Tagged: Wales

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Good Friday Kite Flying

After a week or so of glorious weather, sun tans, shorts and busy bee-keeping, a sudden plunge back into temperatures below freezing, icy winds and snow on the hills just in time for the school holidays was a bit of a shock. Needless to say, this coupled with the fact that I was ill meant...

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Pwllheli Triathlon 2012 – Race Report

April 1st already and time for Pwllheli Triathlon, my first race of the season – will the winter training have paid off? Will I be any faster? How will the competition do? The first race of the season is always a bit of an unknown, but less so than last year when it was also...

Starling Murmuration in Aberystwyth 2

Starling Murmuration in Aberystwyth

The Pier on Aberystwyth is becoming known as a spectacular place to watch starlings coming in to roost, so here’s some footage of the starling murmuration at its best. An amazing display by the starlings all with the gorgeous backdrop of Aberystwyth seafront on a sunny Spring evening. What could be better?

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British Summertime – We love it!

Sorry for the lack of updates here over the past few days, but the weather has just been far too nice. My job as a web designer has me sat in front of the computer all day long so over the weekend that was the last thing I wanted to be doing, especially whilst the...

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Geocaching along the Mawddach Trail

The weather has been terrible here since Christmas, but we really wanted to get Morgan out for a decent ride on his new bike. We had a quick spin around Nant yr Arian on it on Boxing Day and he’d been over to the beach on it, but really needed an easy, long ride to...

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Another Day, Another Windsurf

Day four of 2012, and Windsurf number 4 too. It was nowhere near as windy as it was yesterday but the winds were still around 25-35 knots so I went out with a bigger board and my 5m sail. I was pretty tired already though from a 10km run the night before and another 55...

A Meteoric Run 0

A Meteoric Run

I had a nice run with the Tri Club last night. The run itself was fairly uneventful, just an undulating 10km run with Pete, Graham and Karen. It  was a cool, clear night with plenty of light from the Moon and good views of Jupiter not far from the Moon. On the way back we took a bit of...

Windsurfing in the Winter Sun 6

Windsurfing in the Winter Sun

The temperature dropped a fair bit here today, but the wind was blowing and for a change the sun was shining. There was therefore only one thing to do and that was make the most of my prolonged Christmas holiday and head to the beach for a windsurf. It wasn’t that exciting a sail, just...

End of Year Windsurf 0

End of Year Windsurf

December seems to be remaining surprisingly mild this year and thankfully brought with it plenty of wind between Christmas and New year, so it was business as usual here with plenty of windsurfing. Steve and AndyW joined me and there were a number of kite-surfers out too including Spooker, Neal, Neil, Andy, Dunk and probably...

More Winter Windsurfing 0

More Winter Windsurfing

Just a few quick clips from a lovely sunny, bit cold winter windsurf session on Wednesday. 30 knot Westerly winds with air temperatures around 5ºC meant that with the windchill we were looking at sub-zero temperatures. It was still good fun though.