Pharmaceutical Company B. [Revisit]

Almost two and a half years after our first visit to this really cool location, my wife and I got the chance for a revisit at the end of February of this year.
My brother had gotten married and the celebration was scheduled for the afternoon of a cold but sunny day about a week after our last tour. I had arrived the night before by train, coming straight from a three-day business trip, and my wife had hitched a ride in the car with my parents, so I had asked her to bring all my tour equipment with her so we'd have at least the chance to go for a tour.
On Friday evening, we sat together with my parents and we decided to get up early and try for a revisit of the pharmaceutical factory.
The location wasn't too far, so we were able to squeeze the visit in our time table.
We got up really early, took the subway and walked the rest of the way. The access we had taken two years before wasn't there anymore, so we had to look for another way in. I always prefer the direct route, so we just walked along the fence until we got to a pile of stuff that gave us the opportunity to just climb over the gate. Easy. Or so we thought.
We tried to find the buildings that we hadn't checked out the last time we were there, but since a lot of the older buildings have been demolished since, we were having trouble to find our way. The first building we found was new to us, so we took our time there. The secon building we already knew, but it was nice noetheless, because the first time, it had been raining, and this time, it was a nice sunny morning, and it was interesting to see what how different - or not - everything looked.

As we entered the third building, we saw a white car pulling up.
Someone got out, but we couldn't see were he was going. We kept really still and waitet for him to leave, but he wouldn't. And we didn't see or hear him either.
After about thirty minutes, we decided to just keep going. We finished up the third building and went out to see where to go next.
As we looked out of the door, we saw workers on the premises. They were standing by the huilding right next to the one we just left.
We waited for them to look the other way and then ran around the corner to safety. As we caught our breath, a car came along the road past us, so we jumped right into a small transformer house to hide. It worked, we got out again and quietly went back the way we came. When my wife noticed more workers that possibly saw us, I just said, I don't care, and we more or less openly ran towards the fence and climbed out the way we came.
Except for the unexpected exercise, this tour was everything we had hoped for. I'm glad that we had the chance to see this place once again before it is completely gone.


To find out more about the history of this chemical ruin and to check out all the photos from this amazing spot, click the button below.

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited (Part 3)

Well, there is nothing left to report about the history or the chocolate factory itself, so I'll just leave you to the remaining photos. I have enough photos left for one more post about the chocolate factory, so stay tuned, folks!
Enjoy!

First Visit | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited (Part 2)

Folks, I am truly sorry for interrupting my series about the abandoned chocolate factory with something completely different, but I really do like hospitals and when I had the opportunity for a visit in the abandoned children's hospital, I had to take it and process the photos right away.
I think they were worth it :)
Anyway, here is the second part of my revisit of the chocolate factory.

First Visit | Part 1 | Part 2

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory Revisited

Since we didn't have enough time to thoroughly explore all the buildings in the chocolate factory during our first visit, I took advantage of the good weather two weeks later and went on another trip.

The location is not as secret as I had thought; I met three other people there, two guys and a girl walking through the dark basements and taking pictures. The girl was pretty mad at herself for not bringing a tripod...
Anyway, I could see that the two weeks that had passed since my last visit hadn't been kind to the old factory. A bunch of stuff was missing from the lab and a lot of the piping has been torn out. During my research on the internet I found newspaper articles about the factory. Apparently, three Romanian metal thieves that were raiding the factory have been apprehended by the police after neighbors called the authorities when they saw people walking around on the property.

Here are the first photos from my second visit.

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory (Part 4)

These are the last pictures from my first visit in the abandoned chocolate factory.
I was there again yesterday to check out the areas we hadn't explored the last time and I found a lot of stuff is missing from the lab. The centrifuge is gone as well as the big round-bottom flasks.

But you'll see that in the following posts, here is the next bunch of photos from the first tour.
The sun was beginning to set, so the light became warmer and made for a nice mood. Before we left, we went into the basement workshops to take a couple of pictures there.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Revisit