Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Finally after 2 full days of travelling we touched down in Auckland at around 1pm and now it was time to get through passport control, customs and biosecurity. Being an island that has been separated from elsewhere for the past 100 million years or so, the flora and fauna of New Zealand has a high percentage...
We arrived at Kuala Lumpur Airport at 17:32 Malaysian time after a 12 hour and 22 minute flight from Heathrow. We now had a 4 hour and 18 minute stopover in the transit terminal. I’d planned a quick session in the gym at the transit terminal hotel so headed off there. Whilst there I met...
It had been a while coming but on Tuesday October 16th, after weeks of planning and preparation, our family trip to New Zealand finally began. In case you didn’t already know, it had been a dream location of ours for years but time and money constraints had always meant that it remained just that, a...
First and apology for the lack of posts here recently, but I’ve been on the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand and was without Internet access. Second a precautionary tale that I shall be making up for this over the next days and weeks with a day by day account of our trip. I turn...
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...
Not being a seasoned traveller I’ve never had the need for any flight tracking apps on my iPad but with an impending trip to New Zealand on the horizon I thought I’d check some out and ended up using Flight+, a really clever app designed to track and manage flights all around the world. It’s really...
~ 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...
We headed off from the cottage at around 7am and dropped Pat off at the airport before boarding the ferry to Kennacraig… We were of course early at both the airport and the ferry terminal so had to wait around a little, but once back on the mainland we put our driving heads on and...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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