Explore #9 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ Sorry for the long delay since my last post – it’s been a busy couple of months at work, home, and on holiday! I’ve got the next batch of reports from my never-ending backlog coming up now – first a short and sweet one from this little gem. I think it was a former guesthouse/lodge in a picturesque alpine region of East Germany. As always, click on a photo to VIEW LARGE…
Explore #8 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ Next up in the gorgeous alpine landscape of Eastern Germany was this abandoned hotel which apparently never even opened… History (rewritten from here) Originally built in 1905 as a sanatorium, during the post war years of East Germany it was owned by the Free German Trade Union Federation (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund /FDGB). After reunification the building was sold, but development into a hotel stalled and the hotel never opened. It lay disused…
Explore #5 of ‘The Picnics & Palaces Tour’ The afternoon of this explore was one of my favourite times on our whole week-long tour through East Germany and Poland. The sun was shining, we’d already had a couple of successful explores under our belts that morning, and were all in great spirits as we rocked out to this ace piece of German hip hop (really!) on the local radio whilst driving through some beautiful alpine countryside. I hope I get…
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