Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Today marks my first cycling day in this years marathon ride which, hopefully, will take me to Les Gets to visit my apartment and maybe meet Euan for a walk or two. I hope to cycle over to Zurich to see my neühew then onto the start of The Danube River at Donoueschlingen, cycling down […]
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 […]
Whilst in Les Gets I learnt from Thierry that icicles are a sign of a poor roof or defective guttering. Today, Sally spotted this on MY house here in Cambridge. Oh dear, really don’t fancy clambering up a three extension ladder 40 feet and fixing this 🙁 I guess it’s not in the same league […]
My friend George, his son Graham and friend Ian, arrived somewhat earlier than anticipated at 3.30am this morning 🙁 I met George when I was working at the Renishaw Iron Works in 1962. He was the assistant instructor to the redoubtable Fred Smith on the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme operated out of Parkgate Steel […]
After yesterdays total wash out (Although I did spend the day transferring blogs to my account at webfaction and learning about host files in windows, including using the rather cool HostsMan programme). It was great to wake up to a massive dump of snow (which killed the apartments power from 3am to 8am). Thierry reassured […]
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 […]
Another site for checking the predicted monetary value of your website over at WebValuer. Here are the results for GeoffJones:- Cool to see I’ve had the site for over 10 years now and interesting to see there seems to be a slight upward trend in visitors. At $7.74 a day I’m not going to get […]
Its beginning to look good for winter sports in Les Gets, France where my apartment is. Here is the webcam view taken this evening from the tourist office looking towards the apartment. Currently I have bookings on the following dates:- 26 Dec 2008 to 4 Jan 2009 (KB party of 4) 4 Jan to 31st […]
