An early start and a packed day with two parks, a fair, and a bunch of cowboys...
An early start and a packed day with two parks, a fair, and a bunch of cowboys...
It was yet another early start with everyone back on the bus at 7am, but for good reason: we had an important appointment with a special person to keep
Our first destination of the day was OK Corral
We were greeted at the entrance by park owner Mathijs Bembom, one of the famous Bembom Brothers who owned Dreamland Margate in the 1980s and early 90s
Mathijs took us for a tour of the park, telling us a little about OK Corral's story along the way
We walked over to take a ride on Gold Rush, a rollercoaster with a few tricks up its sleeve
Queuing for Pioneer
The inventive coaster allows riders to choose between riding in carriages or on horseback
Proudly showing off OK Corral's brand new Grande Ourse
We were surprised with gift bags from the park
A very welcome drink in the Tombstone Bar - thank you very much for your extraordinary hospitality Mathijs
Feeling refreshed, we set out to explore more of the park
OK Corral's other rollercoaster was Serpent Hopi
The mysteries of the west were hidden inside
Riding the mine carts
Lunch in the Tombstone Saloon
On the wheel ... we went around twice because someone (ahem, Mess) fell asleep ;-)
Entering Alligator Island through the giant alligator mouth
Peter and I braved Aigle Noir, a hugely fun Troika with some nice forces
Exit through the gift shop
Mathijs came to wave us off - we'd had a great time in his park in the sunshine
Magic Park Land was about a 45 minute drive from OK Corral
Fantastic negotiation skills by Paul at the entrance got us all in for the pensioner rate
Strom was the park's largest coaster ... unfortunately it was pretty terrible
Formula 1 was at one end of the park
It was a Fabbri Spinning Mouse
Typically rough and not great
Definitely a ride-it-once kind of rollercoaster
On the Grande Roue
The dark ride was the standard kind of ghost train
The final rollercoaster to ride was Shark Trip, Magic Park Land's kiddie coaster
We found the rest of the group had done everything in the park too
Park done? Must be ice cream time then.
There wasn't much to do and it wasn't a great amusement park, so we all agreed to leave half an hour early
Our final destination of the day was Fabrikus World
The park offers a range of mainly fairground type rides and attractions
Crazy Mouse, the second spinning wild mouse of the day
La Pomme ... aka yet another wacky worm
The largest rollercoaster at Fabrikus World was EuroLoop
It was an old Vekoma MK-1200 - weirdly the inversions were more comfortable than the straight bits!
Eurospeed was a long powered mine train
The haunted house was fun, and had a chainsaw guy at the end
Another sunset big wheel ride
Dinner time
A round of hot dogs for everyone
Night had fallen - at 10:30pm it was time to leave after a long day of coaster riding
It was only a short drive to our hotel. Once again the rooms were basic and not particularly large for two people sharing, so it was a case of playing jenga with the furniture to make a bit of space!
Day 8: Parc Spirou Provence and Amigoland