Took a quick trip down to Severn Beach tonight to scope out some potential locations for some shots I wanted to take. Wasn’t really expecting to take anything decent as the weather wasn’t looking too good, but I’m really glad we went now as it turned out to be well worth the drive…
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I love roller coasters, and so I was well chuffed that the weather held out yesterday and we managed to get in all of the big rides at Alton Towers, some twice, before lunch.
Pleasantly surprised that having got there early they let us in 30 mins early and we managed to get straight on some of the rides an hour before they were meant to be even running. This meant we also got a couple of rides on Oblivion with no queuing and could save our fast track tickets for later for ride #3.
RITA and Air were the two ‘biggies’ that we were looking forward to and they didn’t disappoint. Managed to blag a couple of goes on Rita, sat right at the front each time too 
Air was awesome, you’re effectively lying face down and so from your POV it’s like your flying, except of course, having actually done a lot of that for real, it’s not 
Ooh – unexpected surprise of the day, ‘Hex’. It’s not a big ride as such, and it’s easy to see how they’ve done it, but man does it fuck with the senses. Well worth queuing up for that one
Gnnf need to come back with the 40d.
Turn your coins into cash?
Had a vague plan this afternoon to go check out Clifton in the evening for some more bridge shots.
As the evening drew in it was looking less and less likely as the weather was shite, dark clouds overhead and raining intermittently all afternoon. It would have been easy to just bail and not go but I’d arranged to meet Stu and something was niggling away to make me want to go anyway.
I’m really glad I did now as the weather held out just long enough for us to both scout some great locations and also to grab a handful of surprisingly passable shots too. It was far from ideal conditions but I was very pleasantly surprised by what turned up when I got home.
Definitely looking forward to a few more trips out like that.
.. so, down in Bristol today with my friend Stu & our respective familes, we had a couple of hours in the Museum, which was cool. I was particular taken by their small but excellent Egyptian collection, and some of the oriental stuff including 700-year old ming vases.
After the Museum the girls headed back home and myselt, Stu and Callum decided to take a trip up to Clifton to scout some potential vantage points to get some shots of the bridge. We weren’t really intending to take any shots at the time as the weather was a bit dodgy and the plan was to get some night shots but we took the cameras anyway and I’m really glad we did as I got a few reasonable shots. Definitely looking forward to going back when the weathers better.
Yay! A dry day at last.
This was about an hour and a half after she decided to take up residence.
She does this a lot.
Bless her.
Still there!
