Perfect preparation & sublime flavours mean delicious results when you spend a day at this cooking academy! This highly-regarded cookery school in Rickmansworth Hertfordshire opens the doors to a whole world of cuisine offering small group lessons in a home-from-home setting. The cooking academy is Kumud Gandhi's creation & she along with her fellow tutors are all incredibly passionate & gifted cooks. But that's just the half if it. Not only are they all highly skilled in the kitchen they are also fab teachers. The setting helps set the scene too with lessons at the cooking academy taking place in the large very stylish domestic kitchen. It's homely with that modern farmhouse feel stunning granite work surfaces & an outlook capable of distracting you from your workstations
- the gardens are gorgeous! The school's philosophy for food is fascinating. Cooking is seen as mix of science & alchemy where blending & combining flavours aromas & spices leads to delicious...
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Book your tickets for the Crystal Maze live in London! The hit 90s TV game show just got real
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Play for real at the Crystal Maze live in Manchester! Bringing the hit TV game show to life you'll be taking part in your very own episode of the Crystal Maze at this amazing location in the heart of Manchester's St John's area. Where better to play the Crystal Maze game than in the former Granada Studios? This vast studio has been home to the likes of Coronation Street The Royal Family & Cracker. Now it's a fabulous facsimile of the original Crystal Maze set right down to the iconic Dome & even the slide into the Aztec zone. This 'real life' version of the show is just as wild & whacky as the show on the telly. You'll be tackling the very same games as the teams who appeared on the show all with the aim of collecting as many crystals as you can. Will it be fist-pumping high-fiving success or will you & your team fail to win the crystals? & don't forget the more crystals you have the longer you get in the iconic Crystal Dome. It's frantic in there as you desperately try & grab hold of those shiny gold tokens with the powerful fans blowing them everywhere. Just like original hosts Richard O' Brien Ed Temple-Tudor & Richard Ayoade your Crystal Maze journey will be presided over by one of the 20 Manchester Maze Masters. They're the all-seeing eyes when it comes to tackling the games & puzzles. They stay in character all the time & with pretty big personalities they really make the game experience special. With lots of shrieks of delight (or despair) laughter & lots of banter it's quite possibly the ultimate team experience. What's more it's all so much like the TV show in its authenticity (even the music is the same!) that you'll really feel like you're a contestant. It's totally immersive & hands-on so prepare to run climb & scramble your way around the zones. The Crystal Maze Live in Manchester is an epic production worthy of the original television show in an iconic studio location. Time to get your team together give yourselves a witty team name & see if you can reach the dizzy heights of the Crystal Maze leaderboard in Manchester! ...

The Getaway Driver experience
- a fun day of villainy at the wheel driving some of the most famous getaway cars from decades past.
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Five course luncheon & stunning Kentish scenery on these luxury day voyages by train by Belmond ...

Prepare yourself for The Launch. This crazy reverse bungee experience will see you catapulting 120ft into the air. What’s more it’ll be your nearest & dearest who’ll be launching you!

Yep at the press of one very large red button you will be launched at a rate of knots into the sky. It’s all a little bit mad. You will be fully harnessed up & then connected to a single bungee cord which is anchored to the ground. The cord is then stretched...and stretched… & stretched a little bit more until it is at maximum tension.

It’s at precisely this moment that you’ll be looking into the eyes of your loved ones who are on the stage. They will be playing the role of Launch Controllers & they will be the ones firing you skywards with the simple press of a button.

As you heart starts pounding the countdown clock starts ticking. Is that an ever-so-slightly evil smile on their face as they stand there hand poised over the button? Whilst this isn’t Gorbachev or Reagan from the Cold War days the launch controllers do have the power & pressing the button will have consequences
- namely you flying upwards leaving nothing but your screams behind!

So take one last look at your friends & family on the stage & 3 2 1 blast off! Like an overstretched rubber band you’ll ping into the stratosphere (ok not actually that far but it feels like it!). Those very same loved ones will now be gawping at you wide-eyed & mouths open craning their necks to see how you look attached to a bungee cable at 120ft off the ground.

After your aerial exploits you can expect a hearty round of applause from those on the launch stage as you get winched back down to earth. After all it’s not every day you get to travel like a bullet through the air & it’s certainly not every day that your friends & family get to send you up there!

Buy your voucher for The Launch & get ready to go high in the air with up to four of your closest friends or family invited to undertake the task of launching you if you dare!












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Slalom that 18-tonne lorry around the specially laid-out trucker track! ...

Warner Bros. HP studio tour & tea at Shendish Manor hotel afterwards ...

Visit the actual HP studios & enjoy a lunch for two too. Perfect Warner Bros. day out for all Harry Potter fans. ...

Thursday & Friday steam train lunch trips on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire ...