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COASTER IN MOM JEANS
If a coaster wore mom jeans, how would it wear them?


Living Like a Little Woodland Creature at Tripsdrill's Natur-Resort
When scoping out a trip to Tripsdrill , what finally made me book wasn’t the siren song of silly animatronics and solid coasters, but the...
Aug 24, 2024
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Erlebnispark Tripsdrill: Made With Love and the Most Horrifying Animatronics Imaginable
Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, Germany’s oldest theme park, operates with the slogan “ mit liebe gemacht ” (made with love), and after my...
Jul 20, 2024
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Cracking the Tokyo DisneySea Code (19/03/2024)
Our last full day in Japan was also our second and last attempt at having a fulfilling DisneySea day. A week earlier, we’d had a somewhat...
Jun 28, 2024
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Getting Down with the Sickness at Tokyo Disneyland (18/03/2024)
After our challenging first day at Tokyo DisneySea, I approached our day at Disneyland with a fair degree of trepidation. By this point...
May 19, 2024
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Falling in Love with Nagashima Spaland (16/03/2024)
This blog post is essentially a love letter to Nagashima Spaland; an amusement park that now ranks as one of my favourite parks in the...
May 4, 2024
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Revisiting Universal Studios Japan: Part Two (14/03/2024)
Emerging once again from the green pipe of Super Nintendo World just after 1pm, we set about trying to mop up the other activities we...
Apr 27, 2024
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Revisiting Universal Studios Japan a Decade On: Part One (14/03/2024)
Universal Studios Japan was the only park during our trip that wasn’t new to me. I crumble slightly more into dust every time I recall...
Apr 14, 2024
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Joypolis and Letting Go of Eejanaika (12/03/2024)
Was this queue at Joypolis better than standing in a wet, closed theme park? Yes, but not by much. We tried so hard to visit Fuji Q...
Apr 7, 2024
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Tokyo DisneySea Day One: Everything is Yabai (11/03/2024)
Yabai: one little word in Japanese that holds infinite meaning. Awful, cool, pretty, scary: you name it, it can be conveyed with yabai....
Mar 29, 2024
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Japan Trip: Hanayashiki and Yomiuriland (10/03/2024)
This is the first blog post from my 13 day trip this March to Japan, which primarily centred on theme parks and attractions. For context,...
Mar 23, 2024
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My Slightly Cursed Trip to Parc Astérix
It was 4am – just under 5 hours before my flight and the morning after the air traffic control fiasco in the UK that had unleashed a...
Sep 10, 2023
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Ranking the Rides of the Efteling
Here's a ranking of all the rides I've experienced at the Efteling, from worst to best!
Nov 27, 2022
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Solo Theme Park Trips
Long, long ago, I lived in Japan for a year as part of my undergraduate degree. I was definitely already a theme park fan back then, but...
Nov 10, 2022
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My First Visit to Efteling, September 2022
As someone who loves thrills, but loves beautifully themed environments just as much, Efteling in the Netherlands, with its confident and...
Oct 8, 2022
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Efteling and the Power of Inheritable Nostalgia
As night fell on the 4th September 2022, Spookslot, the beloved haunted castle walkthrough attraction at the Efteling, gave its final...
Sep 25, 2022
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What I Love (and Loathe) about Phantasialand
After two very different visits to Phantasialand in Germany within the last twelve months, I feel I am now in a position to reflect on...
Sep 11, 2022
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Phantasialand 2022: Coming Out of the Covid Bubble
Oh, Phantasialand: it was the sort-of decent of times, it was the worst of times. Before I get into this blog, I would like to preface it...
Jul 30, 2022
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