Arbo Valley Travel and Tours

Southampton Boat show hosts Europe’s largest purpose-built show marina, displaying an array of sailing craft. Climb aboard science ship Callista or take a look around the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s Lord Nelson. Also, children can go boating for free with the RYA’s OnBoard programme. You can even try a boat for free, or take in the MCA and RNLI’s Search & Rescue demonstrations. And don’t miss the Record Breaker Stage Show to help the PSP Southampton Boat Show break into the Guinness Book of Records.

120,000 are expected to flock to the Boat Show this year. At Mayflower Park, the PSP Southampton Boat Show is a fantastic experience for everyone with a passion for boats. Whether you want to see what’s new, discover a hobby or see the very best, and most up to date marine design and technology.

The PSP Southampton Boat show hosts Europe’s largest purpose-built show marina, displaying an array of sailing craft. Climb aboard science ship Callista or take a look around the Jubilee Sailing Trust’s Lord Nelson. Also, children can go boating for free with the RYA’s OnBoard programme. You can even try a boat for free, or take in the MCA and RNLI’s Search & Rescue demonstrations. And don’t miss the Record Breaker Stage Show to help the PSP Southampton Boat Show break into the Guinness Book of Records.

This year, the aim is to break records with the help of show visitors. On the Record Breaker Stage Show in Solent Park, record breakers will bid to sail around the world in 20 minutes!

Take part in the daily Semaphore record breaking attempt. Used by NATO’s land and sea forces, Semaphore was developed 200 years ago – way before mobile phones and the Internet! In its time, Semaphore was a revolutionary communication system – as popular as texting! Semaphore is a way of spelling out words by changing the position of a pair of hand-held flags indicating a letter of the alphabet. On the Record Breaker Stage Show you will be given your own flags to use so you can help to set a new Semaphore sending record.

The Green Blue is an initiative of the British Marine Federation and Royal Yachting Association. It’s an environment programme working with boat users, sailing clubs, training centres and marine businesses to raise awareness of the impact of recreational boating on our coastal and inland waters.

At the Boat Show this year you can see sailing legends Dee Caffari and Mike Golding present prizes to the winners of the photography competition. The competition encourages sailors to capture moments that represent boating and the environment under three categories, The Good, The Bad and The Funny.

Those in the boating businesses can learn about making cost savings whilst improving their environmental performance at the Marine Toolkit workshops.

A costume party is a fun way to put kids and adults in the right spirit for the holiday season. If you are not holding a costume party yourself, you might have been invited to one. Though costume parties are fun, it is something of a challenge to innovate new Christmas costumes. Kids are happy enough with pretty angel and Father Christmas costumes; jaded adults may need something more to perk them up and get them enthused about the party.

 

Easy Costume Ideas

If you plan to put together Christmas costumes for you and your family, you need to get hold of the right supplies. Sometimes, mixing and matching clothes and accessories can help you get the right look. For example, a white gown with a silver belt can make you look as elegant or chic an angel as any. If you cannot find accessories like a harp or wings, there are costume stores to help you. If you plan to dress your kids in Christmas costumes, be sure to involve them in the dress designing process – you will be amazed at the ideas they can come up with, and of course, it will be a fun activity for the entire family.

 

Buy Them Online

If you don’t have the time, resources, or skills to put together your own costume, the internet is where you turn to for help. The Santa suit is of course, de rigueur, as are the angels. You can dress as one of the assistants from Lapland – either the elves or Eskimos. There are also costumes available for women who want to dress as Mrs. Kris Cringle. Other popular Christmas figures are the Three Wise Men, the Shepherd, Mary, Scrooge and his three ghosts, and the reindeer as well.

 

Halloween Costumes

Apart from the holiday season, costume ideas are in great demand around Halloween. Halloween is the time you can really let your hair down and enjoy being someone you idealized as a kid or fantasized about emulating as a teen. Halloween party costumes can be flamboyant, saucy, sober, funny, feminine, macho, or scary, depending on what your preferences are. Dress well and have fun!