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Lazy Days in the Lake District

Meeting Astronaut Rick Mastracchio

Our Top Picks of Prague

The Creative Contraptions at the Prague Sex Machines Museum

Splat! Throwdown on the Potter’s Wheel

Something Else

Segway Speed Demons in the Snow at Sherwood Forest

A Tale of Two Cities – Budapest City Break

Floating in the Freezing Cold of Space – Meeting Astronaut Bruce McCandless

Losing Elvis

Extreme Dog Walking at Malham in the Yorkshire Dales

The Culture Vulture

Set Phasers to Fun, Beam Me Up Blackpool! Star Trek Exhibition

Blackpool ….. The Last Resort?

Meeting Apollo 16 Moonwalker Charlie Duke

Go for Launch! Meeting Jerry Bostick of NASA Mission Control

Zorbing – It’s How We Roll….

The Culture Vulture

Feathered Dinosaurs of China Exhibition – Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers

In the Public Eye to the London Eye – Our Top Views...

Weird Things in Jars – The Grant Museum of Zoology

Feeling a Dummy at Madame Tussauds

Feeling the Force at the Star Wars Identities Exhibition

  • UK Tour

    Lazy Days in the Lake District

    OK, let’s get this out of the way. This holiday is not what it was supposed to be. We had hired a cameprvan, a classic VW to nomadically wander the Scottish highlands,…

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    Meeting Astronaut Rick Mastracchio

    What do you do if you fail the eyesight test for the US Air Force, then fail the eyesight test for the US Navy? You go straight over their heads and join…

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    Our Top Picks of Prague

    Under siege. That’s how I would class any visit to Prague. A city of a hundred spires and home to amazing Gothic architecture untouched by the grubby hands of Communist block buildings…

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    The Creative Contraptions at the Prague Sex Machines Museum

    You read that right, Prague has a sex machines museum. How nice of Prague to name a museum after me, sex machine is my middle name. The saucy shenanigans and coitus contraptions…

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    Splat! Throwdown on the Potter’s Wheel

    Much to Mrs Cook’s disappointment, I’m not very good with my hands, so we’ve come to get some instruction. Except this time I’ll also be getting them wet and dirty at a…

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    Segway Speed Demons in the Snow at Sherwood Forest

    They say that electric vehicles are the future so we’ve come to find out with a sedate Segway adventure. To call it a Segway safari would be a bit of a stretch, for…

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    A Tale of Two Cities – Budapest City Break

    Just back from a 3 day trip to the ridiculously under-priced eastern Europe, this time in Hungary for a Budapest city break. Savvy people that you are, or for those that have picked…

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    Floating in the Freezing Cold of Space – Meeting Astronaut Bruce McCandless

    I was 13 years old in 1984, the Cold War was still years away from thawing, Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative had been announced the year before, and Space Shuttle Challenger is launched…

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    Losing Elvis

    On the 1st of November, we had to let go of Elvis, our handsome 21 year old cat. He’s a big loss, an absolute character. Its going to be strange not to…

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    Extreme Dog Walking at Malham in the Yorkshire Dales

    Eeee by eck. We’ve a couple of days off from that nasty four letter word so we’ve come up to the North Yorkshire Dales (t’yorkshire) for some extreme dog walking. Land of flat…

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    Set Phasers to Fun, Beam Me Up Blackpool! Star Trek Exhibition

    It’s fair to say that if you don’t know your Klingons from your Quarks then the Star Trek Exhibition in Blackpool is not for you. If however you like star trekking across…

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    Blackpool ….. The Last Resort?

    I can count on two fingers the amount of times I’ve been to Blackpool, both ended in tears. Once in 1977 at a Dr Who exhibition, I ran out screaming in sheer terror…

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    Meeting Apollo 16 Moonwalker Charlie Duke

    In April 1972, Apollo 16 was the tenth manned flight in the Apollo program, leaving the cradle of Planet Earth for another world. Onboard that spacecraft, the Lunar Module Orion undocked from the Command…

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    Go for Launch! Meeting Jerry Bostick of NASA Mission Control

    Jerry Bostick is a former NASA flight controller who worked in Mission Control during the golden age of spaceflight on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programmes, I’m meeting Jerry Bostick at the National…

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    Zorbing – It’s How We Roll….

    It is described as “60 seconds of fun” which would seem quite appropriate as this experience is to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Mrs Cook states that most experiences with me only last…

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    Feathered Dinosaurs of China Exhibition – Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers

    Being a bit of an old fossil myself, I find nothing more interesting than looking at other old fossils so I’m at Wollaton Hall (yes, Bruce Wayne’s house in Batman) to see some…

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    In the Public Eye to the London Eye – Our Top Views in London You Must See

    Eye spy with the London Eye, something beginning with C. Wrong. It’s the Capital and we are in it, jolly old London town. When a man  is tired of London, he is tired…

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    Weird Things in Jars – The Grant Museum of Zoology

    Weird things in jars. That’s how best to describe the Grant Museum of Zoology. Not for the squeamish, this offbeat museum in London is one of the oldest natural history museums in…

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    Feeling a Dummy at Madame Tussauds

    Madame Tussauds is an utter freak show. I’m not talking about the waxworks inside, or the queue outside of thousand of thronging visitors lined up like dummies who haven’t booked online to…

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    Feeling the Force at the Star Wars Identities Exhibition

    Han Solo can apparently fly successfully through an asteroid field at odds of 3,720 to 1. Coincidentally, that is also the same number of Stormtrooper children orphaned by a bunch religious insurgents who…

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Amateur astronomer, space, history, nerd, extreme dog walker, cat slave, doorstep daytripper, severe tinnitus sufferer. 13.7 billion years in the making - not that much better for it

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