Saturday, 8 December 2007

Monday 3 December 2007 - Highlights of the Year – Part 2 – The Canadian Ski Marathon (CSM) – Saturday 10 February 2007

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This, my fourth CSM , was a great day. We were up at 6 am in our hotel in Montebello. After breakfast in the room shared by 5 of us we got t...
Friday, 7 December 2007

Sunday 2 December 2007 - Il-Quccija - A Maltese Celebration

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The Quccija celebrates a baby’s 1st birthday. At the Quccija guests consisting of relations and close friends are invited by the parents to...

Saturday 1 December 2007 - Center Parcs

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The Dishy Pharmacist and I headed across the Peak District to Sherwood Forest on a beautiful morning, the sun doing its best to burn its ima...

Friday 30 November 2007 - Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding

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Tomorrow is our annual pilgrimage to Center Parcs at Sherwood Forest, where our group of nine will do sporty things all day and then enjoy a...
Thursday, 6 December 2007

Thurday 29 November 2007 - Blogging Spam

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After nearly two months of blogging, I had my first incidence of spam on the blog overnight. Someone called Crescenet from Brazil. Now I don...

Wednesday 28 November 2007 - Highlights of the Year – Part 1 – The Rum Cuillin Ridge

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As today is a bit grey, and my bowels are still recovering from Jordan, it’s a day indoors, and I’m short of inspiration. But Jon Metcalf ha...

Tuesday 27 November 2007 - Innov8 Roclites in Sand

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As reported last week, our desert walk on 19 November was in ‘boots’. Having served me so well in Madeira, I had taken the now broken in Ro...
Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Jordan Slideshow - 'Happy Holidays'

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I have uploaded about 120 snaps to a Photobox album, with invitations to those on the Jordan trip, insofar as I have their details, and a ha...

Monday 26 November 2007 - A Surprise from San Jose

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One of the items of mail discovered on our return from Jordan was a package from one Thomas Rivell, of San Hose. Enclosed was the Sierra Clu...
Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Sunday 25 November 2007 - Orion Marches

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The trip to Jordan has inspired me to get hold of TE Lawrence’s ‘Pillars of Wisdom’. Spending time in this part of the world that has been ...

Saturday 24 November 2007 - Run From The Sun

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We said goodbye to Julie, who flies back to Canada tomorrow, before embarking on an uneventful journey to Heathrow on Royal Jordanian Airway...
Monday, 3 December 2007

Friday 23 November 2007 - A Roman Outpost, and a Floating Experience

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For a change, I didn’t sleep well, perhaps due to the noise outside and the scratchy sheets, and some stomach pain that a Cipro tablet sorte...

Thursday 22 November 2007 - Castles and Mosaics

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On Tuesday we met Marguerite van Geldermalsen, a New Zealander of Dutch parentage, who married a Bedouin following an unlikely holiday roman...
Friday, 30 November 2007

Wednesday 21 November 2007 - The Petra Experience

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Back to the 7 am reveille, breakfast of pitta bread, jam, cheese, eggs, halva, spices with olive oil, mixed veg, and very sweet tea or coffe...
Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Tuesday 20 November 2007 - A Camel Ride

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Knowing it was a 5 am start (so much for the ‘routine’ I explained yesterday!), we were awake at 4.45! Only as we were getting dressed did i...
Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Monday 19 November 2007 - Blistering Sand at Wadi Rum

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The routine for the rest of the week: Get up at 7 am, breakfast, leave at 8 am, day’s activities, evening meal at 6.30 – 7 pm. This is TE La...
Monday, 26 November 2007

Sunday 18 November 2007 - The Desert Highway to Wadi Rum

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Here’s a map of where we are going on this trip: We rose to a clear blue sky at 8am and breakfasted with the group in the hotel restaurant,...

Saturday 17 November 2007 (part 2) - Fifteen Hours ‘On the Road’

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The Dishy Pharmacist and I usually avoid organised ‘tours’, preferring the unpredictable excitement of organising our own. But when Phil an...
Saturday, 17 November 2007

Saturday 17 November 2007 - Blog Goes on Holiday

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Here’s the last Postcard from Sunny Timperley for a week, as sadly my blogging equipment is too bulky to take with me to next week’s excitin...
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Friday, 16 November 2007

Friday 16 November 2007 - Altimeter vs Global Positioning System

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Recent debate concerning the relative usefulness of these two bits of kit has stimulated two-penneth from me, for what it’s worth. The Suunt...
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