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A rest day and 14 days on The South West Coast Path
Today I’m taking a rest day in the pleasant town of St Ives, enjoying the hospitality of the owner of Cornerways, Tim after first rescuing him from paying a fortune for a .mobi url!! After our little drinks session last night I couldn’t face a mega breakfast (tomorrow will be different) so today it was…
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Cracking onto Crackington Haven only 495 miles to go.
495 miles to go on The South West Coast Path. Firstly many thanks to all the new visitors that came from this tweet: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/swcoastpath/status/192577773414518785″] and also many thanks to Betty & Chris for the lovely email sent after I met them in the woods atop Clovelly Today started of very miserable & wet (both…
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Leave only footprints
One of my mottoes when travelling has been: Leave only footprints Take only memories So whilst walking across Woolacombe beach as part of my South West Coast Path trip I couldn’t resist taking the above photo. In fact one of my ambitions in 2000 was to walk around the coast of the UK as far…
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Geoff’s Weather Station
Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the…
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A pensive sally
Starting to get concerned about walking 300miles in temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade! There is a good write up from some who did The Lycian Way earlier this year here http://bit.ly/qWhrOV I’ve ‘borrowed’ their GPS trail and put it in the Gaia GPS iPhone app and also on my etrex unit! Let’s see ho often…
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Swimming Season over
Yesterday was the final day of the Jesus Green pool swimming season 🙁 with my use of the iPhone Daily Data Tracker application I know that I swam 69 times since the opening day on the 14th May. In the 69 visits I swam a grand total of 35.78 miles ( 630 lengths), I didn’t…
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Oliver Jones
Congratulations to Renata & Steve and a warm welcome to my third Grandchild 🙂 Oliver Jones born at 12.03pm on Sunday 4th September weighing in at 3.52Kg (7.7lbs). And the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
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Shortcut on the GR10
Tonight I christen my new birthday sleeping mat from Sally The tent is safely pitched in the garden of Yann Cornic at his gite in Saint Lizier gite in Saint Lizier Last night I was sharing a room with Michael and Cherie? In the slightly hippy gite at Esbints learning about sheep dogs and farming…
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Rambling, rain & recked
Having walked 51 miles in the past three days and with over 18,000 feet of ascent and descent on the GR10. Last nights storms & heavy rain this morning gave me a good reason to spend an idle day here in the luxury of La mason du Valier 🙂 Yesterdays highlight was been only feet…
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Thick cloud on the GR10
Today I recommence my GR10 walk from the Atlantic to The Mediterrean along The Pyrenees. I stopped halfway in Luchon 4 years ago in freezing cloud & very wet! Today is not looking so good either. It should be 11 hours to get to Fos reaching 2193metres above Luchon (650metres). Now for breakfast…. Evening update!…