'99 eclipse and millennium's eve

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I just wondered what everyone did / where they were for these 2 events? I know there's a debate on which year was the true millennium's eve, so just write down when you celebrated it. Aged 20/21 back then btw.

1999 eclipse for me: grandparents live near Torquay, Devon, and they said as far back as 1996 that I could stay at theirs. The weather on that day was dismal but I was in the totality path. We went up a local hill where there was a TV mast and watched day turn pitch black for 90 seconds. Street lamps turned on and the kids howled like wolves. The sun (or light rather) rose from the West instead of the usual East. So the eclipse event was 'alright' but holiday itself was my best. Spent 17 days in Devon in the end, including an outdoor pursuits week in Exmoor.

Millennium's eve (1999/2000): disappointment for for me. I was between uni semesters, always up for going out but couldn't find a group to join as my parents live in the middle of nowhere (didn't get broadband until 2004!) So it was just a low-key night in with the parents with a couple of their teacher friends and their baby. I had a BBC computer ticking away just to see what time/year its clock changed to at midnight and it went from 1999 back to 1981. Millennium bug lol.
 
For the eclipse I was, funnily enough, in Torquay on holiday :eek: Didn't get to see much due to the aforementioned crap weather, but it was eerie when it actually went dark.

For Millenium's Eve, I'd have been at home in Bishopthorpe, my parents watching Jool's Holland, and me just being excited that I was allowed up until midnight :D
 
eclipse probably stood outside my parents house...

milenium sat in my flatt playing need for speed porsche unleashed i think
 
For the eclipse I was at work and remember standing with several hundred people in the car park while watcing it. For the millenium I was at home with my wife. No great stories there I'm afraid.
 
riding the bmx towards town, remember looking up while riding but the fun part for me, was not really caring about it while everyone else stood still looking up..

i guess thats kind of a childish thing to have done, i was 18 though, didnt really care, doesnt happen that often, should have took pic's
 
I was in my parents back garden in Devon for the Eclipse, was a bit eerie all the birds started squawking.

Millennium was spent on Exmouth beach surrounded by thousands of people in fancy dress.
 
For the eclipse I was working on a building site in Bolton.

For millennium eve, I was in Vodka Revolution in Sheffield, it was the opening night.
 
For the eclipse I stood in my front garden with my dad and looked at it for a bit.

For the millenium we had a few families gathered in our house and had a party, watched the countdown etc on tv and then went out and let off some fireworks.
 
Can't remember the eclipse prolly back garden.

For Millenium was in an Irish bar somewhere in London ****** out my skull, stupidly we were doing shots to the countdown and best part of a bottles worth of whiskey in a short time didn't do me any favors.
 
Eclipse I was on a train with some mate to Barnsly Metrodome to go swimming at the ripe old age of 12.

For the Millenium I was at a crappy party in Batley :(
 
I think on 'The Millennium' I was grumbling a lot about idiots saying it was the dawning of the 21st Century, which I considered the ultimate in wilful ignorance (seeing as 1 Jan 2000 was the start of the twentieth century, and would last for a whole year). Oh man! I now realise that people are just idiots and the mass media caters mainly to them, and don't let it worry me as much.
 
had a good year in 99' , i remember going to America and San Francisco for the first time , was about 15 , and then later in the year went to Canada and was in Montreal to watch the eclipse, was at home for the millennium and had a big party.
 
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A few of us were in Devon then :-)

I've just wiki'd for the next total eclipse in the UK. Unfortunately, it won't be in our lifetimes. Source.

Wikipedia said:
23 September 2090
Total Solar Eclipse: the next total eclipse visible in the UK follows a track similar to that of 11 August 1999, but shifted slightly further north and occurring very near sunset. Maximum duration in Cornwall will be 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Same day and month as the eclipse of 23 September 1699.
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