Ridgeway leg 1

Last Sunday we started to walk the Ridgeway, our long-distance challenge for the start of 2009. It's an ancient 139 km route from roughly Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns.
We parked the car in Ogbourne St George and got on a local bus to Marlborough. A second bus took us to Avebury from where it is about a 3 km walk to the start of the Ridgeway at Overton Hill. From Overton Hill we walked 16 km until we were just South of Ogbourne St George and walked back to the car. Soon after it was dark... Perfect.

Scotland 2008 Autumn

Here are some photos of our holiday to Scotland which included the World Stone Skimming Championship!

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A weekend in West Lulworth

Dorset is a beautiful place. At the end of April we stayed in a B&B in West Lulworth and did some lovely coastal walking. Below I plotted the routes that we walked on Saturday and Sunday. By clicking on the View Larger Map link you get a better view in Google Maps and are able to see the elevation profiles of each walk. There are also links to the KML files which you can download to view the walks and profiles in Google Earth.

Route map for Saturday:

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Google Earth KML file

Route map for Sunday:

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Google Earth KML file

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Ronde van Vlaanderen

We went to Belgium to watch the famous cycling race Ronde van Vlaanderen. And on the Saturday before the race, we had a chance to taste what it's like by cycling a shorter 75 km version of the route. It rained all day, but it was brilliant! Next year we'll be back for the 140 km version. We watched the professionals on Sunday at the steepest section of the "Muur van Geraardsbergen". Great atmosphere.

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Our 75 km route:

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This route is also published on MapMyRide

Oslo

Here are some photos of our long weekend to Oslo.

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