Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Morning in Bashkimi, Dobërdol Breakfast in Bashkimi was nice with bread, jam, blueberry cake and some doughnut type things. There was roasted aubergines and peppers too, and some apples along with coffee and tea. There was also good conversation and a friendly vibe. Then we made jam sandwiches ready to take with us for lunch...
It was another quiet night at camp and as we only had a short day ahead of us we had a slow start. We let the tents dry out fully whilst eating porridge and drinking coffee for breakfast and then set off over the border from Albania into Montenegro once again and uphill into the...
Day 2 of our adventure hiking through the Balkans dawned somewhat damp. It had been raining overnight and had gotten a little heavier as the morning dawned. We were at around 1850 m of elevation in Montenegro camping on a lovely meadow with views out over the mountains – not that you would know it...
Our trip to Canada to visit Morgan was cancelled due to the fact that Morgan decided to come home much earlier than anticipated. Part of the trip was going to include a trek for Morgan and I along the Juan de Fuca Trail on Vancouver Island. This too was cancelled. So, with annual leave already...
We don’t seem to have had much of a summer here this year. There has been the odd sunny day but no long spells of summery weather, and the solar panels know it! Sometimes it just feels as though the weather has been terrible but I thought I’d check the generation of the solar panels...
I got kind of excited by the release of satellite messaging on the latest iPhones and iOS. It’s a good safety feature that allowed me to send a location update and more importantly send an SOS message should I need to, even when I didn’t have any mobile reception. It’s free and seemed to work...
Nuttals Bagged This Trip Pen yr Allt Uchaf – 630 m Gwaun Lydan – 632 m Llechwedd Du – 614 m Esgeiriau Gwynion – 671 m Foel Rhudd – 659 m Foel Hafod-fynydd – 689 m Erw Ddafad-ddu – 872 m Aran Fawddwy – 905 m Gwaun y Llwyni – 685 m Waun Camddwr –...
Anna and I had a lovely evening out (for Anna’s birthday) on Saturday. We’d been meaning to go to the Stubborn Duckling in Aberaeron for a while and finally had an excuse to do so – there are some advantages to getting older! So, after a couple of days in the hills I headed home,...
Having recently completed a circumnavigation of Wales on foot I decided I needed a new project to have on the back-burner. When I first set out on my journey to conquer the Wales Coast Path, I was fit, relatively young, and had the luxury of dedicating a day each week to it. But as life...
This weekend was all about the honey harvest! Anna collected the extractor on Friday afternoon and I’d already put clearer boards on a couple of our hives. The ‘Bedroom’ Hive was huge with 4 completely full supers and a fifth that was half full. ‘Dyfi’ hive had two full supers and ‘Leri’ had a couple...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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