I’ve previously written about my planning workflow when creating routes. My preference is to start in MyRoute-app before exporting to GPX. The GPX files are then opened in Garmin Basecamp and recalculated. This uses the latest map data on the Navigator VI which is also loaded on the computer. You can use a plugin to […]
Read More Navigating the joys of GPX routes in Garmin BasecampA feeling of being behind schedule It’s already spring and I feel I’ve done nothing! Usually, my hibernation has been and gone by the end of January. However, as the milestones on the calendar pass, I’ve been stuck in a perpetual routine of ennui. Perhaps the weather is to blame. We had a couple of […]
Read More Following the footsteps of the Wild Atlantic WayI had returned from Spain. I’d unpacked and accounted for everything. I’d washed the bike and now my attention had turned to what next? Not wanting to go over the same old ground and with renewed enthusiasm after a successful tour, I was looking for something new. I was only looking for day trips to […]
Read More GPS is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rulesIt seems a lifetime since I last travelled in Europe. Looking back it was a very different time. Brexit had yet to happen and a global pandemic wasn’t even a consideration. Some travellers did manage to get onto the continent in the short period between lockdowns. All I managed to achieve was a shelved plan […]
Read More Post Brexit Euro travel with a dash of PandemicMy writing comes from my experiences. When the experiences are limited, then so is the writing. I am reminded of this while browsing my posts over the last year, or rather lack of. To further reinforce this I stumbled upon a stub of text that I wrote back in November 2019. I was barely home […]
Read More Looking forward to a fresh startIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]
Read More A Tale of Two Countries