19/06/19 Canals and coal history
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:53:09+01:00I am leaving for Mons and want to see the famous Strepy-Thieu boat lift. I follow a road on Google Maps via my iphone and end up on a dirt road. Via a detour I still get to
wo 19 jun 2019
18/06/19 Bois du Luc, place of lack
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:50:11+01:00On the way to Mons, via Bois du Luc. First towards Chatelet, on the way I pick up the path along the Sambre, one more time through that decor of twisted steel and stagnated mastodons ... I pass
17/06/19 Going in the country…
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:48:11+01:00Again north, now I follow my nose and instinct, I go where it looks interesting. When I get around I see that I'm at Dampremy / Marcinelle, where I was last Friday and Saturday. It is warm, little
16/06/19 Charleroi has fallen into silence
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:45:04+01:00I cycle from my hotel in Sambre-Basse in a northerly direction. I try to stay in the direction of the airport, but as usual I get stuck in car routes, streets where I am not allowed to cycle
15/06/19 Town, village and wasteland
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:41:41+01:00When I come outside it drizzles, I cycle slightly downhill towards Chatelet. I find the station again, the infrastructure has been renovated, the houses are often just as rickety as they were then. It is quiet, a black
14/06/19 Warzone
lisamardi2019-09-03T12:37:21+01:00Arrival in Charleroi, the hotel is on the ring road, immediately the bustle of the city. After I have brought my things to the hotel I cycle around a little awkwardly. In the center it is busy, there
wo 1 mei 2019
01/05/19 Red flags on the site
lisamardi2019-06-06T10:07:18+01:00Via Zonhoven I take the 'bicycle-highway' to Genk Winterslag, where I visit C mine once more, accompagnied by Tom Arents. I worked with him on Hokkaido in 2014, it's nice meeting again! There's a festival going on, organised
di 30 apr 2019
30/04/19 Shopping and diving
lisamardi2019-06-06T10:03:23+01:00Beringen. I cycle to Beringen, B mine, where I will meet some journalists to talk about the project. The weather is grey and dull, but becomes better slowly. We talk about the site; the coal washery which is
29/04/19 On the slag heaps of Waterschei
lisamardi2019-06-06T10:00:07+01:00On the bicycle again to Genk Waterschei, where the coalmine buildings are partly renovated, partly still under construction. Here some new buildings form an so called energy campus 'Thor'. I walk on the slag heaps nearby and fall
28/04/19 A lazy Sunday afternoon
lisamardi2019-06-06T09:57:07+01:00The day starts with an excursion into the new built theatre called 'Muze', on the former coalminegrounds. We're passing through construction area's and see a ballroom, a nice stage and many interesting spaces, before a workshop concerning the