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  • 21-10-2014 8:02pm
    #1
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭


    On my 50th birthday, I wanted to do something memorable to make it a bit special. All my plans failed badly, except in the end I bought myself a great big motorbike, which I still have.

    Now my 60th is fast approaching (ok I am giving away my age here but what the hell)

    The reason for this post is I have no idea what to do to celebrate this milestone, especially when I bear in mind it is a birthday I thought a couple of years ago that I would not live to see.

    What I would like from you my good friends on here (and Chucken too of course LOL LOL :pac: ) is possible suggestions for something for my birthday.


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,044 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Are you thinking of a gift for yourself, or a holiday, or something to do? Would you fancy something like a balloon trip or that kind of experience? Something for a day or a week, for yourself or for a group?


  • #3
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    To be honest Looksee I don't really know. For my 50th I had planned a sky diving trip which failed and now I am not sure I am medically fit. I tried a helicopter flight but was prevented at the last minute.

    Really I just have no real idea what to plan for.


  • #4
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Hot air balloon flight.


  • #5
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    How about a trip somewhere that you could indulge your interest in old fossils???? (Not us, of course:D:D)

    There are tours in Dorset area or spread your wings and head to the Grand Canyon.

    A trip in a hot air balloon also gets a vote from me. I often see them floating over East Anglia and have to say it looks like an idyllic trip.


  • #6
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,044 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You might have to put it off to next summer, but you know that gurt big aquaduct that carries a canal in north Wales, take a narrowboat trip over that and across the north of England, or at least part of it.
    This is the one I am talking about http://www.waterwaysholidays.com/wales_canals.htm thats just a website at random, there are other firms doing narrowboats. Well its something I would love to do!


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  • #7
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Some great ideas there


    Maybe take up a bit of powered paragliding (I think that is the right name you sit on a chair with a big fan on the back and hang on to a parachute and fly around a bit)


  • #8
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 45,820 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Some great ideas on Google.....maybe add "Wales" in the search box for something local :)


  • #9
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I've sat here cranking my brain and I came up with nuthin' for you Rube. Sorry I've no ideas at all, nothing occurs, mainly because there is nothing much I want to do myself except, just to be happy! :) So I wish you buckets of happy-ness for your birthday!


  • #10
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Hookers and coke. Why the hell not? :)


    Take a trip to the Nürburgring in Germany and hire a taxi to take you around the track. Epic giggles for those that love speedy motors. http://www.nuerburgring.de/en/drives-fun/drives/co-pilot-rides/bmw-ring-taxi.html

    After that take your own hire car around. :D

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #11
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Brilliant ideas folks thank you all so much. And thanks for the good wishes too, but I have a few months yet to plan things out, not ina panic yet.

    keep-calm-and-don-t-panic-mr-mainwaring.png


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  • #12
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    doesn't Wales now have the longest zip wire in the world? some old quarry has been utilised to rig it up


  • #13
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    So I have heard but on the video it looks a tad boring for the price BBDBB


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