Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I’ve said this before but Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a beautiful place to be as it is by far the lushest and greenest of any of the parks, Disney or otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to be there and to just wander around. Of course there was some serious rides and entertainment to be had …
After much debate yesterday it was agreed that we would make Disney Hollywood Studios the first park that we visited and so we set off at 08:15 this morning to get to the park before the crowds and the heat arrived. In previous years we have learnt to use the Fastpass system to our advantage. …
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I always struggle with jet-lag when travelling west and this time was no different. While I seemed to have slept ok I still woke up feeling groggy. To allow everyone time to get over the lag we had decided to have a lazy(ish) day today. We started by going out for a late breakfast at …
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The first day is always an interesting one as it goes on forever and you end the day feeling knackered having done exactly nothing other than been sat on a plane for nine hours. Of course the last thing you want, having just stepped irritably off a plane, is to have to stand in line …
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Bletchley Park is somewhere that I have wanted to visit for quite a while given it’s historical significance to both the country and myself. To the country for the work on cracking Enigma and to me as so many of the iconic computers I have worked on are housed in the separate National Museum of …
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I’d never been to Canterbury before last week and that’s a shame as it is a lovely place. Even better was that the sun came out after nearly three months with enough rain to make Russell Crowe consider building a boat. The heart of Canterbury is the cathedral. I made the mistake of assuming that …
So with less than a month to go there is a real sense of excitement in the Thompson household as we prepare to go back to Orlando. Notwithstanding that this is the sixth time that we will have been to Florida as a family we still all really enjoy it and it is a true …
I’ve decided that Birmingham gets a bad rap. This last weekend Helen and I spent the weekend there, ostensibly to visit our younger son who is studying at university there but also as a chance to spend a weekend away. And Birmingham is really not as bad as people make out. In fact it is …
I’ve been to the Dr Who Experience once before but since then it has moved to a bigger space and the show has got even bigger. Also I was visiting on 23rd November, the day of the 50th anniversary so I had assumed that it would put on a bit of a show. It was …
Having lived and studied in Portsmouth for four years I have been down to the historic dockyard a number of times and seen the Mary Rose. While it has been undergoing its restoration over the last 30 years it has been housed in what was little more than a plastic hanger. That has now changed …