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This is a link post I went to Chernobyl. It was freaky I made this!
I enjoy going on holiday to places that are, well, a bit off the beaten track. So I thought, if I can survive Best Korea, then I can easily survive Chernobyl and Pripyat.

Danger, Chernobyl

Creepiest bit was definitely the abandoned schools. Half-done school work strewn about the place and toys just left there.

Zalissa, Chernobyl

Oh, and Kiev is freaking amazing. Love that city. Very cheap too, and of course not many other tourists (although there's no reason to avoid it at all - it's just as safe as any other European capital).
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 9:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post I was dropping three on a giegercounter after radio therapy.
You'll be fine, just don't have any child bearing shags in the next six months.
 (Spin Its a thing., Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Got a bigger radiation dose on the flight to Kiev than in the exclusion zone
And anyway, the whole child bearing shag thing really isn't going to happen.


 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post *Drops Monocle*

(Spin Its a thing., Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post
By the way, you were probably getting readings in millisieverts, whereas we were firmly in the microsievert range.

xkcd.com/radiation/
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:30, , Reply)
This is a normal post oh lol.
Your photos are amazing btw, you big bender.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:12, , Reply)
This is a normal post heehee
It's like the Bat Signal. "I must go, b3ta needs me"

And thank you for complimenting the photos, you big bender.

*bums* etc
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post FUCK
I should have called it the Tab Signal. How did I miss that?
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 21:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post You never say that about my photos.
And I'm ALWAYS complementing your calendar shots.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post /secretgayclub
Nah, only joking: Your photos are shit.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post pfft

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha

(pissflaps. FSPW, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 13:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post nice
that radar tower thing is fucking massive
 (I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:09, , Reply)
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I was using the widest angle lens I could afford. Still couldn't even get half of it in.

To give you an idea of the scale, make the Eiffel Tower about 50% taller, then knock it over.

When the wind blows past the antenna, it makes a sound a bit like an aeroplane passing by in the distance.
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Amazing thing. There's a YouTube video of someone climbing it - it really is massive!

(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post holy moly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l_4fzJv_i0

re my comment about the plane noises: standing in Pripyat I realised that something was missing - sound. You're right in the middle of a town, and you hear no talking, no footsteps, no cars, no planes overhead.
Just the wind and the occasional sounds of your fellow tourists.
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 12:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah
'cept the eiffel tower is twice as tall..
 (MayorBoris, Wed 1 Jul 2015, 7:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wonderful photos.
Big clickage.
 (I helped save b3ta! Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post cheers, breaddie

(I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post That cat only has two eyes, I am disappoint :(
Lovely pictures, which was the radar tower? I couldn't see something that looked that massive?
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a page 2.
Here's the tower. My mates at the bottom of the pic aren't exactly tiny either
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 10:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ah yes, page 2...
That was merely a test...
 (robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Top eye candy

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post ta, fadgey

(I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post Incredible stuff
Bonus points for the picture of the green Moskovich
Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 11:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post so that's what car it is!
thank you, erg!
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 12:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post My Dad had a yellow one in the early 80s
It was shite
 (I helped save b3ta! ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 13:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post it may have been shite
but I bet it could be fixed with nothing more than a hammer.
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 14:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Those cats appear perfectly normal...
I can only assume that their mutations chose to manifest themselves as psychic powers then?
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 12:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not at all.
The cats are wonderful. Everything is normal.


They are DEFINITELY not here to take over the world with their psychic powers.

Return to your duties, human.
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 13:08, , Reply)
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yikes! the cats' hypnotic powers are stronger than we expected.
 (softporn 70's sink fixer, Tue 30 Jun 2015, 14:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Clicks
I went a couple of yrs ago and loved it. Did you make it to the Great Patriotic War Museum in Kyiv too?
 (I helped save b3ta! joetotale blear-e'ed, wither'd spectre, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 22:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not this time
But I did about 6 years ago last time I went to Kiev. I wanted to go to Chernobyl that time but my co-travellers weren't interested.
 (I helped save b3ta! admiral crunch holds the newsreader's nose squarely, Mon 29 Jun 2015, 22:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Lucky Bastard
I went to Ukraine last month but my wife wouldn't let me go to Pripyat. I even took my big camera with me just in case she changed her mind.

Mind you she had to live through it so I can understand why the locals think this tourism is a bit strange.

Rather than admit the problem and distribute Potassium Iodate to save their health the bastard government lied, and then countered rumours and radiation readings with a story about the Dutch having a nuclear accident. My missus was shipped to Kiev for the May Day parade as a Komsomol school kid and says there was a strange yellow rain falling on them.

I thought Kiev was really expensive - in Lviv we went out for a slap up meal at the best place in town (foi gras for my main thank you), with wine, and then on to the opera with the best seats in the hose, all for £35 for two.
 (strongp, Wed 1 Jul 2015, 17:02, , Reply)