Sasha sez, "My good friend Susan and I were lucky enough to be able to visit the Maze Prison in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, last week (it's not open for the general public, you have to get special permission for it).
"If you know anything about the history of Northern Ireland, and particuarly the Troubles of the past 30 years, you'll have heard of the prison. It is notorious and infamous. It is the place where in 1981 10 prisoners died of a hunger strike, and where in 1983 38 prisoners managed to escape. It is the prison where all the men suspected of terrorism (IRA, UVF, UFF, etc) were put, and it has been empty and abandoned since 2000. It will be torn down soon, a stadium will be built in its place, but right now, it is the most magnificent place.
"It is falling apart around us. Even in 5 short years, everything is rusting and rotting away. Walking around there, knowing everything that happened there and all the people that died there – it was creepy but so interesting at the same time."
(Thanks, Sasha!)
