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Year: 2011
I have spent the last 11 weeks working in Jersey. For our international readers, this is a small island (9 miles x 5 miles) closer to France than England. Jersey isn’t actually part of the UK, but it is a “possession of the Crown”. In other words, Jersey has its own tax and legislation, but …
On Friday I was, in a very minor way, part of the support team for “Fast Howard” (my name for a member of my running club), who was running the whole of Hadrian’s Wall in a day – all 84 miles of it. To complete this feat he had carefully planned every detail, including a …
The Arete Welsh meet was based in Helyg and despite the Met Office promise of monsoon rains four more members joined me on Friday night...
A conference in Catalonia gives me the chance to visit an underground salt mine...
Richard is ‘working’ in a posh castle near Barcelona at the moment, so I’ve spent the weekend visiting friends and relatives and errr… running. On Saturday our family came together to give my grandfather the final hardcopies of his memoirs. This might not be the last you hear about this because he tells us that …
In another of our increasingly vain attempts to prepare for the Rab MM later this year Laetitia and I went for another run today...
I stumbled upon (thanks to Twitter) this picture of 'European detail map of Flickr and Twitter locations' and thought "wow", and "pretty", so I thought I'd share my discovery...
This blog was originally imagined as way to keep in contact with friends who were thinking of leaving the UK, however, these days I use it for so much more than simply sharing adventures - in fact I use it quite literally as the founding idea of why blogs were created; a log (of whatever) on the web, a web-log...
