On yet another day we were driving through pleasant countryside like that show below before we entered yet another drab town, this one mining coal.
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The place was Petrosani, home to a dying industry with many of the mines likely to close and create ghettos of poverty.
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We were met by the mine manager who went on to explain why the industry was quite unprofitable: thin seams, steep pitch, great depth and so on. In other words the site was difficult to work.
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Yet more examples of châteaux Stalin - drab homes to workers.
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Ugly industrial sites with derelict buildings.
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An interesting haulage system bringing loads of coal to the surface.
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Lots of coal dust lying around.
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Not somewhere I'd like to live and likely doomed to the scrap-heap as the economy modernises.
AS
The place was Petrosani, home to a dying industry with many of the mines likely to close and create ghettos of poverty.
We were met by the mine manager who went on to explain why the industry was quite unprofitable: thin seams, steep pitch, great depth and so on. In other words the site was difficult to work.
Yet more examples of châteaux Stalin - drab homes to workers.
Ugly industrial sites with derelict buildings.
An interesting haulage system bringing loads of coal to the surface.
Lots of coal dust lying around.
Not somewhere I'd like to live and likely doomed to the scrap-heap as the economy modernises.
AS
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