. . . a volley of attempts and many failures to create a “bridge between England and Europe”. Some of them ended in some forms of disaster, but, happily, many ended by just giving up. But, there is a little-known path from one side to the other side known as Britain’s lost land bridge to Europe. And it’s exactly what you might expect, but it’s not something that you’ll ever see . . . this is how the land bridge connecting Britain to Europe may have looked like before the formation of the Dover Strait.
And, of course, if there are mysteries to be solved, there will be intrepid individuals and spelunkers will rise to the occasion. IKS Explorers are just such people, and they’ve made the rounds, as it were, several times to discover tunnels that were dug hundreds of years ago, trying to punch a hole in the wall that is Europe. Here, they revisit to the 1880 channel tunnel test bore dating 1880. “This time I go to the end of the bore. Very wet and cold around 200 feet underground.” Hats off to them. This is really interesting stuff. And, just for reference, The Channel Tunnel is 31.5 miles long or 50.45 km. That’s the equivalent of 169 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other.
It’s easy peasy nowadays to go underground. Watch another video about the Eurostar here.
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