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From A Nice Weekend in Varna
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From Niagara Falls
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From East Cumbria Search Panel
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From Gimmer
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From My Dad's Birthday and Debauchery...
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From SMC Meet at RLH
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From Dazed cyclist
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From Holiday With Doggies - Part 2,
Dolomites and Venice
Year: 2012
Two weeks ago I decided to visit the Bulgarian seaside near Varna. It is only 260 km from Bucharest and its beach called Golden Sand is a very popular seaside resort. And it’s super cheap, too!
I spent last week in Niagara at the International Association of Hydrogeologists Congress. We arrived pretty late at night and looking out of my hotel window at some unearthly hour in the morning I could see a huge dinosaur, a ferris wheel and a steaming volcano; I thought I was in Las Vegas. Thankfully when …
I don’t understand imperial measurements: and typically the Americans add extra levels of screwiness!
Sunday was my second day out training with the Kendal Mountain Rescue Team. The training was a joint exercise led by Penrith – the East Cumbria Search Panel…
The forecast was for sun and Astrid had called to say she had a pass out.
… all in the same weekend.
While the BBC confidently proclaimed what wonderful sunny weather we would all be having at the weekend, in Cumbria it was drizzling, foggy, and damp. Why do those dim witted Londoners regularly fail to see beyond the end of their noses?
Cycling to Eastwood from home to see my Grandad seemed like a perfectly sensible thing to do, which it was on the way there. The 38 mile journey flew by in about 2 hours 20 minutes. The way home was a bit more tiring… I even had to stop half way for cola and chocolate …
It’s not only Terry and Bernie who fancied the Dolomites this summer.
