if not earlier. The…
Explore #3 of the ‘Greased Otters Tour’ Next up was a relatively quick look around the remains of a rusting coking plant… History I don’t know a huge amount about this site, other than that it apparently formed part of the vast Arcelor Mittal (formerly Cockerill Sambre) owned Haut Fourneau 6 (HF6) steelworks. The blast furnace was demolished a couple of years ago, but this part clings on amongst the razor wire and overgrowth… Our Explore This was another relatively…
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