Tag Archive 'Global Positioning System'

Cycling again after 40 years……

Its been in my head for a long time to cycle down through France, in fact checking my Quicken I can see that I treated myself to a new bike for £669.98p for my birthday 10 years ago! A bike that has not been used for over 9 years ……
Finally I’ve decided to bike to [...]

Boarding in Les Gets

Today has been glorious here in Les Gets, bright sunshine helping to offset the -8 degrees temperatures.
I took my board out for a 28mile ride going up 13 lifts totalling about 3 vertical miles of ascent Top speed recorded on the GPS was 34.7mph. I felt really comfortable motoring along, either I’m getting [...]

Happy New Year and our first walk

A Happy New Year to all my readers Good to see that you are a person of excellent taste and recognise a real quality blog!
After spending the first 12 hours of the new year in bed with Sally we decided a walk was in order. Neither of us could face the annual new [...]

EverTrail on the iPhone

Another day another new iPhone application. Today it was EveryTrail.
In the past I used my Garmin Etrex as a GPS and a regular camera, by fiddling with LoadMyTracks, HoudahGeo and Flickr I managed to upload my walks to Everytrail. Today it all changed
Here is my test walk around Cambridge with the iPhone:-

cambridge station [...]