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From Cumbria Bolt Fund Work
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From Washington DC
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From Rome
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From Athens
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From Vosges
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From Panoramic Route
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From Cape Town
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From Champagne & the Great War - weird extremes, Luxury & Suffering
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From Country Fest at Crooklands
Category: Adventure
Adventures not covered by other, more specific, categories.
I’ve spent the past few weeks working on a couple bolting programmes in anticipation of the new Lakes Sport & Slate guidebook to be published by the FRCC under the Wired publishing brand…
Laetitia had some work to do in Washington (work, huh, but the bills do need paying 😉 ) which gave us an opportunity to tag an adventure on to the journey and explore a part of the US we might not have ever explored otherwise…
Laetitia was off to Rome for a week with her work, so we stole the opportunity to head out for the weekend before and enjoy a sight seeing city break…
Our time in Leonidio came to an end all too quickly and it was time to start the journey home. But we had planned to take advantage of our location and explore a little of perhaps what makes Greece one of the most famous places on Earth and certainly one of the most ancient civilisations …
On our trip south for the Marmotte we decided to break up the journey… This had several benefits – We visited Belgium and saw the Atomium in Brussels, We visited Luxembourg City, We saved a massive amount of money on tolls by not using French motorways, and We happened across the Vosges Mountains…
After our amazing safari experience the final part of our South African adventure was to take in the Panoramic Route on our way back to Johannesburg…
We’ve wanted to visit South Africa for years and years, and this year events conspired to make it possible…
On the way home from the Briancon we broke the journey down by calling in on the Champagne region to find out if any deals were to be had. They were! We grabbed a box of six bottles of Canard – Duchene for much much less than we pay back in the UK. 🙂
Last night there was another terror attack in London. The terrorists want to disrupt our way of life, but we won’t let that happen. In a small part of the north west of England, very far away from any thoughts of terrorism, a very traditional British summer festival takes place – the Country Fest at …