Eclipse!
Well we have a solar eclipse on its way and I am not working. So… a group of us are headed for the beach with our special solar shades (being brought by Disco Dave) to view the sun’s disappearance. I did see the eclipse that hit the UK in 1999, however in usual UK style the sun was totally obscured already by the usual leaden grey clouds, so, whilst it was still pretty awesome, we were not able to actually see the shadow of the moon itself. Sadly I was not quite in Cornwall either, so it wasn’t 100%.
This time I did have ambitious plans of busing it up to North West Egypt to witness the full totality in glorious clear skies, however when I looked at the map, I realised with the slight lack of motorways here, the journey was likely to take around 30 hours!
So… Terrazzina beach it is for us. We will get 75% and the earlier clouds have done us the favour of departing, so it should still be pretty cool to see.