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| Near the cafe at the coking plant - awesome! |
This day we visited Zeche Zollverein, an old coal mine + wash plant + coking plant. It's been painted, stabilised and cleaned up. Trees, bike paths, old train lines, huge machines and odd parks dot the 100Ha site. It's a UNESCO world heritage site, chosen as an excellently preserved example of an industrial site. The coke plant is enormous. Lunch is excellent, and the view along the coking plant is oddly magnificent. We got lost and walked right around the site.
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| How's it hanging on the spinning wheel. |
Next day we went to Dortmund. The industrial museum is closed. Now we know all museums are closed on Mondays in Germany. The city is modern, no historical centre. It's rainy today, and we're not hanging around. So we go back to Zech Zolverein and the Ruhr Museum there, which is open and interesting. A history of industry, the area and the people. The view from the top deck is awesome. You can see smoke in the 3 stacks of a coking lant nearby. The valley is still pretty brown in the air. Still raining. Shame we couldn't time it for the tour in English.
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| One cool coal mine. |
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| The other end of the coking plant |
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| About 2 hours walk later... |
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| The boys and Marie at the left |
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| Where's Willy Wonker? At the top of the wash plant |
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| Some of the amazing old machines in the wash plant |
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