As you may know I(Rick) have a short attention span and even though we are
travelling the world it seems looking at Architecture isn’t enough.
So we have been looking for some adventurous things to do while travelling and it turns out that there are hundreds of abandoned buildings around Europe and there are groups online of Urban Explorers that get the craps and giggles from “entering” these old falling down places and taking pictures.. Seems like a perfect activity on a sunny afternoon for two adrenalin hungry New Zealanders.
So we jumped off the tram near these two old buildings on the out skirts of Prague. We were pretty nervous as we walked around the buildings and scoped them out. The gates at front were tall and locked however around the back there was great access.. over a railway and through a sprawling overgrown garden of what must of been poison Ivy and stinging nettle and bidybids. Camera in hand we crept around the side of the 3 story house, obviously the owners had been trying to keep squatters out and had concreted all the windows to the basement.
We found one that had been smashed in and poked our heads into the dark. The putrid and hideous smell of Urine lead us to not hang around that door way and continue to the first floor. We were quietly freaking out until we saw the obvious signs of squatters, clothes up drying, empty bottles and trush everywhere. I took one crappy frame of the dark hall way and we looked at each other. We turned and rushed back through the weeds and garden toward the other house on the same property. Legs scratched and burning from the stinging nettle and no useable path to the other house we decided to give up.
Our 5 minutes as urban Explorers was short lived but exhilarating. We would gather reinforcements try again in another place.
Rick
So we have been looking for some adventurous things to do while travelling and it turns out that there are hundreds of abandoned buildings around Europe and there are groups online of Urban Explorers that get the craps and giggles from “entering” these old falling down places and taking pictures.. Seems like a perfect activity on a sunny afternoon for two adrenalin hungry New Zealanders.
So we jumped off the tram near these two old buildings on the out skirts of Prague. We were pretty nervous as we walked around the buildings and scoped them out. The gates at front were tall and locked however around the back there was great access.. over a railway and through a sprawling overgrown garden of what must of been poison Ivy and stinging nettle and bidybids. Camera in hand we crept around the side of the 3 story house, obviously the owners had been trying to keep squatters out and had concreted all the windows to the basement.
We found one that had been smashed in and poked our heads into the dark. The putrid and hideous smell of Urine lead us to not hang around that door way and continue to the first floor. We were quietly freaking out until we saw the obvious signs of squatters, clothes up drying, empty bottles and trush everywhere. I took one crappy frame of the dark hall way and we looked at each other. We turned and rushed back through the weeds and garden toward the other house on the same property. Legs scratched and burning from the stinging nettle and no useable path to the other house we decided to give up.
Our 5 minutes as urban Explorers was short lived but exhilarating. We would gather reinforcements try again in another place.
Rick
1 comment:
Haha, love it!
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