Paris Catacombs
Brief
Firstly I would like to thank Oxygen Thief, Urban Junkie, Tucker, Speed, Fabio and goan for this fantastic explore, this was always going to be an emotional trip for me as its one of the explores I remembered my brother from, but I kept it together, I am going to try and give you every detail of this for you to picture it and experience what it was like for us, some of my pictures where done in flash as it was a nightmare getting camera out for every room setting it up on tripod and doing light painting, you will understand if you ever go here
Explore
I woke up at Miss Horus’s house all excited for this, my long time waiting had come, I set off to my house to get the rest of my things sorted before heading to goan’s, after leaving his we set off for our 5 hour 23 minute journey to Oxygen thief house, We only had miner problems with my sat nav on phone, as it drained the battery but we used goan’s phone so things where all good, traffic was also spot on given us a clean drive to OT’s, finally we got to our destination and met up with OT, I dropped goan off at train station as he was going to London, me and OT took a small drive to Tesco to get the rest of the things we would need and then went back to his for some food and a very small drink and watched Ice Road Truckers
Waking up in the morning I was shattered but yet still full of adrenalin for our long journey to Paris, we got to the train station with only minutes to spare to Waterloo, we then got underground to the St Pancras, where we waited for our Euro train to be ready, we received a text from goan stating he was on train and would meet us there, everything was going smooth, we had a little snooze on train until finally we arrived at Paris Nord, first things first, we needed a smoke, I got roped in to sign this charity sheet for the deaf, I decided to give her 5 Euro’s only for her to show my that the minimum was for 10! What!?! Later I noticed them talking to each other while turning so lip read wasn’t an issue, yep I was scammed!
We waited on goan as OT had received another text from him saying that he missed train and if we where still in London, so we decided to wait and see if he got on the next Euro Star, it come to a point where we had to go get ready and go, we took another stop at the supermarket to get rest of things then headed to the catacombs, walking to the access point I was nervous yet excited, we eventually got in and OT explained that the police patrol certain area’s inside the cata, so we needed to watch our lights etc, after doing crawls and walking some distance we came to the BAS room where we met up with Urban Junkie, Speed, Tucker and oh goan We sat and chilled out for awhile from then.
With OT being the granddad of the group he wanted to get his head down, The experienced explores was going to show us newbs some more place's in the combs until OT was ready to meet up with us.
After walking/ducking and crawling for almost 2 hours we came to our destination where we where meeting up with OT, we chilled there and had some food until OT arrived and then come up with a plan of sleeping arrangements and where it was going to be, by then I was looking forward to this all the traveling was taking its toll on me, we eventually came to a decision and set off to it
When arriving we sat up for a little while taking and having a small drink before heading to bed were we slept for a long worth 12 hours, we woke up to a dark room which felt very strange chilled and had breakfast, this give me time to take some light painting pictures.
This was OT's and Speeds sleeping quarters, the strange green glow I can only imagine was their socks
Brief
Firstly I would like to thank Oxygen Thief, Urban Junkie, Tucker, Speed, Fabio and goan for this fantastic explore, this was always going to be an emotional trip for me as its one of the explores I remembered my brother from, but I kept it together, I am going to try and give you every detail of this for you to picture it and experience what it was like for us, some of my pictures where done in flash as it was a nightmare getting camera out for every room setting it up on tripod and doing light painting, you will understand if you ever go here
Explore
I woke up at Miss Horus’s house all excited for this, my long time waiting had come, I set off to my house to get the rest of my things sorted before heading to goan’s, after leaving his we set off for our 5 hour 23 minute journey to Oxygen thief house, We only had miner problems with my sat nav on phone, as it drained the battery but we used goan’s phone so things where all good, traffic was also spot on given us a clean drive to OT’s, finally we got to our destination and met up with OT, I dropped goan off at train station as he was going to London, me and OT took a small drive to Tesco to get the rest of the things we would need and then went back to his for some food and a very small drink and watched Ice Road Truckers
Waking up in the morning I was shattered but yet still full of adrenalin for our long journey to Paris, we got to the train station with only minutes to spare to Waterloo, we then got underground to the St Pancras, where we waited for our Euro train to be ready, we received a text from goan stating he was on train and would meet us there, everything was going smooth, we had a little snooze on train until finally we arrived at Paris Nord, first things first, we needed a smoke, I got roped in to sign this charity sheet for the deaf, I decided to give her 5 Euro’s only for her to show my that the minimum was for 10! What!?! Later I noticed them talking to each other while turning so lip read wasn’t an issue, yep I was scammed!
We waited on goan as OT had received another text from him saying that he missed train and if we where still in London, so we decided to wait and see if he got on the next Euro Star, it come to a point where we had to go get ready and go, we took another stop at the supermarket to get rest of things then headed to the catacombs, walking to the access point I was nervous yet excited, we eventually got in and OT explained that the police patrol certain area’s inside the cata, so we needed to watch our lights etc, after doing crawls and walking some distance we came to the BAS room where we met up with Urban Junkie, Speed, Tucker and oh goan
We sat and chilled out for awhile from then.
With OT being the granddad of the group he wanted to get his head down, The experienced explores was going to show us newbs some more place's in the combs until OT was ready to meet up with us.
After walking/ducking and crawling for almost 2 hours we came to our destination where we where meeting up with OT, we chilled there and had some food until OT arrived and then come up with a plan of sleeping arrangements and where it was going to be, by then I was looking forward to this all the traveling was taking its toll on me, we eventually came to a decision and set off to it
When arriving we sat up for a little while taking and having a small drink before heading to bed were we slept for a long worth 12 hours, we woke up to a dark room which felt very strange chilled and had breakfast, this give me time to take some light painting pictures.
This was OT's and Speeds sleeping quarters, the strange green glow I can only imagine was their socks
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