Sarum Lights

18th – 22nd February 2020

Something for your diary – A sound and light show on the outside and inside of Salisbury Cathedral to celebrate its 800th anniversary. Tickets are £5 with some great photographic possibilities. Check out what their website says:

“This awe-inspiring show combines soundscapes and stunning light projections themed around different aspects of the Cathedral’s story located in different zones, starting at the West Front and continuing throughout the inside of the Cathedral.
15-minute time slots have been allocated to reduce queuing times and to allow a designated number of people access to the Cathedral over a period of time to reduce crowding. The spectacular itself will take about 1 hour to view in full, depending on how long you spend in each ‘zone’. There is no need to rush your experience – everything is on a loop so installations can be viewed more than once if you wish.”

Here’s a link to the web site: https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/events/sarum-lights-light-and-sound-spectacular

Top Places to visit in Las Vegas

When we do our Las Vegas and the National Parks tour in a few weeks we will be spending 2 nights in Las Vegas. The first night on the strip and last night in Fremont.

On our first night we will be staying in the Flamingo. I like this as it has slightly older feel and is very close to the main action on the strip. Just across from the Flamingo is the Bellagio with its fountains. There’s a free show every 20 minutes or so and are well worth a look. Over the years I have been lucky enough to stay in quite a few of the main hotels on the strip including the Luxor, New York, Flamingo, New York, Venetian, MGM Grand and Treasure Island. They’re all great themed hotels and one of the very best is the Venetian. They say more people visit and stay at The Venetian than visit Venice in a year!! Its a vast hotel complex with over 4000 rooms, it has a canal on the 1st floor with Gondola rides and some copies of stunning Venetian art and buildings. Its well worth look round – check out the Casino and Grand Canal Shoppes with its painted sky ceiling.

The Venetian

The strip with its modern hotels is the newest part of Vegas. I like the older part around Fremont and the classic Golden Nugget hotel. If you want to see the real Vegas this is the place to go. The Fremont Experience contains bars, restaurants, ziplines and some real sights. Not to be missed.

Nearby is the Neon Sign Museum which is a scrap yard of old Vegas neon. Well worth a tour around this outside Museum. Take a night tour and many of the signs are lit up. Check out their website: https://www.neonmuseum.org/

Neon Sign Museum

Viva Las Vegas

Mike, Derek, Kim, Andrew & Nick – Grand Tour 2019 starting in Las Vegas.

It’s now just 6 weeks to the start of our first USA trip in 2020. The National Parks of Arizona and Utah. 7 of us will be heading off from Las Vegas taking in the Hoover Dam, some of the best parts of Route 66 to the Grand Canyon. Then onto Antelope Canyon at Page. The trip then heads out to the View Hotel at Monument Valley before heading North to Arches National park. Finally we visit Bryce Canyon and Zion before heading back to Las Vegas. Over a 1000 miles of classic landscapes and Americana.

Our first night is on the strip at Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel. Close to the Bellagio and Caesars Palace. Check out my next blog when I will be sharing some of the places in Vegas that are well worth making a detour.

Christmas Gift Ideas

photography courses

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Grand Tour 2019

Here are some pictures from our 2 week tour of the National Parks. We Visited Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Monument Valley, Arches, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Death Valley, Sequoia, Yosemite. Starting in Las Vegas and finishing in San Francisco. Look out for our new tour starting in 2020. Las Vegas – Death Valley – Sequoia – Yosemite – San Francisco – West Coast Highway to Los Angeles.

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Monument Valley

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