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Muse in Antwerp, december last year.

The brilliant new single of the White Stripes : Icky Thump.

The guy at the right. That's me.

Hi, i'm Ben, living in Belgium. I'm reading the forum since more or less the beginning but i'm not a big poster. Today found an onride picture of me on my computer which you find here below (i'm the guy at the right). My sister and brother in law are in the middle. Together with them, i have a travel agency which has a separate themeparksection. If you ever want to visit european themeparks, plse do visit our website (see sig) [/img]

That must have been the Looping Star in Bobbejaanland or Tornado in Walibi Belgium. I don't remember which one i rode first.

I'm not following lot of tv series. The only one i follow at the moment is Lost.

Samson - Regina Spektor

I've only been to the 3 parks once, on weekdays beginning of May in 2005. None of the rides in the 3 parks had any rows except Rita which had just opened and suffered breakdowns often that day. June is 'dangerous' for schooltrip-crowds i think. If you have to choose betwn June and September, i would go for the second half of September.

Black Mamba @ Phantasialand last Monday

Are you visiting any more parks in the benelux after yr Spain and Italy trip ? Do you have fixed the dates already ? I would love meeting you guys again. Benny (you met in Walibi Belgium 2 years ago) P.s. i'm really looking forward riding this new woodie !

Gouderix was upto September last year by far the roughest coaster i've ever been on. Until i rode coaster express in Parque Warner, Madrid : beautiful layout, small drop to the lift hill, lift hill it self and first drop were still ok but then the hurting began. It was just terrible and this is one of the few coasters i really did not enjoy and i was glad the train entered the station again. Before i rode Coaster express, i heard already that CE could be painful but it the pain was much worser than i could imagine.

Great There is one at not even 2 hours driving from where i live. 1159 meters long, 110 meters height difference, 115 km/hour... Next summer i will definately go there.

Take a look at following short clip i found on the net download clip (rs.com -- choose free download - wait a minute - enter code - download) Does anybody know where this attraction can be found ?

My top 3 is : 1. Nemesis 2. Black Mamba 3. Duelling dragons

^can't see them either.

Very nice and interesting pics AT is one of my favorite european parcs and i found it very interesting to look at pics of a non operating AT.

Here a nice simulation of vertigo : Source: john-wb - www.walibi.org

it wasn't a good coaster anymore, but still it's a little sad as this was the first looping coaster i've been on (end of the seventies) I'm feeling old all at once

Sören, perhaps yr parents are doing difficult because they don't want to see you leave for 1 year (or who knows for a much longer period), just because they love you so much. Remember i told you that a few years ago i also had to decide to move to the US. I can tell you that especially my wife's parents were really unhappy about this possible move and i remember that during that decision period, every time i saw them they tried to talk that out of my head with all kind of stuff they heard or read somewhere. In the end, them doing so did not really have an influence on my decision, although i realised that it would have been very very hard to see their daughther and granddaughter leave to the US. Benny

anybody knows where i can find the full top 50 list ?

only discovered this tread now. I think it's great Sören, that you follow yr dream. I know that's a huge but also exciting decision to take as a few years ago, i was close to moving to the US to work as an expat for the company i work for. At that time i was already married and we had 1 daughter of 2, which only made the decision even more difficult (although my wife was very much in favor about moving to the US). Eventually i've chosen to stay here because not every condition i had, was fulfilled (most important one was that i would not know on beforehand where in the states i would end up) and also my boss here convinced me to stay. Looking back now, i don't really regret my decision but sometimes i wonder where i would be if i would have moved to the states. Anyway, i'm really glad for you that you have decided to move to Florida and really really hope that everying will work out fine for you out there. Benny

Dragon Kahn - Port aventura

Goliath in Walibi World again (last Saturday)

it will be the second time that i'm coming to the US. Last year i visited the orlando themeparks. We have considered fitting in sfnj & sfne but it will already be quite a tight schedule, so will not be able to make it to those 2 parks. That will be for my 3rd visit to the US

i'm looking forward to our usa trip which we have planned for June next year. We are going to visit : geauga lake, cedar point, pki, hershey, kennywood, dorney, sfga (possibly also knoebels). In europe will visit most likely following parks again : phantasialand (black mamba), efteling (vliegende hollander), bobbejaanland, walibi belgium + world, Dlp + wds, plopsaland (new mack supersplash + skyflyer), moviepark germany, ....