My first ‘proper’ FC game of the season and it wasn’t pretty – FC having missed fortunes at the start of this campaign with 2 defeats and one 5-0 win – Rossendale made it tough, quick to close down but 2 FC goals from a free kick and a penalty got the points despite the best goal of the game coming from Rossendale.

I have often said that one of the greatest things about watching FC is the chance to see parts of Lancashire that I wouldn’t normally get to see and today was another such day – credit to the Rossendale Football Club who put on bands, barbeques, bars and stalls in the car park – possibly the best that FC fans have been treated on our travels

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“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

toblerones, unfeasible knives and some bmx’ers – never photograhed bmxing before – and now have a new found respect for anyone who can do it well – its difficult, pretty unpredictible and very difficult to get the backgrounds clutter free

General Geneva Pics here

Asphalt-issimo BMX / Skate fest Geneva 2007 pics here

Last night I decided that I wanted to climb Mont Blanc – thats it in the picture – the highest point, I spoke to a couple of people and tried to assess just how much of a task this would be, general opinion seemed to be that my fitness was fine, and the mountain was not really about fitness but altitude acclimatisation and weather – particularly weather… so… i’m thinking that this could be something worth doing – if for nothing else it gives me an excuse to get out in crampons on the scottish hills this winter – time was when the ranges of snowdonia would have given me enough snow to practise on – but not any more. Mont Blanc 2008 – who’s with me? Its either that or the crazy 160km mountain marathon that starts from Chamonix and goes through Italy and Switzerland via the foothills of Mont Blanc – now that is crazy.

Anyway, i digress – perhaps the best view of the mont blanc range can be seen from le Brevent

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Well the weather cleared and some great walking was had, but to be honest I never took as many photos as I did on the first couple of days as there was nothing quite as good.

One walk in particular should be commented on if for no other reason than for me to have a whinge – the walk starts from Les Houches (980m) and ascends firstly to Col de Voza at 1653m and on to Nid d’Aigle at 2372m – but you can take a cable car to Bellevue at 1801m – take it. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from walking the first half of this walk – unless you have some sort of weird love of walking on very steep roads – on the second half though, the walk becomes worth it, a spectacular walk alongside glacier de Bionnassay

As you can see from the picture – the weather was not really the best and we pretty much missed out on any spectacular vistas but we did see a few of the fellas pictured above, bouquetin or alpine ibex.

No gallery today as frankly the pictures just aren’t any good

Going out with me must be pretty ace – going on holiday for the 6am starts so you can traipse up a mountain and watch me take photographs as the temperatures slowly rise with the sun to freezing point… pretty.awesome

Gallery of Day 2 – Aiguille du Midi – Mer De Glace

Gallery of Day 1 – Walks in the hills around PLanpraz

Glad I did get up early though as the weather has closed in pretty badly and doesn’t look like getting much better any time soon.

Betws-y-coed is a great place at the best of times but when it has a church fete that includes ferret racing and a classic car rally, its the best place ever to dander around feeling sore after a days walking

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So, about 3 weeks ago I am talking to Richard about what walks he has been doing and he begins to describe a walk that in his words is ‘possibly the best walk i have ever done‘ – now this is a guy who has done some amount of walks – when he goes for a pint of milk it usually involves a full travese of the Peaks, so when he describes a walk this highly it has to be done.

The walk starts in Dolwyddelan which is a couple of stops down the line from Betws-y-Coed – in fact the train is a great way todo it, as long as you catch the 8:07 (saturdays) becuase there isn’t another train until 11am – The Map needed is OL17 – which we never had but luckly for us the local Spar is open early and stocks Maps as well and it is likely to finish in the pub over the road, the Gwydir some 5-6 hours later.

Is it the best walk ever? – Its certainly a contender – its has fantastic scrambling up some impressive rock, it has beautiful forest, it has lakes, disused quarrys – it has very very few people on it and it has what must surely be some of the best views in Wales looking back onto the Snowdon Range – its certainly a contender.

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Den ganzen Beitrag lesen…

taken on saturday night near london bridge as i tried to make my way from SW London to East London

Pretty terrible game of football but a good day out

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