Author Archives: dipidydoo
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 […]
Maps Day 2 and 3.
It was a beautiful day, the drive in with the crags gleaming in the sun. A perfect arena, next to the car park and adjacent to the start, who would have thought such a thing possible? My run was better, one bad control, number 5, spent some time thrashing around the knolls under the top […]
STIRLING CASTLE, BIRNAM & DUNKELD.
A day of relaxation at last On our drive from Edinburgh to Crieff two days ago, we detoured via Stirling Castle to see what we missed having not come to Scotland a couple of years earlier to take part in Sprint the Castles, two of which were Edinburgh and Stirling. It was a grey and […]
DAY 1. SS6D. AUCHINGARRICH.
Todays threatened rain did not eventuate and it actually got quite warm, especially for those of us who took the tick hazard warning seriously and wore full body cover. Many of you will remember that Australian orienteer Hugh, came close to death after contracting a tick borne infection whilst orienteering in Europe. The map was […]
EDINBURGH IS FOR THE BIRDS
EDINBURGH IS FOR THE BIRDS. Ilze and I rose early this morning, not because of our rising levels of anticipation at being able to visit Edinburgh Castle but because our accommodation, “close to Leith’s water front district and exciting cafes” and is also home to 50000 shrieking seagulls who use our roof upon which to […]
Yorkshire to Scotland
Changing accents Today we “changed accents” again, from the lovely accent of the Yorkshire folk, to the almost unfathomable accent of the Scottish folk. Help, I’m going to need subtitles!!!!! But before Scotland, an update on our last day in Yorkshire. We drove to visit Fountains Abbey and Water Gardens. I had previously visited this […]
YORK MINSTER.
In AD 71 the Romans founded a fortress at Eboracum the ruins of which can be seen in the Undercroft of York Minster. 250 years later Constantine was declared Emperor in that same fort on top of which now stands this wonderful building. Why is this really relevant? Because 100 years later the Roman Emperor […]
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