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live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:27 am Post subject: UK Photo TR: live2tell75 (the other Eric Johnson) |
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What an amazing trip! Thanks to Robb and Elissa for organizing a coaster/theme park dream vacation! Everything from the ERT, extra perks, surprises, and parks were fantastic! You two out did yourselves, thank you so much! I am so glad I was able to meet so many new awesome people. I love my back of the bus peeps - holla! You guys all rock! Here are my trip pics: London, at Chessington, Coney Beach, Oakwood, Alton Towers, Drayton Manor, Pleasureland Southport, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lightwater Valley, Flamingo Land, Pleasurewood Hills, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Joyland and Thorpe Park. There all here! Hope you enjoy.
--Eric J
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| Belgrave Road, near Victoria Station, where my hotel was. |
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| Here's my crib for 2 nights: The Carlton Hotel. |
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| What I expected, a pretty small room. |
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| The bathroom was super small! The shower blended into the rest of the bathroom which was the size of a closet! |
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| The House of Parliment and Big Ben. |
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| The London Eye on the Thames River. |
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| Being a theme park freak, I couldn't resist riding the big wheel! |
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| The London Eye did give spectacular view of The City Of London and Westminster. |
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| The National Gallery in Trafalgar Sqare was amazing and imense! |
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| Couldn't come to London and not ride and take a picture of a double decker bus! |
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| My first English breakfast. |
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| My favorite part of London was the Tower Of London. I could of spent many hours there. |
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| So much history took place here. |
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| The Beefeater or guide told of the many famous executions that took place here. |
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| live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| A Royal guard at the Tower. |
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| Climbed many winding stairs to the different towers. |
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| One of the Kinghts in Armor, was very cool, as was the weapons room. |
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| The Tower Cathedrial was gorgeous. |
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| The Tower Bridge was huge! |
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| Tower Bridge had amazing views of the Thames River. |
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| live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Took in a play, The Mousetrap at St. Martin's Theather on my 2nd night. Fun Agatha Cristie Murder Mystery, the longest running play in London. |
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| After the play, I strolled around Piccadilly Circus at night. Kind of like London's version of Time's Square. Lots of lights and excitement. |
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| One the 3rd day I hit the British Museum. What an amazing place! |
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| The main central area is the Great Court and it is big! |
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| The galleries housed many interesting objects and artifacts. |
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| The Egyptian galleries were awesome. |
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| The mummies were very cool. |
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| The Greek exhibits also rocked! |
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| The weather was gorgeous and hot, but after the museum there was a breeze so I joined the locals and stretched out at one of the local squares/parks and relaxed and took in my beautiful suroundings. |
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| live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Next up: Day one of the Theme Park Review UK Trip at Chessington World Of Adventures. Stay tuned!
--Eric J.
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| BiCoastal Kid Teh Rockness Monster
Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Total posts: 2365 Location: Jeowja Age: 21 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Who designed the Great Court? Oh yeah, Norman Foster did! Like yeses.
Great TR so far! Keep it up if there's more. 
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| blackcurrent To all who come to this happy place; Welcome
Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Total posts: 166 Location: UK Age: 32 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| great report.... glad you took the time to take in and enjoy some of the finer things London has to offer..... It's a great city especially when the sun is shining
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| ImAPrincess I married that stupid CoasterFanatic guy
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 267 Location: Weirton, WV Age: 31 Gender: Female |
| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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I wish Ted & I would've known you before the trip. We could've had a blast hanging out in London!
Hopefully, see you in a couple of weeks!
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Catrina
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| live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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After my 3 days in London, it was time to meet up with the crazy TPRer's for day one of our amazing UK Parks Adventure. Day one was Chessington World of Adventures. This park surprised me. It was very well themed and the landscaping was one of the best of the trip. This park featured my 100th coaster, Vampire!
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| The TPRers desend upon Chesington. |
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| At Chessington, we got ERT (Extra Ride Time) an hour before the park opened on Vampire and Dragon's Fury. |
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| Ist coaster of the trip: Vampire, my 100th coaster! |
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| The ride and line area were both themed very well kind of like a very pre- Dueling Dragons. The loading area featured a vampire playing a organ. |
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| Some TPRer's getting ready to be bit by the Vampire. |
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| I enjoyed Vampire a lot. It was very cool the way it went through the forest setting. |
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| Rattlesnake, the first of many wild mouses on the trip. You can't tell from this photo, but this was one of the most elaborate themed wild mouses I have ever been on. |
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| Tommy & James are ready for the thrilling powered Runaway Mine Train. |
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| Tomb Blaster was a pretty good shoot out ride with large sets and theming. |
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| The Dragon Falls Flume was fun. |
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| live2tell75 Bonafide Donkey Expert
Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Total posts: 1032 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| Next up was ERT on one of my favorite coasters of the entire trip: Dragon's Fury. |
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| Boy do you spin on this baby! |
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| Lou is all ready to conquer the Dragon! |
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| Robb is going to attack the Dragon with his video camera! |
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| The horseshoe part of the ride was insane! |
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| cfc Having a Senior Moment
Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Total posts: 11226 Location: In the lair of the Huge Hummel Boy (which is conveniently located near Williamsburg, Va.) Age: 49 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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Hi, Eric,
I recognized that guide from 2004 when my brother and I visited the Tower of London. Nice gig if you're retired from the British military, it seems.
My brain is slowly rebooting itself after this awesome trip--lemme know if you find yourself in Virginia (I'll do the same for Florida). I'm planning to post a TR focusing on dark rides, myself (especially Blackpool's) this weekend (after my brain fog clears).
Chuck
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| Here's a shot for your Southport collection. (I was able to recover most of my photos off my damaged memory card.) |
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