Dang Airlines!

Ryan Air's prices to Dublin for TCASU are not impressing me at the moment. I don't view £80 return as all that low cost (even though I know it is) - the question now is to wait for a bit and see if there are any special offers or just bite the bullet?

Do we book to stay in the "Old Country" a little longer so I can take M to exciting places like Cappamore, or do I just save the holiday in case we can afford to go somewhere hot and sunny in late September? We've been told that if you want an eating, drinking and reading style of holiday, Dubai is reasonable and highly luxurious...

So many questions? Answers are welcome!

A Sad Dose of Reality

This excellent article on Space settlement groups sadly does pretty well sum up my current feelings towards this sort of thing.

Back in the halcyon days of the 1980's I even flirted with the Space Settlers Society and L5 types. Didn't last. The gap between the desire and the potential for execution was then, as now, too huge to contemplate.

Sadly, I don't see my name sake's colonies being built in anything like the timescales they proposed in The High Frontier.