Unusual modes of transport you have used.

[Elpenor]

The ones at Classic Wings in Duxford are £2.8k, I used to volunteer for them, that's when I sat in the Spitfire but no freebies were forthcoming. I did get a couple of rides in the Rapide though.

I saw one over Beachy Head last month when I was there. Just looked up the cost of the Beachy Head experience and that’s £4700!!

 

[spitfire]

I'd be interested to hear DownwardDog 's list... Or Lancman

 

[planetgeli]

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VIP version.

Pah. Hello Kitty tuk-tuk, Malacca



Funicular Montserrat, Barcelona

That cable car in Derbyshire.

 

[Silas Loom]

Are those the unlicensed minicabs that TfL warn about? I can see why the rights owners would be upset.

 

[8ball]

Are funiculars that unusual?

Electric unicycle, small group of drunk student girls and double decker car for me.

 

[8ball]

I don't think I've been on a suspended monorail but I have been on the Bangkok one, thinking about it. It's about the only way you can avoid the gridlock some days.

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I went on something that imagine looked a bit like that when I was in Denmark.

 

[planetgeli]

Are funiculars that unusual?

Not really, someone seems to mention them every second post. But nobody had mentioned Montserrat, and that has to be one of the best. Also done the one in Hastings and the one in Prague.

 

[planetgeli]

Dug out canoe down the Amazon. Canoes also common on here but that was a bit different and a bit terrifying.

Back of Toyota pick-ups in many places.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Are funiculars that unusual?

There are five in Genoa alone.

 

[planetgeli]

Kuranda skyrail (and scenic railway but trains don't count I guess).

 

[A380]

I don't think I've been on a suspended monorail but I have been on the Bangkok one, thinking about it. It's about the only way you can avoid the gridlock some days.

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That’s better than the one at Beuaulieu and the one at Epcot. Which I’ve been on. Plus a pedal powered one at Wickstead park, which I have peddled…

 

[A380]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and further to previous, i have remembered that i have travelled on a milk float - must have been not that long after mum-tat broke her leg when i was about 6, milkman saw that she was struggling walking back from the nearest shops and gave us a lift up the road

 

[PTK]

Funicular railway.
Hot air balloon.
Elephant.

I've never been on a hovercraft but would like to.

You?

I went on a hovercraft from the Isle of Wight to the mainland and back when I was a child on holiday in the 1960s. It was, I think, an SRN6, but it could have been an SRN5. I regret never having crossed the Channel on an SRN4 car ferry hovercraft.

There was a restaurant/cafe on the Isle of Wight where you could sit on the terrace and watch the shipping, and experimental hovercraft going to and from the place that they were designed.