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America, Countries

Rollercoasters, VelociCoaster and Orlando

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It’s all been a bit of a rollercoaster, only without the thrills so it’s good to be able to bring some good news…. VelociCoaster.

Now Veloci and I are old friends from California when he was being premiered for VIPs in Hollywood Universal.

Just a nibble

You’ll soar 155ft in the air and be catapulted up to 70mph alongside a pack of Velociraptors.

You’ll find Veloci (and me, God willing) in the Universal Orlando Resort‘s Islands of Adventure theme park from June 10.

What goes up….

Now this puts a new spin on interactive.

And Veloci fans will be able to reacquaint themselves with Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Dr Henry Wu.

The Veloci pack

The pack, obvs, Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo. Bravo!

Hang on…

There will be rocks, hell yeah, and the watchtower.

The doc will even give you the lowdown on his ‘carnivore expansion’ and Claire will help with reassuring words.

Water thrill

You’ll be sped through the paddock, hug the water.

Heck, over to my old pal Jon from Universal Orlando to describe the rush.

Ride of your life

Get ready to encounter a series of intense manoeuvres along the coaster’s 4,700 feet of track.

All including near misses and a barrel roll right above the Islands of Adventure lagoon, high-speed launches.

Upside down you’re turning me

And the fastest will reach 70 mph in 2.4 seconds.

The signature move is the ‘Top Hat’ which propels riders 155 feet in the air.

Before immediately taking you into an 80-degree drop – Universal’s steepest drop yet.Aaaaawlando!

And for more Orlando remember it’s all a beautiful escape.

MEET YOU ON THE RIDE

 

 

Caribbean, Countries, Culture, Ireland

Rainy Days and Songdays – the Cucumba rap

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Cucumbers are my kind of vegetables. They’re not in the league of mushrooms I grant you, but who is?

But they are easy to prepare… and if you want to go to a lot of bother you can even slice them before eating.

What rhymes with Cucumba?

Which we’ve been doing for our new house guests Poo and Pee, our lockdown gifts to ourselves, our guinea pigs.

Easy to make for the kids

All of which prompted Daddy’s Little Girl to point me in the direction of this Jamaican rapper and his contribution to the panoply of music.

I give you Macka B and Cucumba https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGlon_ezvU.

I should by now already have visited Jamaica.

Life’s rollercoasters

Jamaica my day

Only I had double-booked by sending a colleague to Orlando to satisfy his rollercoaster addiction and who can blame him? See www.vistorlando.com and Aaawlando… Orlando, the rollercoaster capital, See off Voldemort, then for a beer at Moe’s and Why I love The Donald.

So Jamaica had to be put on hold while I did the TV column that week… something by the remarkably unfunny Amy Huberman I remember.

The good folk from Jamaica promised they would have me back… cannot wait https://www.visitjamaica.com.

Irie!

To add it to my Caribbean scrapbook http://www.visitbarbados.org, Let’s rumba in Barbados, My kiss with Rihanna and http://www.visittobago.gov.tt and https://www.google.ie/amp/s/jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2020/03/17/ready-steady-goat-racing-in-tobago/amp/

The last dance

Our friends in the Travel Trade have been showing remarkable resilience and bonhomie as they wrestle with the worst thing ever to have hit our industry.

And few more than our friends at Travel Biz http://travelbiz.ie who have been putting on a Friday night Zoom disco over the last couple of months.

It was bittersweet then to take to the dance floor (my study) on Friday for the last time.

But it does mean that TravelBiz and all our other Trade professionals and holiday providers who are the most important people of all are ready for the off.

Here’s a little more of the fun.

MEET YOU ON THE DANCE FLOOR