Take time out for a family trip to Berry Head VHF Omnirange navigational beacon on the south coast of England, which I must have traversed once or twice in the cruise, though I cannot recall headed for where... maybe the Canaries via the longer route?
But if you plan a family trip of the sort yourself, recommend looking no further than the Berry Head Hotel, just a walk from the beacon and the sort of place that Agatha Christie (who lived locally) might have used to set a murder. On a summer evening, pink gin on hand, there is no better place on Earth.
Suitably restored, we could set off early for the expedition to the navigation beacon itself, which didn't disappoint: set in a nature reserve and in a clearing among the trees, there is even a nameplate containing a brief description for the benefit of the tourists being irradiated.
Likely combined with a DME and clearly a doppler version, I was able to expound on the benefits of solid state ground-based aids as against the rotating variety... which my son will surely be keen to share with school-friends at the soonest opportunity.
One tho' for the family album, or rotating sequence of images on the breakfast bar!
Ed. The Berry Head Hotel was built in 1847 as a residence for clergy, now likely to occupy an Airbnb instead. It was here the hymn 'Abide with me' was written, sung by crowds at FA Cup finals for decades. In view of the fact no-one remembers the words it is lately sung by celebs, although the FA plan to replace it altogether with The Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up'.
