Monday, August 25, 2008 Fancy a Nut Cutlet Sir? Merlin Entertainments Group’s Nick Varney on Food, Satisfaction and Dungeons Revealing interview with Merlin Entertainments Group’s CEO Nick Varney in this morning’s Times, in which he talks healthy food, pricing and customer satisfaction. He also explains why Merlin’s “naughty child” fell foul of the church...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Abandoned Waterparks , the World’s Best Roller Coasters and One Mighty Big Fish tank

This weekend’s Sunday Telegraph carried a neat piece about the roller coaster industry, journalist Rose George travelling to Alton Towers to experience the theme park's famed Nemesis coaster and over to Switzerland (the offices are in  “…Monthey, a small, less than beautiful city on a plain between dramatic Alps and more dramatic Alps”) to meet Walter Bolliger of Bolliger & Mabillard ......View more

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Amusement Parks: Genesis of Nemesis A quintessentially British couple of days, one spent at a Dorset garden party the second sitting in the rain at a kid’s sports day. Met one of the men behind Nemesis (my favourite coaster) and an old friend from India…...View more

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Amusement parks: A Winter's Tale - Alton Towers and Singing Chickens A weekend, mid-Winter in the UK's premier theme park....View more

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