Category Orienteering in Europe
IN RAIN HAIL & SHINE.
The sprint Orienteering is done and we have a rest day tomorrow. The day started out cool and damp and we were able to walk to the start beneath a national monument in a park on the edge of the CBD. Ilze was able to get away early and found the going damp underfoot and […]
IT WAS A LONG WAY FOR A TURKISH TAKE-AWAY
Sorry there was no blog yesterday. Our arrival from Istanbul did not go well, delayed by 90 minutes and found that our driver had given up and left and despite Ilse’s language skills we couldn’t work out if he was coming back to get us. We waited another half an hour and then gave up […]
Sunday in the Park in Bloomsbury
Our final City Race was held in the streets, parks and squares of elegant Bloomsbury, on a pleasant Sunday morning. We started from Birkbeck University at Torrington Square – coincidentally, exactly where Ian’s great grandfather and other family members lived for many years. He could have watched the whole event from his front doorstep. No […]
London Old and New
The City Race on Saturday was an Urban race rather than a sprint, ie longer legs in a less complex area. Starting in Bermondsey again, we were initially moaning about the 2 km walk to the Start. That is, until we actually did it. We followed the Thames Path along the south embankment, ducking through […]
City Racing
It was the annual London City Race which had drawn us here, along with the chance to revisit a place which has undergone massive changes in the past two decades; and to visit the East End places where Ian’s family once lived. Besides, no-one really needs an excuse to visit London, do they? The City […]
Who Do We Think We Are
I blame Michael Portillo. The man has spent years traversing Britain by train, hunting out the quirky and obscure on our behalf. Our second “Portillo” was a visit to Barters Bookshop, in the old Alnwick railway station. One of the walls has a list of all the Alnwick railway workers, and there are several Dodds […]
Bavarian O Tour – The Maps
Here are hi res versions of the maps from the Bavarian O-Tour. Best seen by saving images in order to view details. Day 1 – Bamberg. Long distance forest. I only did controls 9-11, as I rolled my ankle the day before. Day 2 – Stussenbach. Middle distance. Beautiful pine forest with scattered rock. This […]
Border Country
It was Sunday morning, and time for our first ever UK orienteering event. The local club, Newcastle and Tyneside Orienteers (NATO), were staging an urban race in Killingworth, which is an outer suburb of Newcastle. It was very relaxed, with a “choose your own start time and course”. We felt that we’d done our share […]
A Proper Castle and a Big Brick Tower
We farewelled our Schloss in the morning, but before long we were headed to another castle – Burg Trausnitz, which is perched on a hill above the city of Landshut, and which was the venue for the final day of the Bavarian O Tour. We’d been promised orienteering in and around the castle and on […]
Running Around Regensburg
It was just a short hop to Regensburg for the fourth race, as we resumed our orienteering program. We had a 900 metre walk to the start. Normally this is a chore, but today we headed off through wooded parkland beside the river, then past colourful houses, a fountain in a platz, under an arch, […]
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