Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
French ports of call
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006Victory in France
Monday, April 17th, 2006Greek dining
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006Conveniently the project leader for the education I have been delivering in Raleigh this week also runs a Greek restaurant with her husband. Xios proved to be a very stylish venue. Phil and I shared the Nenita option off the specials menu which was both extremely appetising and very filling.
Oslo outing
Thursday, March 9th, 2006A day at the races
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005Had a trip to Goodwood race course today courtesy of my employer. Having seen nothing larger than dogs racing before it was quite awesome to see these powerful beasts up close in the paddock. We didn’t spend much time in the stand as it was much more exciting to be right up at the rail as the horses thundered passed. The course even lays on a minibus out to the start so that you see the pre-race preparation.
Having lost my first bet I then proceeded to win in five out of the six remaining races. I was hedging my bets each way though which, combined with small stakes, meant I was only about £15 up at the end of the day. Still, with work paying for transport, food and drinks the day was definitely a winner!
Mourne Mountain Marathon
Monday, September 19th, 2005
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Czech orienteering failure
Sunday, September 4th, 2005Yesterday we went to the middle distance orienteering event that Petr was controlling for his club OK Jilemnice. It was a national competition for elite competitors and a regional competition for others. We had both entered elite. The area (called Omega after the building on the map) was steep and littered with rock features. This didn’t bode well for me as I’m not the most aggressive of runners at the best of times. With 23 controls any navigational errors soon added up. Suffice is to say that I ended up ten minutes down on the rest of the elite field and even Christine was two minutes behind the penultimate runner on her course.
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North Bohemia
Friday, September 2nd, 2005After the bustle of Prague it was nice to be taken out in to the countryside by our Czech friends Petr and Petra. It was a three hour train ride out to the village of Studenec where we have been staying with Petr’s family. Try getting any train journey in the UK for £2 let alone one for three hours! Yesterday we visited Petra’s home town of Hrádec Králové and then stopped briefly at Nove Mésto enroute to the fantastic sandstone rock formations at Adršpach.
Today, Petr was busy preparing for tomorrow’s event so we took the bus North with Petra to the Giant Mountains. We walked along the ridge from Å pindlerův Mlýn and up to Sněžka, the highest mountain in the Czech republic. It was then a bit of a sprint back down the valley to catch the last bus back.
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