Monthly Archives: August 2019
“THERE’S A BEAR IN THERE….”
On our last day in Scotland Ilze and I drove to Glasgow via the Trossarchs and found this wee tea-shop with not so wee Highland Cattle. Inside the compulsory souvenir shop wee found this delightful wee bear kitted out in a wee kilt made from Harris tWEEd and she decided she need to come to […]
GRIME TO GEISERS
From Glasgow to Iceland Our time in Glasgow turned out to be a disappointing fizzer. If you’re thinking of spending some time in Glasgow, our advice is DON’T!! The city itself is a bleak and run-down place, once a thriving ship building city employing thousands of people. Now, with the ship building industry gone, it […]
SS6D Days 5 & 6. Goodbye Little Red tent.
And so it’s done. The Scottish 6 days has been run, and all orienteers run ragged. The courses and terrain were difficult. Getting to the starts was even more difficult, with many competitors having more climb and distance to their starts, than their actual courses. Today’s event, the final day of competition, had a remote […]
SS6D 4. Blogging from bed.
It all looked so easy once you had picked up the map. Mostly open farm with patches of gorse and heather and only 120 metres of climb. Pity about the 220 metres of climb up to the start. It was “only ” an 1.8km walk but the last 600m was as near to vertical as […]
SPRINT AT MACROSTY PARK. CRIEFF
Another great day and the rain came later. A beautiful park only 1km from the town, I have never run on such lush grass. I didn’t make any mistakes but I did make one poor route choice. I should have gone from 17 to 18 back down the path and roundabout instead of clambering down […]
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