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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Darth Loo-knee on 06 August 2007, 23:37:25
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Did you have a good time?
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Cheers Daz, had a great time, thanks. Managed 4 weeks without my OOF fix so was somewhat of an achievement in itself!
Heres a couple of pics to get a flavour of the break.
My son about to be launched into a 'parapunt' on the top of the Puy du Dome.....
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/hotel21/OOF%20France%202007/OOFfrance2007001.jpg)
One and a half heart beats later......
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/hotel21/OOF%20France%202007/OOFfrance2007005.jpg)
One of the D-day beaches (Omaha, I think....)
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/hotel21/OOF%20France%202007/OOFfrance2007002.jpg)
The church at St Maire Eglise, 10 km from the American landing beach and the one that one of the 101st Airborne landed on and played dead for a few hours before getting down.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/hotel21/OOF%20France%202007/OOFfrance2007003.jpg)
A good trip, all in all. :y
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Good pics.. :y
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I get shivers up my spine seeing the pictures and imagining what went on... Brave people that shouldn't be forgotten.
What did your Son think of doing that then? what a view from up there..
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Great pics... & welcome back
Ian
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I get shivers up my spine seeing the pictures and imagining what went on... Brave people that shouldn't be forgotten.
What did your Son think of doing that then? what a view from up there..
Really quite spooky visiting the D-day beaches and the assorted museums/cemetaries in the area. Makes you feel really minimal in the greater scheme of things..... :'(
As for Junior and what he thought of his flight, better let the cheeser grin explain.....
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j298/hotel21/OOF%20France%202007/OOFfrance2007.jpg)
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fantastic piccies Bruce, my heart nearly stopped looking at the "air bound daredevil" goodness knows how he felt :o
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Has he lost the will to live :o
Seriously, looks like a blast, glad you enjoyed it, looks like decent weather, and welcome back :D
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Thanks peeps. Yeah, weather was a blast but also had some spectacular rain and a cracking electrical storm that lit the sky for almost an hour one night but without a simgle clap of thunder or raindrop!!
Junior graduated from Uni at the summer and this was part of a graduation pressie. He already flies a 13 metre kite with a beach board and a buggy and wanted to basically do the same thing but actually hang from it. He got his wish....... :D
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Thanks peeps. Yeah, weather was a blast but also had some spectacular rain and a cracking electrical storm that lit the sky for almost an hour one night but without a simgle clap of thunder or raindrop!!
Junior graduated from Uni at the summer and this was part of a graduation pressie. He already flies a 13 metre kite with a beach board and a buggy and wanted to basically do the same thing but actually hang from it. He got his wish....... :D
Hope he took plenty of spare undies.....
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Thanks peeps. Yeah, weather was a blast but also had some spectacular rain and a cracking electrical storm that lit the sky for almost an hour one night but without a simgle clap of thunder or raindrop!!
Junior graduated from Uni at the summer and this was part of a graduation pressie. He already flies a 13 metre kite with a beach board and a buggy and wanted to basically do the same thing but actually hang from it. He got his wish....... :D
Has he done that surfing with a kite? saw that being done in Cornwall looked brilliant, they take off from the waves :y
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Thanks peeps. Yeah, weather was a blast but also had some spectacular rain and a cracking electrical storm that lit the sky for almost an hour one night but without a simgle clap of thunder or raindrop!!
Junior graduated from Uni at the summer and this was part of a graduation pressie. He already flies a 13 metre kite with a beach board and a buggy and wanted to basically do the same thing but actually hang from it. He got his wish....... :D
Has he done that surfing with a kite? saw that being done in Cornwall looked brilliant, they take off from the waves :y
No, not surfed with it as it needs to be a different type of kite. This needs one with a rigid or inflatable leading edge so that when it lands in the water, it keeps its shape and can be re-inflated by the wind and get you going again. The standard 'land' kites are like a parachute that need inflated by the wind passing through it. Not easily done if its sodden wet on top of a wave in the oggin....
apparently...... ;D
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It would be just my luck to have the Coast Guard fetchin me in ;D
Whats it like Bruce to have people miss you when you've been away?? :'(
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It would be just my luck to have the Coast Guard fetchin me in ;D
Whats it like Bruce to have people miss you when you've been away?? :'(
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:)Good to have you back Bruce & glad you all had happy hols. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]