Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
For once the weather forecast was correct – Sunday turned out dry with a little sunshine peaking between the clouds! We’d arranged to meet up with Andy, Sabiene, Ian and Anna (oh, and Kelda) to catch up on all the news after the Xmas and New Year holidays… We chose the classic scramble up Jack’s …
We’ve been round the awesome North Face Trail a few times now. It’s a little technical in places but is always a fantastic purpose made mountain bike trail! Perfect to shed more of those Xmas pounds. 😛 After all the snow earlier in the week, although mostly melted now, the track was very wet and …
The first post on the Sterling Adventures Blog was created two years ago on 28th December 2005. Although the web site itself was only launched in March 2006. So, a bit like the Queen, we have two birthdays – 28th December and 16th March. Whatever the exact date, back when the blog was conceived the …
The suspects! Flossie Carrington had it all – she was young and beautiful, she was the heiress to an American steel empire, and she was married to a handsome ex-Guards officer. But recently, the nation was shocked by the discovery of her body, stuffed under the seat of a first-class compartment on the Plymouth Express. …
Here's a Xmas present for all of the blog's "cat fans", cute or what!
The fiercest, cutest cat ever to terrorize your mouse pointer...
Laetitia went out shopping 😯 with her sisters today leaving me to get up to my own mischief! Silly me, I chose to go for a ride up Kentmere on my bike. It’s been raining cats & dogs and it’s pretty windy too. So, the combination of cold temperatures, being wet through and a fair …
We are lucky to be able to help out at the annual Kendal Mountain (Film) Festival. We don’t have difficult jobs – door staff checking people’s tickets and other easy stuff like that. But we do enjoy the event enormously and get a privileged opportunity to see all the movies etc. This year one of …
ISPs are short selling us (or at least hiding behind the term "up to")! Do you think you have an "up to" 2mbs broadband service from your ISP? Fact is, you probably don't...
It will probably have melted by the time you get to look 🙁 at this webcam from Place Balmat, but today there has been some fresh snow in Chamonix centre, and the forecast says there’ll be more overnight! Obviously it snows in Chamonix’s high mountains all year, but it gets quite exciting when the first …