Caernarfon and Portmeirion

{mosimage}Caernarfon is one of my favourite places to fly to.

Admittedly the first time I flew there I was on probation for flying into the London Control Zone, but from that little incident, I have steadily improved my navigation. If you fly into Carnarfon from the North you get the beautiful views along Colwyn Bay (keep [...]

Warhammer World

{mosimage}Warhammer World: to some it may be familiar as the Nottingham headquarters of Games Workshop, creators of the popular tabletop war games Warhammer (a fantasy based game), Warhammer 40k (a variant set in the FAR future), and Lord of The Rings (a game that allows players to reenact battles from Tolkein’s famous [...]

Adventures on Dinosaur Island

{mosimage}To show how the views of the passenger and pilot are vastly different we present here a journey to Bembridge from the point of view of both.
The Pilot
I don’t like last minute changes! I like to plan things ahead of time. That way there are fewer surpises. But guess what! Even carefully developed plans have [...]

Dinosaur Island II

{mosimage}Last Sunday I went on another plane trip with my Dad, this time to the Isle of Wight. I had not been there before, but we have been taught about it at school. Lots of fossils and dinosaurs were discovered on the Isle of Wight, and so I was looking forward to seeing the dinosaur [...]

The Grand Canyon

{mosimage}On my recent trip to the USA, it occured to me that it would be nice to do an aerial tour of such places as the San Francisco bridge and the Grand Canyon. In the last news letter I mentioned how spectacular the Golden Gate bridge was from the air, and certainly it was a [...]