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Right the last report from my holiday to france with the wife and kids, after the cold war bomb dump it was back to a 1800`s French fort, now that`s not bad, 200 years of history in one day.
So off I go with Drum and Bass banging on the old iphone and the satnav doing it`s best to cope with French roads, Fort de Dampierre is located to the east of the small freanch town
of the same name.
As with other french forts there is a road (Well it`s what the French call a bloody road)the leads right up to the gate, oh yes the gate, that would be the one with the red and white sign
saying military training area keep out, but thank heavens I don`t speak french so for all I know it said "DON`T LOCK YOUR BIKE TO THIS TREE"
This is what awaits you when you go under the small gate and walk to the main entrance.
Through this it another dry F****g ditch and a steel door, a big steel door, a very very very big and LOCKED steel door.
But where there is a will there is a way..
This is looking back down the entrance tunnel, there are rooms off to the left and right and steps and all sorts of cool stuff BUT....
when you turn around this is what you are faced with - - - - - - - EPIC
This just blew me away, in the above picture there is a dark passage in the far distance, when you go through this it goes two way,
1 - A 300yd down slopping tunnel to the dry ditch cuponia
2 - The picture below
Now this site is way bigger than I could have ever thought, the next shot is at the bottom of the Cuponia tunnel.
now some odds and end shots from a great wander around.
Now after I came out of the wash room I went through a large room with light coming through from a door way some way off in the distance, you could tell you were in a very big space
but because of the fact it was pitch black you could not make out any detail, que the good old Lenser P7, when I turned my torch on and saw what the room consisted of I was routed
to the spot and speechless, It`s not often in this hobby that you get to see such a fantastic sight.
This Fort is huge plain and simple, and I only saw part of it, you could spend hours and hours in there.
Thanks for looking there are more pictures on my FlickR page so pop over to :-https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157646219039968/
All comments are most welcome, time to head home ....
I WILL RETURN
Cheers Newage
Right the last report from my holiday to france with the wife and kids, after the cold war bomb dump it was back to a 1800`s French fort, now that`s not bad, 200 years of history in one day.
So off I go with Drum and Bass banging on the old iphone and the satnav doing it`s best to cope with French roads, Fort de Dampierre is located to the east of the small freanch town
of the same name.
As with other french forts there is a road (Well it`s what the French call a bloody road)the leads right up to the gate, oh yes the gate, that would be the one with the red and white sign
saying military training area keep out, but thank heavens I don`t speak french so for all I know it said "DON`T LOCK YOUR BIKE TO THIS TREE"
This is what awaits you when you go under the small gate and walk to the main entrance.
Through this it another dry F****g ditch and a steel door, a big steel door, a very very very big and LOCKED steel door.
But where there is a will there is a way..
This is looking back down the entrance tunnel, there are rooms off to the left and right and steps and all sorts of cool stuff BUT....
when you turn around this is what you are faced with - - - - - - - EPIC
This just blew me away, in the above picture there is a dark passage in the far distance, when you go through this it goes two way,
1 - A 300yd down slopping tunnel to the dry ditch cuponia
2 - The picture below
Now this site is way bigger than I could have ever thought, the next shot is at the bottom of the Cuponia tunnel.
now some odds and end shots from a great wander around.
Now after I came out of the wash room I went through a large room with light coming through from a door way some way off in the distance, you could tell you were in a very big space
but because of the fact it was pitch black you could not make out any detail, que the good old Lenser P7, when I turned my torch on and saw what the room consisted of I was routed
to the spot and speechless, It`s not often in this hobby that you get to see such a fantastic sight.
This Fort is huge plain and simple, and I only saw part of it, you could spend hours and hours in there.
Thanks for looking there are more pictures on my FlickR page so pop over to :-https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157646219039968/
All comments are most welcome, time to head home ....
I WILL RETURN
Cheers Newage
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