FINDING THE FORCE - In search of the locations of Star Wars

That's easy!

Ealry Learning Centre, 3 bags of sand - go minature!!

Seriously though, Ya got me thinking. Certainly there are sand dunes (licnolnshire coast, North Wales, snow (er Scotland!) and woods (everywhere!) I wonder how easy it would be to create SW in the UK?

But I'm still going to FIND THE FORCE!!!!!

 

LATEST NEWS...

Tunisia Trip is looking to be moved to early April 08.

10-14 days in the sand!

Anyone interested in coming along, let me know!

 

Firming up on the dates now...

Depart 2 April (Gatwick) returning 17 April.

flights £120 rtn (all inc)
Hotel (Main base) £200 each for the 14 days (inc food and Booze!!!!)

Car hire.... the BIG debate - cheapest found so far .....£400 for a PUNTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the US it cost us £500 for a VAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

what a coincidence,as me and the groovers were considering a trip to tunisia for next eyar,but decided against it cos it's for the most part a ****-hole of a destination,lol.
i was really up for going,and had convinced the wife and a few pals who'd been previously,but now having reviewed the hard evidence,it seems likely that we'll give it a miss next year... or maybe not,lol.
last year we did death valley... i have here in my hand a big bag of sand from artoos dunes at stovepipe wells,and some awesome photos from the road to jabbas palace,which was mindblowing...even my wife was stunned by how instantly recognisable it is,nearly thirty years later...the dantes view overlook,aka mos eisley overlook is a heart-pounding walk along a ridge but an awesome view once there! the same for the tusken raider canyon where they shot the elephant as the bantha... we never found the trail that artoo pootles along but may have driven past it,without realising,lol.
death valley was simply awesome,
i want to go to tunisia now.
in november we're going to california and will be visiting the redwoods,and attempting to break into the lucasfilm art department at the ranch.
they'll never take me alive,

 

WE ARE BOOKED!!!!

OK here's the deal...

Fly out Gatwick Fri 28 Mar to Tunis (£138 return)

FLIGHT No BA6848

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fx/public/en_gb?eId=111011&timest

Booked in Hotel at Djerba until Sun 13 April (£200ish per head)
You can stay in Tunisia for less but we intend to chill out as well as go to Tatooine!!

This is where we booked it through

http://www.travelrepublic.co.uk/Hotels/Tunisia/Hotels_in_Djerba.html

Here is the Hotel

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g297941-d557463-Reviews-Djerba_Sun_Club-Jerba.html


Fly back Tunis to Gatwick Sun 13 April

FLIGHT No BA6849

Car Hire - TBC.... cheapest found so far £376 for a Pegeuot 206



Plan is to 'find accom' for the West side when we get there - Thanks to Jeremy Beckett for the list of hotels!

Now the core group is booked, anyone else who wants to come should stick with this thread. Use the links here to find out more. Even if you come out for a week, we can still all meet up and see Tatooine!!!


Best thing to do is to go in groups of 4 - Best for accomm and hire car.

I know of at least 2 who are interested...

Let me know if you wanna come!!!!!

 

I went to Naboo lake retreat (Lake como, Italy), check out the photos in my signature

 

Got a few guys interested in coming along. PM me if you wanna come. I need to group you up to make your trip cheaper!!

We need to get things finalised in the next few weeks (before the prices go up!)

 

BAD NEWS....

The hotel we were due to stay is going to be CLOSED!!!!!




GOOD NEWS

They've put us in a 4 Star Luxury hotel for the same price - WOW!!!!!

We'll be living like movie stars baby!!!!!!

http://www.lts-orient.ch/lts-Tunesien/Hotel/Djerba/Mouradi%20Djerba%20Menzel/El%20Mouradi%20Djerba%20Menzel.jpg

 

Well we just got back from Tunisia.

With the recent terrorist events in the Country, we have been deliberately quiet prior to our departure (didn't want to tell the nasty terrorists when and where we were going!). However now we are back from the Jundland wastes, the Homestead and Annie's house we can breathe easy and look forward to watching all the footage and photos we took!!!

Hopefully we will get some images on-line real soon (once we have recovered!)

 

Glad you're home safe, Darren. Looking forward to seeing the photos