Sunday, July 13, 2008

Chernobyl revisited... or visited for the first time in fact

I finally put my money where my mouth is and went to Ukraine to visit Chernobyl in person, along with a bunch of plane spotters (gorgeous Tupolev-104 at Kiev Aviation museum by the way).

I must admit to not being particularly well prepared... or rested. So I tried to grab a few photos with my phone. The others all had fancy SLRs and the like. I'll grab a few off them in time, particularly of Pripyat where I didn't get anything. But in the mean time, here is what I got. It covers the basics.


Dare thee enter the Zone?

(Suggest viewing it in Firefox. IE isn't paying attention to anything I say.)

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Piper Alpha - 20 years on

Watch the memorial.

(Picture from geograph.org.uk until I get down to Hazlehead Park to get my own.)