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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
Looks kind of like a manatee. Oh, the huge manatee!
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Ooh I was thinking about airships just today! I saw one over Greenwich and thought, "Wow I'd love to go up in one!" just because it would remind me of all the cool alternate universes where they still have them (I'd be busy pretending to be Thursday Next or Lyra Silvertongue!)
Came back to work and checked it out online. Whaddya know - it wasn't a promotional airship I saw - it was
an actual fee-paying sightseeing one. The FEE in fee-paying is well out of my reach. But wonderful to know it's there (in my backyard!) should I ever win the lottery.
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A handful of paying passengers will be able to do just that over the coming six weeks - weather permitting - if their pockets are deep enough to pay £360 for the hour-long flight, rather more than the cost of a return fare to Florida, but apparently comparable to a helicopter trip ... and quieter.
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From the article, photograph Graeme Robertson