This isn’t a reality….yet! It is a concept / project by the French designer Jean Marie Massaud (of the Massaud Studio in partnership with ONERA – the centre for French aerospace research) and is allegedly planned for completion in 2020 – don’t hold your breath!
The concept is designed to carry some 40 paying (probably very rich) passengers / guests and 15 staff in reportedly between 20 and 60 bedrooms. It is also planned to have a spa, a gym, a library and obviously dining (restaurant) and drinking (bar) facilities. All of this will be provided in a couple of glass storeys hanging under a large (helium filled?) blimp providing unique panoramic views over the world from a height of 18,000 feet.
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The good people of the North Devon village of Bishop’s Tawton are less than happy with a local farmer, according to today’s Daily Mail.
Struggling to make ends meet in dairy farming he converted his farm to a camping and caravan site some seven years ago, however he has now converted a barn into ‘Club Vanilla’ which has a license to hold 12 swinging ‘events’ a year after he found running disco’s for teens to be too much hassle.
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My partner (Kevin), 5-year old son (Ryan) and I went on a week-end break over Easter to the ‘Jurassic Coast’ in Dorset. As our son has recently developed a huge interest in dinosaurs and fossils we thought it would be a great idea to foster that interest by taking him fossil hunting on the beaches and my partner had done as a child.
As we booked the trip at fairly late notice, and being over the Easter period, much of the accommodation in the area was already booked. After quite a bit of calling around I managed to get a room in the Kersbrooke (Bed and Breakfast) Hotel in Lyme Regis for a couple of nights before checking the place out on TripAdviser, where the comments weren’t wholly complementary. We found the proprietor to be extremely welcoming and friendly and the cooked breakfasts excellent. OK, the room wasn’t the largest, especially with the addition of a put-up bed for Ryan, and the shower room was in which is best described as a cupboard, but it suited our requirements, was perfectly clean and only a few minutes walk down into the town.
The Kersbrooke Hotel
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