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From: Donald <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:47:18 +0000
Piers Hemy wrote:
> What is there to tell, Wayne?  Doesn't everyone go once in a lifetime?
> 
> There is something of an industry arranging "study visits" to the place
> (which is actually the town of Pripyat, beside the power station, Chernobyl
> being about 20km away).  Given suitable advice, an informed guide and the
> right frame of mind, it is interesting and instructive to visit the area,
> and the town. The power station itself is out of bounds. I believe the visit
> was no more risky than an extended stay in Aberdeen, especially at the wrong
> end of the beach there.  NB, it's only my belief, I have no evidence -
> except for
> http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/rsh/Aberdeen_Beach_radioactive.html !
> 
> --
> Piers 
>              


Pity - 'Fitty' is a great wee place...

D.


-- 
Donald MacDonald BA DipLIS


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

                        Robert Frost.




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