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Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis take to the open road in the 1991 movie as Thelma and Louise to drive from Arkansas to Arizona. But the Oscar-winning film wasn’t filmed in either state.
In reality, the cast and crew were based in the canyons of Utah and central valleys of California.
Instead of the Grand Canyon, the terrifying drop in final scenes can be found at Dead Horse Point, Utah, 2,000ft above the Colorado River.
Don’t get close to the edge.
Britain’s oldest preserved standard-gauge railway. Each station is restored to a different period and the Sussex woodlands bordering the line are at their best in spring, a mass of deep blue among trees. Its two 1920s Pullman cars form part of the Golden Arrow Pullman dining train on Saturday evenings and for Sunday lunch. Few of the West Country branch lines have such glorious sea views as the Torbay Express to Torquay, Paignton and Kingswear. Today the steam railway links Paignton and Kingswear, on the opposite side of the Dart Estuary from Dartmouth. Leaving Paignton, the locomotive offers panoramas over Torbay before dropping down past Agatha Christie’s holiday home at Greenway.
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With departures from in and around Birmingham, often with First Class dining on offer, these trips are a pleasure that has all but disappeared. Lovely day excursions include the Welsh Marches via Gloucester, the Severn Estuary and Hereford.
These two narrowgauge railways join at Porthmadog and offer unrivalled views of Snowdonia, including up Snowdon itself. The Rolls-Royce of e-readers now comes with six weeks of battery and warm lighting which changes the Paperwhite screen tint to amber for night-time. Waterproof to use by the pool or sea and weighs 6.6oz.