Saturday, 12 December 2009

• Top 5 Geeky Vacation Spots

  Not into laying out on the beach and lathering up with tanning lotion on your vacation?  Cruising the Caribbean as you get dolled up every night for a fantastic dinner?  If your not cool enough to enjoy these common vacation ideas, then here's a list of the top geekiest vacation ideas you could try to take your geekness to the next level.
  
  

  
  

  
  

  The Falkirk Wheel, near Glasgow

  This wheel which connects the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union Canal is actually a boat lift.  It lifts the boat from one canal to the other.  It rises a mere 112ft and lifts over 300 tons of boats and water.  All of this only takes five minutes.  You could watch this miraculous machine defy gravity on land or you could book a trip to actually go in a boat and be lifted by The Falkirk Wheel.
  

  
  Jet engines at Farnborough
  
  The Farnborough Air Science Museum displays our ancestors of the jet airplanes, as well as engines and a collection of wind-tunnel models.
  
  The museum is only open on weekends, but it is entirely free.
  
  Atomic bombs in Las Vegas
  
  Burning the midnight oil at the black jack table is just not your thing?  Well head out over to the The Ground Zero Theater where you can sit in a bunker and observe actual bomb blasts.  Las Vegas' nuclear bomb testing history has never been forgotten and this museum explains all the technology and it's processes when it comes to blowing things up.

  
  

  Supernovas at Jodrell Bank

  University of Manchester's botanical gardens was picked as a quiet sanctuary for Sir Bernard Lovell who needed this place so he could use radio signals to listen in on the heavens.  In the Granada Arboretum, you could visit the actual telescope that is still being used today to search for signals from up above.
  

  
  

  Walk the Meridian, Paris

  The French celebrate their old meridian by bronze medallions paved into the Parisian streets.  If you're in Paris and can't afford the expensive shops, try the Paris Observatory.  There is a statue of Francois Arago.  At his feet, there are the letters N and S.  North and South.  If you follow these letters, you are walking the Meridian.

  
  

  Would you try a geeky vacation?  Have you gone on any?
  

  
  

  
  
  

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