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Explore #121: Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria – January 2015

I’ve got another one of my XXL supersized reports for you this time – the tale of three days spent up a snowy mountain top in the wilds of Bulgaria to see this little beauty… There were a few sore heads and bleary eyes the morning after our boozy arrival in Plovdiv and my late night explore of an ancient Roman amphitheatre, but we loaded up our hire cars and drove through the uninspiring Bulgarian lowlands towards something far more…

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Explore #119: Odeon Cinema, Colchester, Essex – January 2015

After our all-too brief revisit to Severalls Asylum and a traditional post-explore breakfast at McDonald’s, we decided to pay an impromptu visit to this old cinema… History The Odeon cinema, formerly the Regal cinema, was built in 1931 and designed by well-known cinema architect Cecil Masey. As well as showing films the cinema also hosted live events, including the Rolling Stones who played two shows there in September 1964. In the 1970s it was known as the Odeon Film Centre,…

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Explores #101a(revisit) and #118: Rooftops THM and LB, London – New Year’s Eve 2014/15

The fireworks over central London on 31 December 2013 looked very impressive on TV, but I knew that I wanted to see them first-hand on 31 December 2014… I also knew that I didn’t want to spend New Year’s Eve stuck in crowds for hours on end, so decided to hook up with a couple of good exploring buddies and try our luck with getting on a rooftop for a more exclusive and loftier vantage point! Our Explores James and…

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