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Old 2nd May 2014 | 15:21
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Oban or Islay are a good call, if your wife can do the flying home you can sample some whiskies too.
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Old 3rd May 2014 | 08:11
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Some good suggestions. Many of them we have done. I guess we have been looking for places to fly that are not too far for many years.

Possibles from that list are Skegness, Clacton and the Scottish ones. Trying to keep it under an hour for the bored kids!

Some other good suggestions for longer trips like overnight. Fancy Sligo and Scilly and Plockton. I have once flown off Scilly (but not onto it) when someone I let use my plane landed, burst a tyre and left it there. It is a lovely place. It is also ten or fifteen minutes further flying time than Northern France for us!

Aberporth is a great one. We have done that one with a walk down to the beach. Is it not always open these days?

Anyway thanks for the ideas. If the weather is nice we will be going to one of them.
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Old 5th May 2014 | 22:52
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Trying to keep it under an hour for the bored kids!


Woodvale or Walney sounds ideal for you.
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Old 6th May 2014 | 16:54
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Come on then, the suspense is killing me. Where did you go?
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Old 6th May 2014 | 17:01
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Ha ha! Kendal. I did the gardening because the weather was rubbish in Scotland. I had been to everywhere else apart from Skegness and Clacton (which I was considering) where it was sunny but I read reviews about the towns and decided my kids were better served in our garden in Kendal!

I will try again this weekend instead. I have been instructed by my wife that my choice would be Coll or Collonsay or Plockton if we go up north and Scilly if we go south. I will let you know when the trip finally happens.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
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Old 10th May 2014 | 15:56
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Into a chateau private strip in France?

Though perhaps a bit more than your 1.5 flight time...?

Cheers, Sam.
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Old 10th May 2014 | 16:10
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Which one. Can you suggest one. Sounds fun for a future weekend.
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Old 10th May 2014 | 17:12
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Been here a couple of times, good for kids as well.

Location of The Muckleburgh Military Collection Tank Museum and and Airstrip
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