travel blog
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Rorschach to Ellikon – Swimming differently
Today was yet another scorcher, last nights lightning made no difference. I did 64 miles in just over 6 hours making it 10mph! Some of the places I went through were simply unbelievable eg Stein am Rhein a real postcard town! Its pretty amazing to see folks been carried along in the current at 6mph,…
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Zizers to Rorschach
As The Sun would say – Phew what a scorcher! The temperature was well into the thirties today, so just as well I started at 6am to get all the hills out of the way before 8am. I had an excellent section along The Rhine embankment with the wind behind me, amazing to see inline…
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Day 1 Les Gets to Martigny then to Andermatt on the train
With much trepidation and a loaded up bike I left my apartment in Les Gets at dawn break (06.30) to try and beat the high temperatures (30 deg) today. I made it to Evian by 8.30 getting frozen in the process! as its mainly downhill in a sun shaded valley. I soon warmed up on…
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Biking with Bikely
Today whilst researching my upcoming bike ride down the length of The Rhine I came across the website Bikely, this amazingly allows you to trace over Google Maps and generate gpx files that my Garmin understands. I can thus plan the whole 1000mile route and let the Garmin Etrex behave like a TomTom device to…
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Standon circular walk
Today’s walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team was a circular walk starting from Standon and then heading over to Much Hadham. Christine ably led the walk and 10 of us set off on the hottest day of the year so far! Mud rain & snow were but distant memories 🙂 Here is the…
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The Thames Path
After 10 days of walking I completed The Thames Path from its rural source close to Cirencester and its 180+ mile twisty route to the Thames Barrier. The route encompasses a lot of famous place names associated with Royalty and the English upper classes in fact it could be a tour of them from The…
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Geoff’s travelling gadget bag!
I spent tonight shortening all my USB cables so that my electronics can pack away neatly. In the past I have carried a rats nest of cables & Power Supplies with me. The result of tonight’s endeavours is shown above. It’s now below 2Kg including the Asus power supply, Garmin GPS, Olympus uTough camera, Eee…
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iPhone on T-mobile in the UK
If your iPhone contract has run out (or about to) then you can ask O2 to ‘unlock’ your iPhone. Once unlocked you can get a PAC code and transfer your existing number to T-Mobile. Advantages The £10 a month unlimited internet and texts for life is a great deal for anyone, like me, who doesn’t…
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Orwell to Wimpole circular walk
The A team were back in action today! Rita ably led the Cambridge Rambling Club on its first walk of 2010. A 14mile circular walk starting from Orwell then across the fields to Whaddon, Dyers Green and lunch at Wimpole Hall. In the afternoon we scaled the heights across to Eversden and on down the…