Archive for April, 2004
A leap into the known
Telegraph, 3 April 2004
Dangerous sports are getting safer, but there are plenty of student thrill-seekers left, says Carl Wilkinson
Early one April morning 25 years ago David Kirke, founder of the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, threw himself from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol attached only by a piece of elastic. Bungee jumping was born.
Immediately, students [...]
The Financial Times, 2 April 2004
In the cosy bar of the Craigellachie Hotel in Scotland’s Speyside, the barman is having trouble pouring a dram of whisky. The bar is lined with 500 different bottles: he can’t remember where he left the one he wants. Welcome to Whisky Country.
The hotel is slightly fusty - cigar smoke, [...]
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