Travel Blogging
Posts on my experiences in travelling
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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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he Guardian, WordPress-and-the-web
Cyclists should check their home contents insurance and consider third party cover against collisions
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Remote blogging
Last night I tried to set up another Posterous account so I could post here. However, apparently you can only post to one site with each email address so no joy with that then, as I already use Posterous with geoffjones.net ! I’m now trying to use the iPhone wordpress app, which rather annoyingly just…
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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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iPad first post
Experimenting with the WordPress app on my new iPad. Beginning to love the iPad especially the HUGE Fonts available, in fact it’s rather weird going back to the iPhone! the iPad is ideal for us oldies with failing eyesight. A problem for new entrants is that you need a computer & iTunes account to get…
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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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A day in the woods with Cambridge Rambling club
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Club ‘A’ team ramble was led by Vera. 12 of us set off from Toft (well actually from Gresham Road, Cambridge). Twas a gorgeous sunny day with lots of blossom on the trees with cowslips and a few bluebells making their 2010 appearance. We wended our way from Toft through Great Eversden,…