We'd already booked our tickets and were ready for our day out - or at least my nephew, Jake was!
If I'm honest I was dreading Legoland, Windsor on a sunny Sunday in June thinking we would have to queue to get off the M4, then have to queue to get into the park itself and then for all the rides but actually it was a breeze. Armed with a picnic and a few toys for the car, we left London for our 40 minute journey at about 9:15am to make sure we got there for the 10am opening.
Let's be fair, I don't look much like an athelete, certainly not a Gladiator. In fact on my last visit to Thorpe Park the staff had to double check that I could fit in the rollercoaster restraints (not one of my finest moments). I thought that my sporting days were long gone, until someone mentioned Zorbing. Surely even I could do that!
It was strange walking back into Chessington world of adventures after a gap between visits of nearly 15 years. Part of me wanted all the rides that I used to love to still be there, while the other half didn’t want to ruin the great memories that I had of the place. I wasn’t disappointed.
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We’ve all seen the adverts featuring a group of guys doing karaoke on the main stage at an unnamed festival. Genius, pure genius; but how could you host your own festival? And even if it is just you and your mates, surely you would need to be top of the bill!
We set our crack team of festival specialists the mission of helping you with some ideas of how to do it.
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With I’d do anything crowning its winner, and big brother unveiling its new selection of overly desperate wannabes, we wondered how and where we can see our previous favourites
after their 5 minutes of fame finish. Many of them have begun to appear in some of our most famous musical productions. The summer months can be the best time of year to get tickets for the top west end musicals so over the next few months we’ll be updating you on their performances in some of the new releases (and long running classics).
We keep hearing about the credit crunch and how no one has any money any more. It seems to be in every paper and on every news show. Enough already, we set out to track down some gold and jewels.
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We all have memories of childhood. Some are good, some are bad; but we definitely all have them. I’m sure that for most of us, many memories feature the school summer holidays. In my memories the colours of green and blue seem strangely vivid and bright and they all seem to feature being outside. It got us all thinking what Queen Liz’s childhood was like. Where did William and Harry play? What did the royals, the rich and famous play with? Did they all have designer toddler specific hummers like Brooklyn Beckham? Or were they (hopefully) a bit more like us?
There is some great free stuff happening all over the country this summer and we thought we would give you some pointers on where to look and what could be on offer where you live:
The James Bond exhibition at the Fleming gallery was surprisingly good. It’s only small but it really gives you an idea of the global reach that the James Bond films have. When we came out of the gallery we came across a newspaper advertising the new James Bond novel “Devil may care”. It featured the new book, in a glass suitcase, being held by a leather clad model, in a speedboat on the Thames. Now any one of these things would peak our interest but together they seemed like a blockbuster idea.
The idea then began to form in our minds, where could you play at being Bond (without getting arrested for stalking). We dragged the dinner jacket out of the wardrobe, gave the cocktail shaker a quick wash and then off went off to play super spy!
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Every year we seem to be greeted by more and more consumer polls each time we open a newspaper. There seem to be endless lists of which is the most famous, most visited, most iconic or tallest building in the UK? Most of the ones that make these lists tend to be ones that you visited with your primary school in the eighties or that you always meant to go and see but never got round to. That got us thinking, which buildings are the most mysterious or least visited? Which ones do you never visit because quite simply you can’t?
A few beers later, and as normal, this discussion was still raging and we boiled it down to two main groups: Those buildings belonging to the Armed Forces and those belonging to Government.
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