Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Having been to New Zealand this year we are having to have a less extravagant Christmas than usual in order to save some money. No big four bird roast for us this year, not even a big goose or turkey instead we were planning to have a £10 3 bird roast from Iceland! Whilst in...
I was going to write a round-up of our trip to New Zealand, what we liked best, some of the best photos what we thought of the country and the differences and similarities between New Zealand and the UK, but I’ll save that for another day. Instead, a post about cake! One of my favourite things about...
We woke up a bit later than usual today, had breakfast in the camper and then had our final soak in the pools at the Waikite Thermal Valley complex before heading ever onwards on our road trip around New Zealands North Island. Rotorua and Canopy Tours We drove into Rotorua again, this time to do...
After spending the night in the car park of my parents holiday apartment in Taupo we had a leisurely breakfast with them and then set off to be tourists in the town. We wandered along the lake-front and then around the various souvenir shops where we bought ourselves some nice hand-crafted coasters made from native...
It’s Monday and we are still having the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand. We awake to a damp drizzly day in Otorohanga, have a shower and breakfast in Camp Kiwi and then take the 30 second walk to the Kiwi House. The Kiwi House We are the first ones in and are treated...
I can’t quite believe the number of gadgets we have packed ready for our trip to New Zealand: Garmin Forerunner 910XT GPS watch and Heart Rate monitor for training with. Camera – Canon EOS 450D complete with extra battery pack, 3 lenses and various bits and pieces Camera – Pentax Optio W60 – Little waterproof compact...
~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...
One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...
Phew, I think we’ve just about caught up after our whistle stop visit to the Isle of Man. The main reason for visiting the island this year was to attend the wedding of Andy and Natalie, but as the wedding fell on the same weekend as the Isle of Man End2End mountain bike race I...
We thought we’d introduce Morgan to the joys of hill walking at the weekend as he hasn’t really done any before and where better to start than the highest mountain in Wales. To be honest, it really is the best place to start, not only is it quite an easy climb but the fact that...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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