Waiting to board the zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany, April 2017
Pre-boarding! 
Microlight flight, Brittany 
Microlight flight, Brittany 
On board zeppelin 
Zeppelin over Bodensee 
Zeppelin over Bodensee 
Botswana 
Ready for seaplane flight over Halong Bay 
Landing in Edinburgh 
Heathrow flight path
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 March 2021
Posted as part of Cee’s B&W Challenge
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Travel with Intent 
Debbie, the photos are amazing. I’ve never seen anything like the zeppelin. I guess I haven’t watched the news enough. It doesn’t seem possible it could fly, yet your photos show that it clearly does! Fascinating. 🙂
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Such a great selection of things in flight
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😀 shows how lucky I’ve been on my travels
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These are so good Debbie. Very impressive range of craft and countries 🙂 🙂
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I’m thinking of doing long haul microlights for future travel. Great social distancing!
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Microlights can be fun. I actually had a go at flying one years ago. The pilot said do you want to have a go. I said as long as if I stuff up you can regain control quickly. It was a short go at the controls but yes a great way to get about. When I couldn’t drive I was thinking of getting a flight or two to K’s. Cost killed that idea 🙂
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Don’t know if I’d have the confidence to fly it myself. And it would certainly reduce the photo opportunities!
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I am a chicken when it comes to doing new things unprepared but it was a once in a lifetime chance
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In 2008 I went twice to Friedrichshafen. Ryanair were doing ludicrously cheap flights.
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It’s a beautiful place. I was staying in Konstanz, for work. I didn’t find any cheap flights, but found a cheap one into Zurich and got the train from there.
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Did you take these in colour and convert to black and white? 🙂 🙂 You’re always flying high!
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Yes, there’s no other way, re4ally, unless you have black and white film. You can tell your camera to do it if you take jpegs – but that is just the camera converting it instead of you. I can set my camera to make it look in the viewfinder as though I’m taking black and white but when I upload the raw files they are in colour! The only thing is they usually need different editing – you can be much bolder in black and white than in colour and it has taken me ages to get the confidence to do that. If I edit in b&w and then convert back to colour it would be way too colourful! But your options depend on what you use to do the conversion and editing. What do you use, Jo?
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That’s a good kwestion, Debs. You know high tech me! My ISUS laptop has its ‘in house’ processing available when I download. I use that but it’s very limited. Probably just as well. So am I 🙂 🙂
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Ha ha! If you’re happy with it just stick with it, Jo. If you try something else it will eat up your time! It can be quite addictive. Says Debbie who can edit happily for hours!
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Ooh have you sailed in one?
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Yes – an amazing experience. I hadn’t known about it before getting there so booked last minute so no choice of route. The ones that went out over Lake Constance were full for weeks ahead.
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Wow, definitely like to try it.
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It’s a great place for a restful break. The lake is beautiful and you can walk in 3 countries with ease 😀 the zeppelin is an extra treat.
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A modern Zeppelin?
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Yes – not cheap, but brilliant. Quiet and peaceful, and you can open a window and hang out to take photos 🙂
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Sound S good, but I wouldn’t be leaning out!!
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🙂 it felt very safe
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Oh, OK….and I know you ont like heights!
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I’m ok if I can hold on to something. I can have a panic attack walking up a hill in open space but I love roller coasters abs the microlight flight was a bit like a roller coaster. Well take off was at least 😀
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Ugh, roller coaster not my idea of fun, I like to be in control..so a hill climb in an open top sportscar was the thing!
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😀 and I can’t do that. Ok if someone else drives but I don’t trust myself in case I get dizzy
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Fair enough!
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Beautiful pictures, I was fascinated by airplanes since I was a child.
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Love these photos Debbie.
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What a cool collection of images.
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Thank you!
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Oh Debbie, you have some marvelous shots of the Zeppelin. Wonderful selection of photos for this week. 😀
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