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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 […]
The big day arrives tomorrow, Sally and I bike off to London with me continuing on to my apartment in Les Gets (if I’m up to it!). My Caradice saddlebag is all packed and Howes have fixed my Dawes bike up! The Eee is coming with me so hopefully the photos will get put up […]
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 […]
Finally, one week later, I can publish our trail and photographs for our Cumbrian Way weekend. Sally and I are both quite proud that we managed over 60 miles and 8400ft of ascent in three days walking. The weather was in our favour being cool and sunny most of the time. The reason for the […]
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs “A” team walk should have been led by Larry unfortunately he was indisposed so Jill took over at the last minute, hence the couple of blips on the GPS trail! The walk was designed as a figure of eight with Ickworth Hall in the centre, acting as a rendezvous point for […]
Today’s ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team started further afield 🙂 The start was at Audley End, Vera led 13 of us, at a cracking pace, across the rolling Essex countryside to The Langleys were we stopped for our sandwiches outside the The Bull. Tea was taken alongside the stream in the very […]
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 […]
Today’s 13.3mile walk was with the Southern Norfolk walkers group. The 61st event led by Paul! Twenty of us joined him on this event. The weather stayed dry but overcast. Santon Downham Walk Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging To import the trail I tried using the Ascent software as suggested by Euan, However, I […]
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:- […]