Life's about experiences. These are mine.
We’d decided to go back to Universal today rather than use the Fast passes we had for Disney. That means that it is Disney 2 – Universal 2 so far in the battle of the parks. We got there for park opening at 9am so that we could make our way straight to the new …
There was a time when Disney’s Hollywood Studios would have ranked as our favourite park but based on today’s visit it won’t be getting top spot in 2018. The park is currently undergoing a huge amount of building work creating the new Star Wars land and for this a number of rides have been levelled. …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 5 – A Pale Shadow of its Former Self”
After two full on days we decided that we would have a quieter day today by having a late start, breakfast out and a spot of shopping. Breakfast in the US to the Thompsons means Perkins and for me that can only mean the Tremendous Twelve! I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before …
Our drive along the 192 into the parks takes us past numerous eating establishments but at the very end there is a formal looking building with the words “Bob Evans” above the door. Initially I thought that it might be an estate agents or a realtor in the local parlance but a quick search identified …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 3 – Not so Fast not so Furious”
One of the things that irks me somewhat about coming to the parks in Florida is the price of the parking, in fact that they should charge for parking at all. That’s right parking isn’t included in the price! When we first came it was $5 a day and you got a really nice souvenir …
So, here we go again, for another spin around the Walt Disney World parks in Florida. Yes, yes, yes I know we said that last time was THE last time and that we said that the time before too but we just couldn’t resist. This really is the last time… The flight was at a …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 1 – Never Say Never Again”
It has been a while since the last time I saw Marillion live – 34 years to be precise. A lot has happened since then for both them and me. My last outing to see them was at the Apollo in Oxford when Fish was still the front man. He burst onto the stage through …
Continue reading “Marillion, Hexagon, 19th April 2018 – So Here I am Once More”
Today we finally collected our new car after several false starts during which Hyundai proved that they were incapable of mounting an efficient delivery operation. There was a tedious hand over process that had to be sat through before we could finally get the keys though. When we arrived we handed over the keys to …
Continue reading “Chris Difford & Boo Hewerdine, The Forge, 6th April 2018 – Cars and Girls”
This morning at 10am I was in front of my computer trying (in vain as it happened) to get tickets to see Snow Patrol in April. The tickets were going to be £70 and it was standing. Remember what I said about standing before? In the evening I was seated in the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall to …
Continue reading “Steven Wilson, Royal Albert Hall, 29th March 2018 – The Sound of Muzak”
Those of you that are reading this and know me will know that I like my cars fast and, like many others, like top end marques such as Jaguar, Aston Martin and Tesla. Helen and I have long talked about what our next car would be to replace the hated Vauxhall Insignia and had our …