Tag: scotland
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This repost was published in hindsight, on 12 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
Since I last posted, I've been fairly busy, one way and another. First, Dan and I travelled up to Preston where I was forced to allow that it isn't a complete pit after all because it does have a couple … -
Scotland Etc.
A quick summary of a holiday (and a series of associated trips on the side) that Ruth and I took a fortnight ago (yeah; I've been busy). Ruth has already written a little about the trip. I'd hoped to blog "on the move", but a combination of low signal and low energy after a day …
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Ski Time
Claire and I are off to Scotland for a spot of skiing while there might still be some snow left. We're leaving tonight and we're back at the weekend (probably on Sunday). In the meantime, we're leaving The Cottage, Mario, and Luigi in the capable hands of Matt (Hat variety). We'll be in Preston Wednesday …
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Le Grande Tour
Firstly; thanks to everybody who tested my kitten-based authentication system yesterday. It seems to be working quite well.
Claire and I are undergoing a grand tour of the United Kingdom this coming week, as follows:
This afternoon, we're driving (in Claire's car) to Cardiff. Coincidentally, Gareth, who was visiting us this weekend to help me … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
After the success of yesterday's run, today I was exhausted. The weather was horrific, and we found ourselves having to pedal hard to get DOWNhill.
On my account, we had to take several extended breaks, which had us arrive in Stornoway, isle of Lewis, half an hour outside of our target window. I just collasped into … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
You get to your third day of an exercise that your body isn't used to and you hit the wall: the point at which your body runs out of all it's immediate sources of energy and has to start the complicated chemical reactions that break down fat into sugars.
You know this has happened because suddenly … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Farmer at Berneray warned us that Stornoway, where we'd be tomorrow night, was a bed of sin, with young people drinking at taking drugs (this is a town barely larger, and more isolated, than Aberystwyth). He'd lived his entire life on this tiny island, and knew everybody on it, and it therefore stood to reason …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Just wrote a fantastic piece about the islands we visited on our second day's cycling only to have this shitty device eat it. So here's a summarry:
Barra - small. Cycled over mountain, took ferry North.
Eriskay - tiny fishing community.
South Uist - long, flat, full of highland cattle and sheep. Heavily Catholic.
Benbecula - picturesque.
North Uist - … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mission
The keyboard on this tacky little GPRS device is crap, and I just lost this entire entry to bad user interface design (if you press the biggest button on the device, it throws it all away):
My dad and I drove to Glasgow, arriving this morning at about 2am. Then, up at 8am for the first … -
And I’m Off
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
[additional fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Off to Scotland, that is, where I'll be spending a long weekend cycling and island-hopping. I've got a brief stop in Preston … -
Hot Chocolate
AltDan drinks a hot chocolate on Cairngorm, Aviemore