Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I think I’m right in saying that most of the UK has been experiencing some unseasonably nice weather over the last week, with temperatures in the 20’s and gorgeous blue skies and blazing sunshine.. Here in Wales we certainly have and for me it has been as good as it gets. We have a local...
What a lovely Easter weekend that was.. Gorgeous sunshine, warm and not too busy here. Anna, Morgan and I did a bit of geocaching and visited a few new caches in Aberystwyth known as the Oakey Pokey series as they are all hidden in oak trees. They provided a nice little walk along a quite...
I had a great day in the hills yesterday. The sun was shining it was really hot and I was off in search of 3 geocaches. I parked near Nant-y-Moch and headed straight up to the summit of Plynlimon, I didn’t find the first cache of the day so headed off around the ridge and...
We had another action packed weekend here in West Wales. I had an early start on Saturday as Ivor (the local katabatic wind that blows down the Dyfi Valley at this time of year) was up to his tricks and Impi called around for a windsurf session at 6am. We headed off to the estuary...
British Summer Time (BST) is here and it seems as though it has brought Summer with it. Yesterday was lovely here in Borth, Wales. The sun was shining and Ivor, our local katabatic wind, put in an appearance so I could go windsurfing in the estuary at Ynyslas. Ivor wasn’t quite up to full strength...
After having a great days windsurfing on Saturday I thought it only fair that I resist the temptation to go windsurfing again on Sunday, (despite the fact that the Borth and Ynyslas Weather Station showed a max gust speed of 49.7 knots), and have a family day out instead… Well, it was Mother’s Day. So,...
Just a quick congratulations for ttTom (Tom and Shirl) for getting the first to find on all 5 new geocaches that I hid at the weekend in the Watery Wales 2 series. Also, a congratulations to Gwyddno who followed them around closely and got the second to find on all 5 caches. It sounds as...
Following a nice day of activities hiding geocaches and then windsurfing on Sunday, Anna, Morgan and I all headed off to the Wildfowler in Tre-r-Ddol for dinner. Two meals for the price of one and it was really nice. Best of all my pint of blackcurrant and lemonade (I was driving!) on cost 35p!!
Its been a few weeks since I’ve done any geocaching, but Sunday was a good day in the Welsh hills followed by a quick windsurf session on the beach at Borth. Steve and I headed off in the morning to hide some new geocaches. We drove up the mountain road from Tal-y-Bont towards Nant-y-Moch (and...
Many people think I’m a little mad going windsurfing here in Wales in the depths of winter…. Well, think again…. This video shows that windsurfing in Wales in the winter is fairly tame!
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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