Hello and welcome to my first ever blog. I am completely new to this. Apologies if I am doing things completely wrong, or if I don't understand the blogging language yet. And please excuse my grammar, I'm rusty!
I suppose I will start by telling a little bit about myself, and why I am starting my blog.
I am a 42 year old mum of three kids who range from 3 years right up to 23 years.
I live in Kent, close, but not too close to the M25.
A few Sunday's back, I was having a pub lunch, when I spotted an airship. I haven't seen one since I was a child living in London. There used to be an airship that flew over London with Goodyear logo on the side. I had always wanted to see one up close.
I showed my 3 year old son Sam the airship and he was fascinated by it. Afterwards, every time we saw the Stella Artois Star Over London, he would stop what he was doing. "Mummy, the balloon is up in the air again".
" Would you like to have a go in the airship Sam"? I didn't expect him to say yes. We had been to watch the Bigging Hill Air Show earlier in the year. Things were fine until the Tornado took off and did a flyby.For anyone who has never heard a Tornado, they make the loudest sound have ever heard, ever. And the scary thing is they seem completely silent as they approach, it's only as they pass that you hear the sound and it must be what an earthquake sounds like.
When Sam heard the growl of the Tornado, he dropped to the ground covering his ears. "I have had enough, I want to go home"
And that was the end of our Biggin Hill Airshow!
I kept thinking about the airship. How could we go for a flight in it?
I thought it might be beyond my budget and then it occurred to me. I'm always Googling, why not google "win a trip on the Stella Airship? And voila, up popped http://www.londonbloggers.net/44/stellas-joining-us-for-the-summer-party/#comment-69
It was a competition to win a flight. Six flights were up for grabs. All I had to do was join the Group and write a review on my favorite pub. That was easy, it's the pub where I first saw The airship. It was fate.
I entered and won a place, and the kind people that run the competition let me take my little along, he even got his own seat.
It was wonderful, an hour long flight over London, taking in all the sights.
London looks so different from the air. I have some photos which I will be posting soon. I didn't know there was a Ferris Wheel at Greenwich. Somewhere near Charlton/Shooters Hill there was an open air swimming pool with one brave soul swimming in it. And you would not believe how many people have those giant trampolines in their gardens there were hundreds of them!
Seriously though, to see the Dome, The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palce and Canary Wharf from 300 metres was pretty cool.
