Today we were able to do one of my Birthday presies from about 2 years ago! Bounced because of covid. It was a helicopter flight over Oxfordshire. We spent the night at Tim's and had a great time there, as we usually do, and set off this morning while he kindly dog sat.
I was expecting to go to an aerodrome of some kind but in fact we rocked up to a field! The check in desk was just that, a desk in the aforementioned field. The helicopter took four people at a time. There were a couple of flights ahead of us so we just waited and watched. Then our turn! A brief safety talk, don't walk near the back end rotor and do as we tell you basically! We had our photo taken ( see below) were escorted into the helicopter and strapped in. We were off! It was incredibly loud, louder than I thought it may be but we had headphones on so it didn't matter. We quickly climbed into the blue ( I should have asked how high we went but I didn't think of it!) It was strange but I felt we were travelling quite slowly but viewing from the ground the helicopter was hurtling along.
Flew over lots of greenery with very few houses it appeared, and all too soon we were landing. It was only a taster flight but good fun nonetheless. We also got a glass of champers each ( small bottle each to be exact) and a box of chocolates. What else but Milk Tray! of course you do have to be old enough to remember the Milk Tray man adverts to get it!
Fab morning, lovely presie. What's not to like?
