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Explore #102: Piscine Crachoir, Belgium – September 2014

Explore #1 of the Taking the Piscine Tour The Euro trips kept on coming thick and fast throughout 2014, and next up was a long weekend back to Belgium. We dubbed it “Taking the Piscine” Tour on account of the two swimming pools on our target list. In the end we only managed to get to this one… History This classic swimming pool was built in 1915 during the First World War to keep the local workers from having to…

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Explore #101: Rooftop THM, London – September 2014

After climbing Battersea Gas Holder #7 we then moved on to this rooftop on London’s South Bank. I can’t say much about this place – the views were great, but our exit was very stressful whilst also being highly memorable. I will probably tell my grandchildren all the details one day, but can’t share them on the internet- suffice to say that it involved half-finished stairwells, dead ends, unbelievably narrow escapes from security, and much more! These definitely look best…

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Explore #100: Battersea Gas Holder #7, London – September 2014

The hundred up. One hundred different locations successfully explored (not including revisits or failures) in 384 days since my very first explore at Rock N Roll Farm. That’s an average of nearly two new locations a week – I think it’s safe to say I’m quite into this urban exploration lark… After my “Berlin or Bust” roadtrip to Germany (see my recent reports) it was back to the UK – this time meeting up with a few old and soon-to-be-new…

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