Activities, England, Fun

Our £20 six-mile helicopter flight with Adventure001 in Hampshire – We’d do this again.

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In mid-May I stumbled across an offer by gift experience booking platform IntoTheBlue. The offer seemed almost too good to be true: £59 for a 6-mile helicopter flight with bubbly for two. If you subtract £10 per glass of bubbly, then that’s under £20 per person. Not for an off-peak train ride to Guildford. For a flight in an actual helicopter. INTO THE BLUE My experience with IntoTheBlue in the past had neither been brilliant nor particularly bad. Like with all gift experience booking platforms I’ve dealt with (VirginExperienceDays, BuyAGift, LastMinute), the company doesn’t go to extreme lengths to monitor and quality-check the experiences.   VALUE ADDED It’s what I expect. Where those platforms provide value sometimes (not always), is, by screening and pre-selecting activity providers, by performing basic quality checks, and most importantly: by offering very competitive prices.   A TRADE-OFF At a ridiculously low price like this, I […]

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Hop A Tour ‘Australian Wilderness Experience’ with Matthew Urmenyhazi – An immersive live on-site event

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I’ve just done the one-hour Hop A Tour Australian Wilderness Experience virtual live event with Matthew Urmenyhazi and thoroughly enjoyed it. While most of Matt’s tours are booked out well in advance, I happened to be the only guest on tonight’s tour. Crocodile Dundee, seafood barbies, and the Opera House Matt is about as Australian as Crocodile Dundee, seafood barbies, or the Sydney Opera House. He’s dedicated his whole life so far to exploring the Australian wilderness and to sharing his deep insights gained as tour guide and in many other ways. From the first moment there is no doubt that this dude knows his stuff inside out and could do the tour with his eyes closed. It also takes only a few seconds for his quirky, hilarious, and pleasantly rough sense of humour to shine through.   All pics incl. feature pic and the video (c) Hop A Tour, […]

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CityBoxer Boxing Training at The Ring in London

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Earlier tonight I revisited The Ring in Southwark, South London, for a CityBoxer one-on-one taster session (£40). In a way I guess you could say that I was cheating, booking a taster session. I had booked another taster session with them eight years ago and followed up by booking a whole ten-week boxing course. I had done some boxing at different gyms since. However, in terms of my skills I was not cheating at all. I was very much an absolute beginner without any talent or ability. The best way to get rid of frustration I love boxing. It’s the perfect way to get rid of aggression and frustration that inevitably builds up in most of us over time. I’m not more aggressive or more frustrated than the next guy, don’t get me wrong. I’m probably below average in terms of aggression and frustration. But boy does it feel good […]

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Axe-throwing with Whistle Punks in South London

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I recently had some spare time at my hands and googled quirky fun things to do in London. When Whistle Punks’ axe-throwing (or “urban axe-throwing” as they call it) popped up, I knew I had to book myself in. Not sure if that is normal, but I always wanted to do some axe-throwing. I am a very peaceful, cautious, rational person, but it just sounds and looks like so much fun. Also, hard to imagine better ways of getting rid of a bit of frustration which in these testing times inevitably accumulate. For £22 off-peak (£29 full price) it seemed reasonably priced. I booked a one-hour single ticket for the following day’s evening.   To find the venue is not easy. Most people will arrive by train, bus, or tube at Vauxhall station. At time of writing, the direct path to the venue is blocked by construction sites.   Please […]

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Fun, Portugal, Travel, Water sports

Lisbon Sailing Tour

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While in Lisbon for a day last week, Pedro from Pypas Cruises invited BSqB on a 1.5h sailing boat trip. My wife only joined me in Porto a few days later, so I went on the trip on my own together with a young Portuguese couple. Pedro was joined by one of his experienced skippers, Antonio, so it was five of us overall (the maximum is 12 persons/10 guests). If you should do the tour in the morning, too, like I did, then I would highly recommend having breakfast at the world-famous Pastéis de Belém. From there you can cross the Jardim de Belém to the starting point just 15 minutes’ walk away. The UNESCO World Heritage listed, gothic Jerónimos Monastery and the (equally listed) Torre de Belém (Belem Tower) are also next-door. When it was built in the early-16th Century, the tower was towards the middle of the Tagus […]

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