Martin McDowell's Blog

What a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend a March Sunday. In fact it was so nice I wish the hike would have lasted a bit longer. Instead I took the opportunity to sit and enjoy the sunshine on the wooden bench by the Sychbant car park were this walk starts and ends. The walk (no. [...]

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I don’t intend to just mention when companies do bad things. It should also ne noticed when they do some good things as well. I recently bought an iPhone from O2 so I had to switch my mobile operator from T-Mobile to O2. I explained this to T-Mobile and asked them if they could send me [...]

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As the book states this is a walk where you can see lots of nice views and hardly meet anyone. And it was true for me. Only people I met were some farmers on a field, however the fact that I did the walk on a Tuesday afternoon might have had something to do with [...]

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Nice contrast from the Rosebush walk I took yesterday. This walk is no 40 called Pentre Evan Nature Reserve and I just a great forest walk with some hill climbing thrown in as well. This was also the walk that was the most confusing as the instructions in the book did  not help in many [...]

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It actually called Foel Cwmcerwyn and is the walk no. 20 in the book. There hasn’t been any proper rain for a couple of weeks so it looked promising. I had to abandon this walk weeks ago due to the fact that one big part of the walk was transformed into quite a substantial stream. [...]

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Danes (14. marca 2009) se je po TV in časopisju v Veliki Britaniji na dolgo in široko pisalo o najnovejšem načinu, kako bo država opazovala (beri: kontrolirala) še dodaten del našega življenja in sicer potovanje v tujino. Tu seveda Britanci ne bi bili Britanci, če bi se v to smatralo tudi potovanje v druge EU [...]

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This walk seemed the muddiest of them all, in fact I am wandering how exactly to wash my walking shoes and the washing machine is getting to be the favourite. This is the walk no. 32 and can easily be combined with no. 33 (Treffgarne Gorge) as they both start from the same point. That [...]

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According to my experience, yes. I tell all Ryanair visitors in advance that this here is my personal opinion and will not allow the publication of rude comments from anyone. I had the misfortune of booking my flight today only to be confronted with an error just at the point you would least like it [...]

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This was one of the walks from the book I mentioned before. This was walk no. 31. The village of Llawhaden is very easy to find as it is signposted on the A40. The parking is just before the castle. The path soon starts to be quite nice once you leave the broad muddy track [...]

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Ooops no more. I have received my container back this morning via FedEx. The tracking itself proves why it sometimes makes sense to switch your courier service. As I mentioned in my previous post here and here, I chose DHL to send my container to the U.S. It has a good network here in the [...]

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