Summer holidays

Linton · 08-31-07, 04:29 PM

What did you do on your summer holidays?
I managed to get to the HMS Raleigh open day.This is really a family day for the people based there but my family and I turned up nevertheless.
Raleigh is where all new RN seamen do their basic training,but it is also the home of the RN submarine school and museum!
I had a look at their periscope recognition training device,saw a towed array,xbt etc.
We were having a picnic under a tree near the parade ground and the base commodore made a bee-line for us to say hello.
I also saw a t-boat in the adjacent dockyard plus a few frigates.So not a bad summer holiday.

Rose · 09-01-07, 12:23 PM

I am 16 and live in America, thus I get extremely long holidays for school. I get June, July, and August off and I go back to school in a week. The first two weeks of June I went to Africa with my grandparents and brother, which was amazing. I put some pictures up about a month ago. Then I went to Aspen, Colorado for two weeks in July. I interned for the environmental affairs department of Aspen Skiing Company -- saving the world one phone call at a time...

I got some great hiking and biking in during me free time. Unfortunately I didn't get to hit the rapids, but I was working alot so it was hard to find time. Starting August 1st Ive been in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin -- one of the greatest places on earth. It's a crystal clear, warm, blue lake in southern Wisconsin bout an hour and a half from Chicago, and I've been coming up here since I was 3 or so. I have a bunch of friends up here and we go boating, water-skiing, wakeboarding, wave-running, swimming, diving, sailing, para-sailing, partying, etc. It's good times up here in Wisco. I'm sure anyone living in the US saw the news of flooding throughout the Midwest, and we were hit really hard. Some streets in town were completely flooded from a river, and they had to make the WHOLE lake a "no-wake-zone" because the water rose ONE FOOT! They were afraid that waves would erode the shoreline and destroy piers, which did happen. I was driving along the shore in our boat the other day and I notived a huge chunk of shore-line had collapsed into the water due to a land-slide. Everything's fine now though, they lifted the ordnance last week and it's sunny again. Anyway, I've been up here for a month and I have 2 days left of great weather, so it's a great end to a great summer.

Kapitan · 09-01-07, 02:50 PM

I worked i dont get summer holiday off infact my collection route becomes twice as heavy thanks to kids being off school, but the one thing we do loose is the school bins they dont have to be collected.

End of year means you through away alot of your old school books yes thankyou those people who continuasly making us over wieght and having 1430 finnishs

Personally two weeks off is enough and then send them back.

08-31-07, 04:29 PM	#1
Linton Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,898 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Summer holidays What did you do on your summer holidays? I managed to get to the HMS Raleigh open day.This is really a family day for the people based there but my family and I turned up nevertheless. Raleigh is where all new RN seamen do their basic training,but it is also the home of the RN submarine school and museum! I had a look at their periscope recognition training device,saw a towed array,xbt etc. We were having a picnic under a tree near the parade ground and the base commodore made a bee-line for us to say hello. I also saw a t-boat in the adjacent dockyard plus a few frigates.So not a bad summer holiday. __________________ http://lintonsview.blogspot.com/

09-01-07, 02:50 PM	#3
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,131 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	I worked i dont get summer holiday off infact my collection route becomes twice as heavy thanks to kids being off school, but the one thing we do loose is the school bins they dont have to be collected. End of year means you through away alot of your old school books yes thankyou those people who continuasly making us over wieght and having 1430 finnishs Personally two weeks off is enough and then send them back. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

09-01-07, 12:23 PM	#2
Rose Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 966 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I am 16 and live in America, thus I get extremely long holidays for school. I get June, July, and August off and I go back to school in a week. The first two weeks of June I went to Africa with my grandparents and brother, which was amazing. I put some pictures up about a month ago. Then I went to Aspen, Colorado for two weeks in July. I interned for the environmental affairs department of Aspen Skiing Company -- saving the world one phone call at a time... I got some great hiking and biking in during me free time. Unfortunately I didn't get to hit the rapids, but I was working alot so it was hard to find time. Starting August 1st Ive been in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin -- one of the greatest places on earth. It's a crystal clear, warm, blue lake in southern Wisconsin bout an hour and a half from Chicago, and I've been coming up here since I was 3 or so. I have a bunch of friends up here and we go boating, water-skiing, wakeboarding, wave-running, swimming, diving, sailing, para-sailing, partying, etc. It's good times up here in Wisco. I'm sure anyone living in the US saw the news of flooding throughout the Midwest, and we were hit really hard. Some streets in town were completely flooded from a river, and they had to make the WHOLE lake a "no-wake-zone" because the water rose ONE FOOT! They were afraid that waves would erode the shoreline and destroy piers, which did happen. I was driving along the shore in our boat the other day and I notived a huge chunk of shore-line had collapsed into the water due to a land-slide. Everything's fine now though, they lifted the ordnance last week and it's sunny again. Anyway, I've been up here for a month and I have 2 days left of great weather, so it's a great end to a great summer.