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Pretty gloomy news
Mortality rates are still rising in the UK – and everyone is ignoring how many more people are dying. Interestingly my age group is still doing OK as you can see from the above chart. As the article says: Warnings for the future Something is going very wrong. And whatever is going on is unique…
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A blast from my past!
Whilst searching on the AllTrails website I discovered this little blast from the past which I uploaded to EveryTrail in 2008. The original post came about when I discovered my 1956 YHA card. I then did a plot connecting up the Youth Hostels as much I could remember from when I was 8 years old.…
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Falling of a cliff!
Interesting to see the latest number of UK House sales plotted by Dougal as you can see quite a cliff edge. In May 2019 there were only 25,335 sales the previous lowest was in Feb 2009 with 28,507 sales. So this is the lowest monthly sales figures in at least 24 years! Will be very…
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Elevate your Strava
Using the excellent Chrome Elevate for Strava extension I have now produced this pretty chart. As you can see my cycling distance is now down 1,537 miles from the same date in 2018, meaning if I’m to do the same mileage as last year I have to now pedal 6,374 miles in the remaining 188…
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Overview of our Camino Invierno walk
Finally 12 days after returning home from my Camino Invierno walk I’ve found a method of displaying all the sections where we walked on a zoomable embedded map 🙂 and amazingly also clearly showing all the bits we missed either intentionally or by error 🙁 The solution I found was to use the -umaps website…
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Camino Invierno – A La Brada to Monforte de Lemos
Another excellent walking day, I’m really getting into my stride now 🙂 The distance between Quiroga and Monforte de Lemos on the Camino Invierno is given as 36km which is a bit far for us, although a first for us on this Camino is we met a fellow walker from Austria who was doing the…
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Camino Invierno – O Barco de Valdeorras to Quiroga
Once again as the Camino Walks it would have been 46 km from O Barco de Valdeorras to our lodgings outside Quiroga our distance is governed by the lack of accommodation on the route especially for 3 pilgrims requiring single rooms, although it has to be said we haven’t walked past very many, if any…
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Camino Invierno – Borrenes to O Barco de Valdeorras
The distance via Camino between Borrenes and O Barco de Valdeorras according to my route is 36km so a pretty lengthy one! Fortunately our host, Saturno, offered to drive us all in his 4WD to the Mirador de Orellan and then drop us of in the car park outside Las Medulas thus saving 7km walking…
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A day in Ponferrada & Villafranca
Shock horror I at to be woken up by Colin calling me at 8.42 this morning 🙁 I think the early start and travelling all day really shattered me and with the room in total darkness I just failed to wake up. After the €4 hotel breakfast, we decided to drive over to Villafranca for…
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Return to Moscow
Sunday 29th July 2018 After the nights shenanigans I woke up feeling really ill which was a pity as the lake looked really inviting. However, I decided to leave Ostashkov and get back to big city life and all its niceties in Moscow. Ostashkov is definitely up and coming and I’m sure the derelict properties…