Trans Europe Express - July 2012.
Last year, Thompski, James, RaptorJesus and I roadtripped to the Ruhrgebiet in Germany. On our return to the UK we found that we’d only scratched the surface of the goodies that lay there, so immediately began planning the next jaunt... This is a roundup of some of the sites visited in our week of European travelling across Belgium, Holland, Germany, Luxembourg & France. There’ll be some full reports to follow.
Our prime targets were the German and French mines of the Ruhr, Saar & Moselle regions that have been left behind after the sharp decline in European coal production over the last 15 or so years.
We loaded up RJ’s Unmarked Taxi™ and headed towards the continent...
Aside from the mines that were planned, there were a few little bonuses on the way through Belgium:
St Hilarius.
A former monastery on the outskirts of a major Belgian City. I couldn’t really see why it was so funny, especially with the 6 foot tall security nettles stinging the shit out of our faces on the way in.
Laboratoires d’ horreur.
We’d had a little walk around here last year without fruit, however this time we managed to find a way inside. An eerily strange and somewhat disconcerting place, especially “that room†in the basement filled wall to wall with semi-recognisable animal parts. The smell is something to behold.
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Last year, Thompski, James, RaptorJesus and I roadtripped to the Ruhrgebiet in Germany. On our return to the UK we found that we’d only scratched the surface of the goodies that lay there, so immediately began planning the next jaunt... This is a roundup of some of the sites visited in our week of European travelling across Belgium, Holland, Germany, Luxembourg & France. There’ll be some full reports to follow.
Our prime targets were the German and French mines of the Ruhr, Saar & Moselle regions that have been left behind after the sharp decline in European coal production over the last 15 or so years.
We loaded up RJ’s Unmarked Taxi™ and headed towards the continent...
Aside from the mines that were planned, there were a few little bonuses on the way through Belgium:
St Hilarius.
A former monastery on the outskirts of a major Belgian City. I couldn’t really see why it was so funny, especially with the 6 foot tall security nettles stinging the shit out of our faces on the way in.
Laboratoires d’ horreur.
We’d had a little walk around here last year without fruit, however this time we managed to find a way inside. An eerily strange and somewhat disconcerting place, especially “that room†in the basement filled wall to wall with semi-recognisable animal parts. The smell is something to behold.
Cont...