Posted in Blog, Places to visit | Comments Off on September 21st, 2010
Alton Towers (UK)
Alton Towers is one of the most popular theme parks in the United Kingdom. There is a reason Alton Towers is so popular - it has some of the most exhilarating and scary rides in the UK. Unlike other theme parks such as Thorpe Park, Drayton Manner and Chessington World of Adventures, Alton Towers has rides that can only be found there. Air is one of the easiest ways to experience flying like Superman. Or, experience going backwards on Thi3teen. Sharkbait in the Sea Life section recently opened, featuring over 300 different species of sea life, in over ...
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Posted in Blog, Travelling | Comments Off on September 12th, 2010
Ask any game geek and they will tell you Japan is a mecca for all things in the video game world. It is one of the only countries where you can walk into a game shop and grab retro games from the Famicom (Nintendo Entertainment System) the Megadrive, the Playstation and a variety of other consoles from bygone days ('bygone' in gaming parlance is around five years or so).
There are also tons of retro consoles to look at and purchase. A popular store is
Hard-Off, this store is filled with boxes of consoles, extra power plugs, controllers and ...
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Posted in Blog | Comments Off on September 2nd, 2010
2010
It may be the year 2010 now, but surely some type of hover vehicle should be invented by Japan or some other technologically advanced place by 2015. If Back to the Future Part II is anything to go by, in the next five years people will be traveling on hoverboards rather than walking or cycling. How hard is it really to create little hover jets that attach underneath a normal skateboard? If NASA can send a space shuttle weighing 1,650,000 pounds into space, surely they can design a board to hold a human weighing 180 pounds a few inches above ...
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