Photos tagged with "Underground"

Albums tagged with "Underground"

Improvised Drain Meet 2009

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Somewhere under Paris, two Russians, one American, one Aussie, and two Frenchmen try to keep their balance in a dirty, wet, and slippery round concrete pipe. There are just two torches for the six of us, and the less equipped ones wear sandals. While the Brits...

July 2009 | 6 photos

Barcelonnette, final stop

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The tunnel de Saint-Martin-La-Blache was part of a huge project to connect Barcelonnette to the French rail network. The engineering works started around 1910, and finished only after the WWI. After countless years of wasted efforts and money, the whole project was finally canceled in...

December 2008 | 3 photos

Portland

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After a rather quiet visit to Isle of Portland a couple of weeks before, I needed to go back for the real deal! Tom, a local, took me on a private tour. We first went to the RNAS helicopter control tower. The access wasn’t easy, but...

July 2008 | 5 photos

Fort du Haut Buc

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As planned, Olivier and I went back to the Fort du Haut Buc for a more thorough exploration. We started by the derelict Thomson warehouses before carrying on to the fort itself. We actually visited most of it during a previous explore, but this was our...

May 2008 | 6 photos

Under the golf

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Wentworth Golf Course is seriously hype: it hosts three pro tournaments a year. In comparison, much less is known about the air raid shelter that lies beneath. The media and I don’t usually focus on the same subjects: Starting to guess what happens next? After getting...

April 2008 | 2 photos