London - What a bloody rip off April 17, 2006
Posted by onthetrain in : a good old rant , add a commentIt’s unusual for me, but with the 5 day forecast for Dorset being pretty crappy I decided to do the fatherly/husbandly thing and bin diving over Easter Weekend and to take the family for a weekend in London instead!
What in Gods name was I thinking?
Firstly the populations of Australia and South Africa seem to have gone back from whence they came to be replaced by the combined populations of Italy, Russia and the Ukraine. The place was heaving. My seven year old had travelled with a very definite itinery in mind. Early train to town on saturday morning, followed by visits to the London Aquarium, Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. As we walked along the embankment towards the aquarium I got a feeling for just how busy it was going to be! The queue for the London Eye was enormous. I think it stretched to Manchester, in fact those at the back of the queue are still waiting their turn! (more…)
Diving magazines - Meaningless drivel? March 31, 2006
Posted by onthetrain in : a good old rant , 2commentsGod, Is it just me or What?
Test reports on dive reels.
Cornish dive sites, 5 GB sites to get your teeth into.
A red sea special! Untouched red sea.
Big fish in big numbers, Big blue shark special
Computors on test
God it’s all such repetitive bullshit. I’m so sick of reading the same old rehashed crap in Dive & Diver. Once you have been diving for more than 5 minutes it’s all repeated. Now I get Dive for ‘free’ with my BSAC membership, but I actually subscribed to Diver. Thank god the subscription runs out soon. It won’t be renewed.
I recently bought my first copy of Ron mahony’s ‘Beyond The Blue’. I don’t know about you, but I found it really refreshing. OK, its not as well packaged. OK, it’s got a lot of typo’s and spelling errors, but I found it a fascinating read. It’s obvious the writers are amatuers, but for me this adds rather than detracts from the product.
These are guys who know about the type of diving I want to do. I get to read about real divers diving deep wrecks and hear about the planning and logistics that went into the dive. Great stuff.
Oh, and another thing, it’s about one third of the thickness of the other two, and guess what? A few discreet pages of adverts. Thats it. A great magazine in my opinion. Guess where my subscription cash will be going?
TTFN. Alan
