Canvassing industrial pilgrims

[fivemack]

Would any of my readers be interested in a tour of Drax, the four-gigawatt coal-fired power station located mid-way between Leeds and Hull? Tours have to be arranged specially, but the logistics are not substantially worse for a small group than for an individual. I am a shareholder, but I don't think that owning eleven hundred nanodraxes will get me any usefully special treatment.

I'll need to ring and get absolutely basic information like whether it's possible to go at a weekend, but I'd quite like to know before then whether I'd be going alone or contemplating booking a minibus. Would be planning to go sometime-in-October, assuming that plans don't have to be made months in advance.

[Poll #1779585]

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[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Any further thoughts on this, now we're in October?

Unrelatedly, another friend of mine (Chris Venus, Keble '96-'99, if the name rings any bells) wrote in a public place: "I've decided that I might finally get around to my plan of visiting the Ukraine and going to see Prypiat which is the abandoned and irradiated city near the Chernobyl nuclear plant."

Can't remember whether you've done this yourself or not already, but if you haven't, it does sound like the sort of thing you might like. I'm happy to vouch for him as being a sound fellow.