[caption id="attachment_1853" align="alignright" width="250"] A aerial view of RAF Manston taken by Luftwaffe planes in 1939[/caption] We've just added a new trial flying lesson activity which takes place at Kent International Airport near Folkestone. Whilst researching the new venue, we found out the airfield has a rather interesting history. RAF Manston as the airport was previously known, has always played a high-profile military role in both war and peace time. During the First World War planes used a very precarious-sounding cliff top grass runway and as you might guess, this led to several accidents, so the landing strip was moved...
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[caption id="attachment_1850" align="alignright" width="250"] A Mother's Day present with a difference - get Mum making her own jewellery![/caption] We've only just 'recovered' from St Valentine's Day and yet Mother's Day is nearly open us, with the big day being Sunday 14th March this year. The shops are full of no-go options for our Mum : chocolates (cholesterol), cute teddy bears (has too many already), perfume (brings her out in a rash) and underwear. Just who buys their Mum underwear for Mother's Day?! That's just wrong. So, we turned to our faithful friend the t'internet and it has to be said...
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[caption id="attachment_1816" align="alignright" width="250"] Northern boy Peter Kay did a fine job in front of all those southerners hosting the 2010 Brit Awards[/caption] We just LOVE the Brit awards. All the glitz and glamour mixed with the bad jokes and the bad behaviour, it really is a great show. And this year's gathering of stars was no exception. Who could not cringe at Jonathan Ross's lame performance? Who didn't laugh when comic host Peter Kay described Lady Gaga as New York's Su Pollard? And who'd have thought they'd wheel out Mel B and Geri from the Spice Girls to collect...
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[caption id="attachment_1796" align="alignright" width="250"] The Into the Blue team has a go on the Easyglider transporters in our company car park![/caption] One of our suppliers came all the way from Berkshire to see us at Into the Blue HQ in Kent the other day in a van loaded with Easygliders for us to try! Of course, we weren't short of volunteers to head out to the ITB car park and give it a whirl on these admittedly rather odd looking gadgets. Designed in Switzerland, the Easyglider was born out of the idea of having a light, eco-friendly and easily transportable...
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[caption id="attachment_1789" align="alignright" width="250"] Book our marine wildlife tour in Wales for your very own 'Blue Planet' experience[/caption] If, like us, you were ardent fans of the multi award-winning BBC series 'The Blue Planet' with David Attenborough telling us : "Our planet is a blue planet: over seventy percent of it is covered by the sea. The Pacific Ocean alone covers half the globe. You can fly across it non-stop for twelve hours and still see nothing more than a speck of land. This series will reveal the complete natural history of our ocean planet, from its familiar shores to...
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