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Journeys on Foot: December 2011
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Journeys on Foot allows me to share with others the walks I have devised (or occasionally copied) and walked with family and friends. Plus the occasional rant, kit chat or comment on anything. Friday, 23 December 2011. I hope everyone who reads this has or has had a Great Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. Not another Review of the Osprey Stratos36. To take the compression straps first, these worked really well in compacting the bag and shaping it when lightly loaded, but whenever I needed to get anyth...
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New Zealand | Writes of Way
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The Small Blacks’ tour of New Zealand. The Small Blacks on 90 Mile Beach. Fellow Brightonian cyclologist and NZ veteran Paul Robinson had warned us about NZ’s damp tendencies so we set about kitting our bikes out with waterproof panniers and bar-bags and swaddling ourselves in reams of black gore-tex. In the event, the weather behaved as badly as expected ensuring that we spent a lot of time in our waterproofs, which, given that neither of us is of a great stature, gave rise to our self-awarded. Small wi...
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A fine few days on the Isle of Mull | Writes of Way
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A fine few days on the Isle of Mull. September 1, 2014. A couple of weekends back we set off for a few days walking on Mull. We were lucky with the weather and managed to do all the walks we hoped to combined with a night at Tomsleibhe bothy and another camped on the shore of Loch na Keal. The experience was book-ended by Calmac fish and chips making this a near perfect weekend excursion. While at the southern end of the Dun da Ghoaithe ridge the lower top of Mainnir nam Fiadh dominates the view:. In tru...
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Constraint payments in Scotland soar by 1,300% | My Wild Camping
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Constraint payments in Scotland soar by 1,300%. Don’t you just love wind farms! From the Times, 11th May 2014. PAYMENTS to green energy firms under a controversial government scheme that compensates them for wasted power have soared by more than 1,300%. About 35m has been awarded since the start. Of the financial year to the owners of 21 renewables projects all of them in Scotland because Britain’s power network could not cope with the energy they produced. This entry was posted in windfarmaction. Notify...
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Hebridean Bicycle Odyssey | Writes of Way
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Bàgh Thalaman, Barra. However, he was currently away at sea for some days, boo! Though his mate the ambulance driver would probably be opening up for him in the next half an hour, hooray! Never in all my life have I had such an unexpected and triumphant result from my cack-handed attempts at bicycle repairs. 8216;Erm, those are rather impressive knots’, I ventured ,’I can see you’ve had some practice’. Cyclists boarding the Barra-Eriskay ferry. In 1941, the S.S. As made in to a hugely successful and much...
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December 18, 2014. Along with autumn, spring and summer, winter is one of my favourite seasons. Of late in the WoW household we’ve been hunkered down, hatching plots and not getting out as much as we’d like. However, the opportunity arose and was swiftly taken to decamp to Islay for a short week (one up from a long weekend) and we’ve been out and about on the Queen of the Hebrides’ Atlantic coast enjoying the bracing weather. Here’s a few more pics:. November 5, 2014. 8230;and it’s goodbye to care! A cou...
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The mighty Paps of Jura | Writes of Way
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The mighty Paps of Jura. November 4, 2013. I’ve always found the lack of an apostrophe slightly remiss. December 3, 2013 at 6:25 pm. I avert my eyes every time I pass it, Pete😉. Although IMO missing apostrophe’s are preferable to apostrophe’s which appear where they don’t belong! December 3, 2013 at 7:21 pm. Hello Dave, you wouldn’t want any stray apostrophes on the Pap’s Walk, for example…. December 4, 2013 at 12:38 pm. February 6, 2014 at 11:44 pm. Good to see the new book is out! You are commenting u...
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A short, sweet sojourn on the wee Garvellachs | Writes of Way
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A short, sweet sojourn on the wee Garvellachs. May 5, 2013. A few days back it was TLF’s birthday. What do you get for the woman who has everything (including a handsome Labrador and a top of the range bald middle-aged husband)? Well, get this, I bought her a chain of small islands in the Southern Hebrides known as the Garvellachs. Generous, huh? We thought it was exciting enough then, but on this windy morning it was verging on the positively scary. At a speed of 10 knots, we were standing stillR...
