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#1 curlylegend

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Posted 03 February 2024 - 10:52 pm

I was made aware of a peculiar building less that 14km from where I live, so it being a decent day decided to go out and track it down. This meant going along a narrow road which soon deteriorated into a muddy track.

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This was near enough to get a good view of the local power station on the north side of the Loire and 50m or so of walking got me to the river bank.

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There on the left is an odd looking sort of structure, here's a better view...

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This definitely called for further investigation so it was a jaunt over the Pont St Nazaire and a ride along some pretty wee roads through the water meadows on the north bank. And there tucked away along a lane beside the power station was this...

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This is The Villa Cheminee. It was conceived by a Japanese artist ( why I don't know !) and is now open to the public to use as a super viewpoint where you can look right out to the see and even get a glimpse of the higher buildings in Nantes itself.

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The house itself is closed but you apparently can rent it out. There really is some odd things along this river,

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Posted 04 February 2024 - 07:58 am

cool, cheminee means chimney?


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Posted 04 February 2024 - 10:18 am

It does.
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Posted 04 February 2024 - 11:20 am

Trays beans.

Treadered reasonably close to that in 2012. Crossed Loire by little ferret a bit further inland so missed that spectacle.
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Posted 04 February 2024 - 07:26 pm

Retired Cordemais powerstation.- good pics BTW

 

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Edited by LAURENCEAUX, 04 February 2024 - 07:27 pm.


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Posted 04 March 2024 - 10:54 am

Awesome 😎 thanks for sharing.

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