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If at first you don't succeed try, try and try and try again... and finally your impressive perseverance pays off! Congratulations DG!
Glad you are happier this time than in 1999.

Fantastic coverage from the Stargazing Live team, I thought (available on iPlayer for those who are interested and missed it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h4g8).

For as near certain as you'll ever get, one of their experts was recommending Luxor in Egypt in the summer of 2027 - a three hour total eclipse, with over 6 minutes of totality.
The lampposts came on in London, but there was no sign of where the sun could possibly be...
Glad you finally got to see the whole(ish) thing DG.

For me the abiding memory of the 1999 one from London apart from a very brief break in the cloud was the amazing scent that filled the garden as we neared the height of the eclipse as the Brugmansia that usually release their scent at dusk were fooled into an early release....

This time my timelapse nicely shows it getting greyer and then brighter but no hint as to where the sun (and moon) might have been behind the gloom.
Excellent effort - glad to see that your planning paid off!

So was Birmingham as far north as you'd been planning to go, or could your ticket have taken you further?
Really pleased for you. I'm glad the planning paid off.
Other than booking the day off, the 'planning' only started 25 hours before the eclipse began, when I bought a rail ticket to somewhere that looked like it might possibly maybe be sunny. Thankfully correctly :)
you should have been in London, all the streetlights came on
I'm on holiday in the Faroe Islands and the eclipse was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
Well done, Karen! The Faroes or Svalbard looked the best. I did some research on flights and hotels last year but it all looked too difficult and/or too expensive.

Now, the US in August 2017 looks *much* more manageable. http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com
Looking even further ahead, a trip Down Under in 2028 could be timed to coincide with a total eclipse on July 22. It will sweep across the whole country from NW to SE, ending in Sydney.










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