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The journal
Finally made it to Samara at 11pm last night. The bus was totally packed with some folks standing for the five and a half hour journey from San Jose. I was wedged in behind some guy who insisted on reclining his seat 🙁 At the bus station I met a young couple from Switzerland who […]
Arrived in the Cost Rica backpackers hostel at 5pm after leaving Cambridge at 2.45am, A long day with all the connections clicking into place, lets hope it goes as well for Sally. The immigration officer was very friendly even though ne noticed my birthplace, on the passport, doesn’t have a football team. Knew i should […]
Writing this on the plane as we are about to depart to Madrid en route to San Jose, Costa Rica. Smooth if somewhat early start 🙂 Left Maisie & parents an Easter Egg for when they arrive to live in the house for the next 3 months. So chocks away…..
Today I noticed my Flickr viewson the 5,697 images I share have reached 100,089 🙂 Would have been nice to display my popular image of all time but Flickr don’t seem to let me find out easily, anymore 🙁 Wonder how many pictures the collection will grow by on the the next 90 days!
I finally managed to get my bargain 4GB Asus701 Eee to run with XP professional and for there to be still about 1GB of spare space after installing all my must have programmes for travelling and suffering the SP3 upgrade. Various points of hard earned wisdom are:- Use nLite to shrink your XP but be […]
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 […]
Some clips from Jeff Jarvis which I totally agree with. Twitter“On celebrity, Marwick says that it is a one-to-many relationship. Celebrity is having followers. Aha, so that makes Twitter a machine that makes us all celebrities, no? Everybody’s famous to 15 followers.” Flickr“When the photo service Flickr started, its husband-and-wife founders, Caterina Fake and Stewart […]
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 […]
Les Gets is having plenty of snow this year :-). Here is a snapshot of the webcam in the centre of the village, looks like they have set up a snowboard park in the village square with some guy just getting air on his board! You can see my apartment on the webcam as well, […]
A post for posterity, in case I loose the instruction manual for my Ryobi IR Thermometer Model SW-638E, a Christmas present from Sally. It can measure temperatures of -20 to +315 degrees Celsius However, for the lower temperatures it can take 10-15minutes to adjust. For best accuracy the objects have to be under 2 feet […]