Cool Graffiti...

Kati, the Urbex Dog...

 No surprise that we took lots of photos. Here’s a bunch more of Kati.

Introducing Kati to Urbex...

We had no idea how Kati would react to exploring abandoned places, but she seemed to love it.

In fact, she had no fear whatsoever.

She also did a great job scaring away unfriendly spirits. Luckily the only spirit we came across was a young American guy from Chicago who was nervous walking around on his own. He actually wasn’t into urbexing, but loved exploring old forts and military sites. Stupidly, we forgot to have him take a family photo.

More Urbex Pics...

Very Cool Urbex...

Flipping back to late December:

On our way home from Germany, we took a detour to bring the girls to the cool abandoned buildings that we ran through on the last Zombie Hash near Liege, Belgium.

Built by the Dutch, Fort de la Charteuse was used as a fortification from 1823 to 1891.

The Belgians later used it as military barracks until 1988.

During both World Wars, Germany used it as a prison.

The Americans used it as a military hospital from 1944 to 1945.

It is now completely abandoned with easy access for willing photographers.

I didn’t have my camera along during the Zombie Hash, so was happy to go back to explore further and take lots of photos.

Perfect Setting for Zombies...

At the start of the hash, the pack was asked to remember that the zombies were really our friends because there some spots with risks of fatal falls. While there were a few hills to climb up and down, the places that were dangerous were inside...

 ...as there were banisters missing on some of the stairwells. Of course, that didn’t stop us from following trail through the old fortifications.

 There was lots of cool graffiti.

This was undoubtedly the best urbex we had ever encountered on a hash. We felt bad that the girls weren’t with us, but were happy that an opportunity to go back fell in our laps the next month.

2nd Zombie Hash...

On November 6, 2016, we took a train from Antwerp to Liege, where we were picked up by some Amsterdam hashers to head to BMPH3’s 2nd Zombie Hash. Opee instantly came to the attention of the zombies with some apparently liking him...

...more than others.

No surprise that the zombies enjoyed chasing Opee. Since the hares forgot to bring the strings and paper that designated our lives the previous year, rather than trying to escape from the zombies I usually ran up to them to give them a hug.

All was going great until we got to the beer break and learned that the hare had trusted an unreliable hasher with his key to the car storing the beer. After an unsuccessful extensive search for the key, the hare had to catch a ride over an hour away to get his spare key.