It has been a very long time since I posted anything on any forum so it needed to be something special...here it is.
Well this was my first trip back to the urbex delights of Europe this year and it is one that I won't forget for a while, infact I am still nursing a stomach that feels like it has taken body blows from Mike Tyson thanks to a nice dose of food poisoning.
This particular explore was a true example of why proper planning always pays off. Armed with only Gmaps to go from there was no way to know we had to be mountaineers or find another down. As time was short and I was feeling less than well following a dodgey pizza the night before we decided mountaineering it was.
For some reason I decided to go first, clambering down hoping to glimpse the Station I had only seen from overhead and also ensuring that I didn't arrive at my target site ahead of schedule
Eventually there is was and it was all I had imagined suitably grand yet understated, the castle structure looked imposing.
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Built in the late 1800's to service the recently converted castle above the station was closed the same year that King Leapold II died. The castle above is long gone, burning down in the 1960's yet the station does give you some idea as to how grand it must have been. The photo's now taken I looked back at the climb and started questioning what I had been thinking, I questioned this once again when I was half way up my "shortened easy" route. I stopped and slumped down with exhaustion I could feel my heart pounding in my ears, looking down I had only one choice to continue up my chosen route which looked steeper and steeper with every carefully chosen step. Eventually I was back on top of the mountain, I collapsed and took the time to catch my breath...it was worth every step. Explored in the good company of UrbanX, Mr Dan and Coverturbex.
Well this was my first trip back to the urbex delights of Europe this year and it is one that I won't forget for a while, infact I am still nursing a stomach that feels like it has taken body blows from Mike Tyson thanks to a nice dose of food poisoning.
This particular explore was a true example of why proper planning always pays off. Armed with only Gmaps to go from there was no way to know we had to be mountaineers or find another down. As time was short and I was feeling less than well following a dodgey pizza the night before we decided mountaineering it was.
For some reason I decided to go first, clambering down hoping to glimpse the Station I had only seen from overhead and also ensuring that I didn't arrive at my target site ahead of schedule
Eventually there is was and it was all I had imagined suitably grand yet understated, the castle structure looked imposing.
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Built in the late 1800's to service the recently converted castle above the station was closed the same year that King Leapold II died. The castle above is long gone, burning down in the 1960's yet the station does give you some idea as to how grand it must have been. The photo's now taken I looked back at the climb and started questioning what I had been thinking, I questioned this once again when I was half way up my "shortened easy" route. I stopped and slumped down with exhaustion I could feel my heart pounding in my ears, looking down I had only one choice to continue up my chosen route which looked steeper and steeper with every carefully chosen step. Eventually I was back on top of the mountain, I collapsed and took the time to catch my breath...it was worth every step. Explored in the good company of UrbanX, Mr Dan and Coverturbex.
