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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The "real" No-Go Zones of France

Contaminated by massive amounts of arsenic, lead, zinc, and un-exploded munitions,  huge tracts of lands and villages have been off limits for years.

Read the entire story here.


Big hat tip to Bob in KY!

5 comments:

  1. Thanks and I had never heard about this.

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  2. Who would have thought----the war has been over for 70 years!

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  3. Thanks, I've heard of it, and got to 'see' a bit of it back in the 80s... NOT pretty...

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  4. hey Irish,
    Thanks for the link....I figured it was the muslim enclaves in the major cities...

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  5. Thanks to all for stopping by. I too had heard of this, but didn't know it was this extensive. I've got a friend that from the mid-west that has relative in Alsace-Loraine. He is a big WWI buff/re-enactor and he told me after visiting several WWI battlefields in the mid-nineties that it was amazing what was still visible. He told me of seeing huge "mountains" of barbed wire throughout the countryside. Jeffery in Alabama

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