I plucked up enough courage this morning to go to the Shrewsbury parkrun. I had been holding back because I imagined there being hundreds of athletic fitness fanatics in shorts and vests and expensive running shoes. There were plenty of these people at the bandstand in the Quarry at 9 o’clock but also some less… Read More »
Three weeks in south Devon. What is there to do? Well there are a few little towns and villages to visit and then there’s bigger places like Plymouth but mostly people come here for the walks and the coastal scenery. My adventuring was curtailed in the first instance by Storm Noa which kept me indoors… Read More »
I finished work at a reasonable time and got back to the hotel with a few hours of daylight left so I decided to take a long walk up the hill. I had been up there before but not left enough time to get to the top. I set off at 5pm and made good… Read More »
It was a rare weekend stuck in Morogoro and I had trawled the internet to find something interesting to do in the town. Apart from visiting a giant Baobab tree (aren’t they all giant?) the only other thing I found was a walk to Choma Waterfall. I had never been up into the mountains I… Read More »
Last time I came to the part of Romania was around 30 years ago and I was impressed with Brasov and Moeciu de Sus. Moeciu is a small village in the Carpathian Mountains and I still have photos from when I was here last of me sitting in the sun on a hillside. Things have… Read More »
After getting over the loss of my beloved Fitbit and settling for a couple of free apps on my iPhone I was introduced to the Wechat app tonight by my Chinese friends. Wechat is a tools without which you can’t function socially in China. We have work groups, groups of friends, video calls, calls with… Read More »
I loved my Fitbit. I was like having a friend on my wrist, a friend who knew where I was going, how far, how fast and how many calories I was burning. It knew how many flights of stairs I can climbed; in short it felt like there was a living being on my wrist.… Read More »
I love the craziness of Nanjing, old people doing their early morning exercises – slapping trees, hitting themselves with sticks, slapping their legs, rubbing their calves across a metal bar, shouting to warm up their voices, clapping, hitting their head with their fists and my favourite… my absolute favourite is walking backwards. Nobody believes me… Read More »