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Article: Scope for adventure; How do you keep an adult and a 10-year-old happy on the same weekend break to France? James Bedding has the answer.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2002
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Byline: JAMES BEDDING
THE 2CV pulled out in front of us with the urgency of a snail. Nothing unusual about that on French roads.
Except that we were hurtling through the narrow, twisting streets of a medieval village in a Formula 3 racing car. I lurched forward in my seat, slammed into my seat brace and felt the whiplash in my neck.
"That was wicked," said my 10-year-old son, Marco. "Why can't you drive like that?"
The crash on the tennis ourt sized screen came courtesy of the technology of cinEma dynamique - each of the 96 pairs of seats are
mounted on six computer-controlled hydraulic jacks which shake, swing and flip you ...