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 ‘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…
Explore #2 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ After our permission visit of Kraftwerk Plessa it was time to get down to some ‘proper’ exploring at another huge decaying powerplant with an equally impressive control room… History This large coal-fired powerplant was built in the 1930s, and expanded substantially after the Second World War to help meet East Germany’s growing energy needs. As with many other such plants it closed down in the 1990s. Today it sits empty, partially stripped…
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