Author name: Satish

Photographer, blogger, traveller. Addicted to yoga. Alumnus of College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Born in /Kerala. Resident of Mumbai.

Maeslant Barrier – flood protector in Rotterdam Port

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Maeslant Barrier

Maeslant Barrier is an enormous storm surge protector on the waterway leading to Rotterdam port. It protects the region from disastrous floods. Bouwkombinatie Maeslantkering, a construction consortium, built the barrier between 1991 and 1997. The cost was €450 million.

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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum – Nazi concentration camp

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Entrance Gate to AusAuschwitz Camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp. Between 1940-45, they annihilated at least 1.1 mn people here. It was their largest death factory. Jews were a staggering majority of the victims, about 1 mn people. Auschwitz became synonymous with the Holocaust. …

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Escalles France on the Opal Coast

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Going Down to the Beach
Escalles France is a small village that snuggles in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, 17 km from  Calais. Cap Blanc-Nez, a stunning 134 m high white chalk cliff on Opal Coast, dominates the landscape. It is the French counterpart to the white cliffs of Dover. We were there on a sunny day and could see the Dover cliffs across the English Channel. …

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