British Airways Gives Insight On Spending Holidays

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British Airways has given some hints to Brtons and its guests on how to enjoy their holidays for the year 2015.

The Shetland, Scotland Fire Festival, Europe’s largest fire festival, celebrated at Up Helly Aa and held every last Tuesday in the month of January is top of the airline’s recommended tourist spots.

“Crazy holidays conjure images of abseiling off Table Mountain or jet boating in New Zealand rather than visiting good old Blighty, but the Barmy Brits do have some wild attractions of their own.

“We Brits are not as dull as some might think and there are plenty of exciting, adventurous and just plain mad things to do in the UK”, says Kola Olayinka, British Airways commercial manager for West Africa.

When planning your holidays for 2015, Olayinka said it’s worth bearing in mind that the Saxon bits of the Anglo Saxons trace their ancestry back to the original mad marauders, the Vikings, arguably the pioneers of adventure tourism.

The locals dress up in full Viking regalia and the evening culminates in the burning of a longship. Sensibly, the next day is public holiday to allow everyone to recover.

Olayinka also named the World Bog Snorkelling Championships whose modern event version has taken place in Powys, Wales for the past 30 years.

“In August competitors from around the world descend on the smallest town in Britain, Llanwrtyd Wells, to pit their bog snorkelling skills in the 115-metre course”. Olayinka said. “The sport is not quite as obscure as you might think – Lonely Planet named it as one of the top 50 ‘must do’ things in 2014,” Olayinka added.

Although the British government has improved at scaring off foreign invaders, this has been more of a recent development than historical trend. One must wonder what William the Conqueror would’ve made of the good people of Witcham in Cambridgeshire, who today host the World Pea Shooting Championships. While the skills and marksmanship on display at the annual event are incredible, it’s not surprising that it was the English bowmen rather than Witcham’s pea shooters which won the day.
Source:Leadership

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