Life’s an ocean with too much commotion

Yesterday we’ve visited an abandoned site in Goetsenhoven, a military domain that used to function as a teaching school for flying small air planes. Only a part of the site has been abandoned, there is still military activity present in this area. This made it harder to completely go wild

When we initially arrived there, the site was completely lined with barbed wire. Despite of that, the place was still a mess. There were several buildings in the area that functioned as a gym, places to sleep, classes, a hangar for trucks and cars and two big office buildings. The only interesting building on this site was the first one, a long building with a kitchen, probably a weapon depot (or is it just my imagination..), a bar and a washing area.

Every building we’ve visited had used bullets (blanks) spread around the floor. Other interesting things we’ve found were some pamphlets containing procedures when finding a bomb and talking with terrorists. Glass was broken, doors were hit down on the ground, the ceiling began to rot.

In the first building, someone put some red paint on the wall, which resulted in a super composition for a picture.

What really made me feel bad, is the fact that these buildings itself were still in a pretty good state. It took a lot of money (tax money) for constructing these buildings, and the government is just letting them rot. All you hear on the news today is that they don’t have enough space to house illegals, well I can tell you, they probably could give space to 500 people there without doing much extra costs.

The three pictures below have been created using HDR. It’s not really realistic, but I like the result.