My unholy man-love for Ewan McGregor has been well documented.
I remain unapologetic.
There's no judgement here on the blog.
Live and let live.
In addition to his many Hollywoodsville big-time movies, he traveled around the world on his motorcycle with his best buddy Charley and documented it in the National Geographic series -
Long Way Round.
It's a pretty awesome show if you get the chance to watch.
A couple years later he followed that up by riding his motorcycle from London to South Africa, again with best bud Charley, and this time, the lovely Missus Ewan joined for a part of the trip, looking absolutely charming in her brand new cycling gear and riding a "baby Beemer" 650 enduro bike.
Awesome.
Last night I stumbled onto a couple documentaries about World War II, hosted by Ewan and his brother Colin, who is a retired RAF pilot.
In the doc's they get to fly a Spitfire, the plane responsible for saving the English during the Battle of Britain and in the second documentary, Bomber Boys, they fly the last remaining Lancaster Bomber in England.
It's really remarkable.
They spend a lot of time with former pilots and crew of the Lancasters, who were tasked with taking the war to Germany, to incredible effect but with great cost.
Of the 125,000 men who flew those beautiful planes, 55,000 were killed in action.
Not very good odds in any contest.
If you get the chance, check it out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txy2q
http://youtu.be/JnzNJ-RXIi8
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