Antarctica Empire of the Penguin SeaWorld Preview Antartica is about to get much more accessible. The biggest ever extension to Florida’s SeaWorld is due to open May 2013 and will introduce visitors to The Empire of the Penguin. While in Orlando recently SeaWorld gave us ten minutes behind the scenes with one of the stars of the [...]
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Talking Point 18: Just a cup of coffee?
Talking Point: Just a cup of coffee? I took this photo in the water pavilion at the 2012 Floriade, a once a decade international horticultural festival that takes place in Holland. I thought a horticultural show would be a boring day out; I mean how much fun can you have checking out the latest flowers? [...]
Talking Point 11: How many tourists?
Talking Point 11: How many tourists? Have you ever wondered how many tourists are there in the world? No? Well, imagine a million people suspended in the air all around the planet right now. That’s roughly how many people are flying at any given time according to the BBC programme Super Sized Earth, a series [...]
Can comic heros save us from death by detergent?
How do you save an iconic lake from death by detergent? It’s a job for superheroes and needs community involvement, kids included. But how do you engage kids in serious environmental stuff like this? At Windermere Reflections they’ve recruited a time travelling girl with a teddy bear, a starlit umbrella, a smartphone app and local [...]
Fisherman Fishing Village – at Sudureyri
If you live in the remote Western Fjords of Iceland, you have to be imaginative about how you reel in visitors and their spending money. That’s where fish hooks come in useful as we found out when we visited the Fisherman Fishing Village Project in Sudureyri…. The Fisherman Fishing Village – at Sudureyri In Sudureyri [...]
Puffin hunting – in Vestmannaeyjar
We’d seen them from afar on a schooner in Husavik. We’d seen them on the menu in Reykjavik. We’d seen them as soft toys, keyrings and postcards, but we hadn’t seen a real one up-close for ourselves. So where better than on Vestmannaeyjar (the Westman Islands), home to the world’s largest puffin colony, to try [...]
Theatre of Nature, at Floriade 2012, Venlo
Venlo is the second largest continuous horticultural area in Western Europe. And this year it’s also home to the latest reincarnation of Floriade – a pop up World Horticultural Expo that appears once a decade. If you don’t know what that means, think the biggest garden party in the world. The theme for the 2012 [...]
Working Party! Volunteers head out to fix the fells
Working Party! Volunteers head out to fix the fells When you are out walking do you ever wonder who made your footpath? Or do you imagine it has been there since the beginning of time? We checked out a National Trust conservation project in the Lake District that aims to ‘Fix The Fells‘ after people [...]
A Blue Sky Go Green Go Lake District Travel Plan!
10 Ideas for cleaner, greener Lake District travel As a family of cyclists the idea of holidaying without a car seems quite normal to us, but it’s not so for everyone. After a day spent trialing electric bikes we took ourselves off to the launch of Go Lakes Travel to find out about a £6.9m, four year [...]
Down the Waste End
From: StuartSubject: Down the waste endDate: 5th April 2006Place: Penrith, Cumbria After an hour spent dodging fume-belching juggernauts on Penrith industrial estates we finally found the place. We rested our bikes and trailers against giant cubes of crushed tin cans stacked four metres high and surveyed the scene. After a week in the Eden Valley, [...]
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