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Entries Tagged as 'Travel'

Win A Transatlantic Cruise On The Queen Mary 2

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Enter this Cunard Sweepstake and if you are very lucky you can travel back in time and cross the Atlantic the way it was done in the days before jet aircraft. 
Cunard Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Sweepstake
Good Luck!

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Tags: Cruising · Travel

Joe & Megan’s Statue of Liberty Snowman

January 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Joe & Megan’s school has been closed for the past couple of days because of the snow enveloping the U.K. (see previous post)
So they decided to build a snowman for Nana Vicki  & Grandad Mick, its the only Statue of Liberty snowman in the UK!

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Tags: Family · Travel

U.K. Covered in Snow, Looks Awfully Cold ! Photo by NASA

January 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

This recent NASA photo shows England, Wales, and Scotland completely covered in snow.  It’s a really nice photo but can’t be very nice for people on the ground!
Reminds me of the winter of 1962-1963 which was the one of the worst in recorded history.

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Tags: Blast from the Past · Travel

What Is It Like To Fly In A U2 Spy Plane – James Mayes From BBC Top Gear Finds Out

August 7th, 2009 · No Comments

One of my favorite automotive programs on TV is Top Gear from the BBC. Apart from reviewing the latest and greatest cars the presenters get up to a bunch of unusual things.  This video of presenter James Mays flying in a U2  to the edge of space definitely takes the cake!  I love the bit [...]

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Tags: Inspirational · Travel

Amazing Wing Suit Flying

April 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Some of this video is absolutely amazing, now if I was 30 years younger………….

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

……… Nope, I still wouldn’t do it!!

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Tags: Inspirational · Sport · Travel

First Video OF Flight 1549 Landing In Hudson

January 17th, 2009 · No Comments

 
Here is the first video I have seen of the Flight 1549 crash landing in the Hudson River .
The video is fro a from a US Coast Guard camera.  After 2 minutes the plane suddenly enters from the left of the screen.  At 2 minutes 30 seconds (30 secs elapsed since crash), the camera [...]

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Tags: Inspirational · Travel

Vicki "Milestone Birthday"

November 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

On 26th October Vicki celebrated a "milestone birthday" , (for my own safety I will not mention which one).  We were on a Caribbean cruise on the MS Noordam, the picture above shows our dinner waiters singing happy birthday (in Indonesian!).  As you can see in the pictures below, when we got home from [...]

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Tags: Cruising · Family

South Seas Island Resort Captiva Island

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

We spent last weekend at South Seas Island Resort on a an incentive trip from Vicki’s employer Stewart Enterprises.  Leaving on Thursday at 11am we drove to Captiva,  normally a 3 1/2 hour journey…….we arrived  at 4:30pm!  The day before a fuel tanker had crashed and exploded damaging the south bound lanes of I-75, [...]

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Tags: Hotel · Travel