From Autumn Sunshine
From Rab Mountain Marathon 2012
From Down to the Sea
From Langstrath
From The best days are never planned
From Bucovina
From Murderer!
From Cycling to Shropshire

Autumn Sunshine

Monday, 8th October 2012

Despite the wonderful autumn sunshine it was easy to tell that the weather has consisted of pretty much endless rain for the past several months - the cracks of the main wall of Trowbarrow Quarry were running with water!

Rab Mountain Marathon 2012

Sunday, 7th October 2012

This year the Rab Mountain Marathon started from Wooler in Northumberland. This event is ‘score’ format, meaning that you have 6 hours on day 1 and 5 hours on day 2 to locate as many controls as possible. The controls are worth varying numbers of points, and the largest point count wins, so tactics and …

Canary Islands

Wednesday, 3rd October 2012

This autumn's pre-winter trip was to the politically Spanish but geographically north African Canary Islands.

Down to the Sea

Monday, 1st October 2012

Six Barnsley diehards set off to Cornwall in less than perfect weather with a met office promise of worse to come.

Langstrath

Sunday, 30th September 2012

Whilst Elsie was enjoying her lovely lazy lie in and veg chilli…

The best days are never planned

Sunday, 30th September 2012

The weather forecast wasn’t great but I decided to go ahead with my planned trip to the Lakes with the most hardy of my friends, the others having bailed out.

Bucovina

Sunday, 30th September 2012

Bucovina is a territory in the North-Eastern part of Romania and it's famous for its painted monasteries that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

Murderer!

Sunday, 30th September 2012

Judit, my Hungarian colleague, who works now in Amsterdam is here in Bucharest on a project. During the week we work together and in the weekends we travel to explore the beauties of Romania.

Cycling to Shropshire

Sunday, 30th September 2012

We went to see friends in Newport, Shropshire yesterday. Richard deviated the journey to pick up his new car in Stoke, so I took the opportunity to cycle to Shropshire. The 43 mile journey wasn’t quite as quick as I’d hoped, partly because I went the wrong way, but mostly because there was a head …

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