“said Simple Simon to the Flyman, Please let me go there” Off on our next Orienteering across the ditch to Oamaru and Queenstown on New Zealand’s south island for their National Championship, the famous three, Debbie Ilze and Me, were waiting in the departure lounge at Melbourne airport for the arrival of the fourth member […]
Both my wife Ilze and I are LEGEND members of the Melbourne Millennium Club. To achieve this status a member must have competed in at least 1000 Park and Street Orienteering events since the year 2000. Ilze is close approaching her 1500 and I am nearly 2000 and about half of those events have been […]
Enough with the colourful landscape, back to business. Orienteering. Today we have a double header. First event was a 60 minute score course on the Telegraph Station map. A section is in the photos and as it was drawn at 1:6000 it wont all fit on. Great map and the 7.30am start made it fabulous and cool. Strange […]
Ilze and I had a quiet day today, just a lazy 360kms out to Glen Helen Homestead for their world famous chips. ( and trust me, they are a superior chip). Its just as well as they are the only food and petrol for an eyewatering amount of kilometres. On the way, via the Larapinta Highway […]
That’s the second time in a few weeks that Dipidyoo have had to make apologies to ACDC. This time it’s Ilze and Pete off to Alice Springs for an outback break and the Alice Springs Masters Games. In the planning stages, a guided bus tour from the Alice to Uluru with a sunset dinner, sounded […]
We woke up to quite a change in the weather – cloudy and cold with a stiff breeze blowing up the hill. It seemed silly to drive to an event that was literally less than 500 metres away from our front door, so we walked instead, setting off late in the morning. We set ourselves […]
No sooner had we arrived home and recovered from Europe, than I was repacking my bags, this time for a trip to South Australia with Pete, Ilze, Tina and Vic. The Australian Orienteering Champs were on, and having chucked in my job, I was free to go along for the ride. No such luck for […]
After a morning spent doing nothing much, we finally decided to check out the neighbourhood. Which happens to be the home of the 2012 Olympic Games. Yes, the ones where Great Britain beat us in pretty much everything. Anyway, when it’s the last day of your holiday, and you have a tower thingy with a […]
With just two days left, it was time to cram in everything we hadn’t done yet. Of course, this is impossible in London, but we gave it a good bash. We decided to divide and conquer in the morning by heading to two different museums, then meeting up in the afternoon This warranted a flow […]
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 […]
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