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Explore #84: Powerplant Gigawatt, aka XL aka The Cloud Factory, Belgium – August 2014

November 2, 2014

Belgium, Industrial & Commercial Sites, Recommended Reports - some selected highlights

Explore #6 of the Gigawatts & Megalolz Tour After racking up 5 successful explores on day one of the trip the beers that night hit us hard – with the lack of sleep on top we were all pretty merry after about 3 of the premium local beers! So much so that Dan decided that it would be hilarious if he slept al fresco on our balcony that night… …although after much childish giggling and taking of photos we did…

Explore #6: Dereham Maltings (Crisp Malting Group), Dereham, Norfolk – September 2013

September 18, 2013

Adam X

Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

What better way to spend a glorious sunny afternoon with your wife than by crawling around in truly industrial quantities of spider webs and pigeon crap in the almost-to-total pitch black. Despite having our P3 masks firmly on throughout, I don’t think I’ll forget the less than pleasant atmosphere for a while. I also managed to gash my wrist on some broken glass right at the start of the explore. With the first aid kit in the car, and my…

Explore #4: Gas Holder, Norwich, Norfolk – September 2013

September 9, 2013

Adam X

Industrial & Commercial Sites, United Kingdom

This was a local explore with friend and fellow photography enthusiast Mr EOV. We hadn’t done much of a recce of access to the site in advance, other than a drive by which had confirmed 8 ft+ palisade fencing. Unfortunately we did this explore on a “school night” (i.e. a weekday evening), and by the time we arrived it was no longer the early dusk for which we had been planning, but pretty much dark. Getting in and out of the site…