Tambogganing

September 4th, 2007 by James

It’s not been a spectacular summer weatherwise, has it? Then again, at least it hasn’t snowed. Well, not outside anyway.

In Tamworth, however, it snows every day at the Snowdome.

I’ve just got back from there after a spectacular tobogganing session this evening.

Courtesy of some rather nifty controls, the toboggans were steerable and brakeable (but where’s the fun in that?) down the length of the real proper cold snowified slope … hopefully slowing to a graceful stop at the bottom.

A bargain at just £8 for the half hour session - especially since we only shared it with 10 others instead of the usual 120 session capacity!

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  1. 1 Tom M

    “Graceful stop” is a little optimistic in my experiences… it was more like “try not to mow down the attendants while crashing into things…”

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    It’s Snow Joke…

    For a ‘warm up’ to a 5 day tour of some UK theme parks. James and I started with a session tobogganing at the Tamworth Snowdome.
    This was a lot of fun. if utterly exhausting. Toboggans were almost impossible to control, and I ended up fa…

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