travel blog
-
Digital Thermometer Instructions
Finding it difficult to take my body temperature tests twice a day, for the14 days I’m in quarantine, with the digital thermometer supplied by the ASQ Legacy Hotel in Bangkok. I thought I would work out some instructions. None were supplied and I have led such a sheltered life. I have never needed to take…
-
Whaley Bridge 147 years of floods!
Interesting to find a couple of old reports on ‘freak weather’ in Whaley Bridge 147 years ago. Whaley Bridge is mentioned twice in the flood chronologies for events in June 1872 and July 1881: On 19th [June 1872] the Goyt was 12 to 14 feet above its normal level. At Whaley Bridge houses near the…
-
Geoff’s cycling map of the last 7 years
A lovely heatmap of my 800 cycling trips totalling over 40,000 miles since I joined Strava in July 2012 Clicking the map should let you zoom up and around.
-
A day exploring Coimbra
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 Following a previous comment on this blog from my friend and former wealth creator Pete. I decided to visit Coimbra the site of Portugals oldest university founded in 1290, Not Europes which is Bologna in Italy founded in 1088, btw Cambridge is 1209. I decided, thankfully, to leave the bike in…
-
Where’s Geoff?
For my latest position click here. Note that the blue dots are 10 minutes apart so you can see the speed I’m moving by their spacing 🙂
-
Made it to Nottingham walking from London
Wow, it’s been 140 days since my last update and those shiny new shoes in my last post are now worn out and replaced with the identical model but different colour! The other items have all survived. I did make it to Nottingham on the canals, all on lovely paths apart from the section when…
-
Grand Union canal hike – Milton Keynes to Blisworth
Tuesday 16 June 2015 Yesterday I had a shopping splurge day at Open Air in Cambridge 🙂 I bought myself some new Salomon Xa Pro 3D trainers with added Superfeet carbon insoles & Darn Tough socks. I also bought a new Osprey Exos 38 lightweight framed rucsac and a Pack-It toiletries bag. So after spending…
-
Grand Union Canal hike – Tring to Milton Keynes
Friday 12 June After a not much better sleep that in my tent 🙁 but at least with clean clothes & body I tucked into a breakfast of Brixham kippers, marmalade, toast and followed by fruit. George the albino peacock provided a fine display of plumage outside on the lawn. Euan was waiting for me in reception,…
-
Grand Union Canal hike -Watford to Tring
Thursday 11th June I woke up at 5.30 after nearly 7 hours in the tent, slept better than I had hoped but Fitbit told me a different story of being awake 3 times for 12 mins and restless 14 times for 35 mins 🙁 A perfect night for camping though. I was on my way…
-
Greenford to Watford on the Grand Union towpath.
Nephew Phillip kindly dropped me back outside The Black Horse in Greenford at 9.30am ready for the first full day of walking along The Grand Union canal. Last night he cleaned up his 24 or so entries in my address book 🙂 and maybe found out why his son Marcus embeds himself into my Google photo albums…