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Leaving the Mons station
11:48
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Recordist's notes
After an exhausting race, our scouts are leaving us and going back home, sometimes very far (the most is 3 hours by train, the normal path is 1h30). Here, the 1250 scouts from Ottignies and near, are leaving using the train we ordered for us. Everybody is joking, playing with water in the wc, and activating the alarm system. Hüüh ! Stop boys ! At the end, train is leaving. At 10:47 mn, we can here the desperate station master saying : They are gone !!!
About the place
Mons is a town of about 95,299 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 12 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “7000 Mons, Belgium - K8strax race - Leaving the Mons station” by Vincent Duseigne – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0