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The journal
Exactly one week ago I set of walking Offa’s Dyke on the English / Welsh border. I’ve been blessed with good weather so today I find myself in Hay on Wye with 139 miles walked, according my GPS and another 50.5 to do according to the Harvey Map I’m using. The scenery is magnificent heavily […]
Today finds me waking up in Cloud Hill, a late 60s architect designed house, lots of plywood beams and clean open spaces. I’ve now walked 76km of the 282km path and had my leg over 100 stiles. So far from Prestatyn it’s been very hilly but today’s walk from south of Llangollen to Four Crosses […]
Today its Twitter’s turn to modify their Terms of Service . Much shorter than the iTunes agreement at 1624 words (11242 )although the lawyers once again love their long sentences 73 words (99) with the number of sentences at 1/10th that of iTunes. Here is the Textalyser data. Total word count : 1624 Number of […]
Having just upgraded my iPhone software to 3.1. I was suddenly confronted with the monster 69 iphone pages of contract before I could access Itunes. Just for fun I analysed it in Textalyser and Wordle. Here are the results:- Total word count : 11242 Number of different words : 1530 Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : […]
Busily planning my next little hiking trip, which has to take less than two weeks, so I can be back to take Emily of to Sussex to start her three years of partying 🙂 Sorry, university! Here is the elevation plot of the proposed trip taking using memory map:- Pretty bumpy, should be interesting, More […]
According to the natty programme developed by Stats about me. My Facebook profile shows:-“You have 124 friends, 4 more than average. 61% are male, 39% are female. 11 are single, 54 are dating or married. If you contracted a deadly variant of flu, you would likely infect 9 people, 1 of whom would die. If […]
After much effort with dodgy computers I’ve stitched together all 10 days of my travel to Les Gets. Joost at Everytrail listened to their customers and have now enabled importing pictures from Picasa. So here is the trip with all the photos beautifully geotagged. The GPS data is down to street level so you can […]
On the Tenth day I made it to Les Gets by 4pm. Two Cols climbed with a total ascent of over 6000 feet (two Ben Nevis’s nearly) and a distance of 70 miles. Not bad at all, the total journey came in at 779miles. The weather stayed fine so I managed to stay warm the […]
A day in the Haut Jura. Dominated by the torrential rain and my freezing feet. They became blocks of ice on the descent into Morez through driving rain, my only thought became on how to get into a red hot bath asap. I stopped at 61 miles with 1947m of ascent for the day. A […]
One week ago I was biking with Sally down the River Lee and the Regents canal with a wonderful welcome at Daphne’s. 647 miles later I’ve been cycling on my own down the Canal de la Marne a la Saône and Saône river and am now listening to screaming French kids at the Pizz Up […]