Posted in London, Mobile Internet on Oct 22nd, 2008
Once again we’re in London, and again plagued with connectivity issues. Dear readers, never use the UK 3’s 3G (dis)service; it’s unequivocally shit! An Eifel tower is planted right next to us, marred with comm. stuff and yet there’s limited/no service!? And the guys in the 3 stores have zero technical knowledge—my grandma would be [...]
Posted in Climbing, Lofoten Islands, Norway, Wales on Aug 7th, 2008
Vestpillaren: the most classic rock climb on the islands. It takes a fairly straight line up a 470m high, clean granite buttress called Presten, which rises almost straight out of the ocean, in 12 pitches. We were always vaguely thinking to do this climb in our time on Lofoten but once we saw the cliff, [...]
As soon as the children’s song ‘incey wincey spider’ crawled into my mind and stuck, it was time to leave Sweden and the other disturbingly catchy nursery rhymes, despite the lovely company and much needed break from the van. So, as the beautiful Swedes wished us luck, we apprehensively left for Norway from Lomma, Sweden [...]
Our van had its first breakdown the other day…let’s hope it’s not a midlife crisis brewing. Backtracking a little: on Monday a week ago our climbing friend Steve once again joined us in Wales. Jess decided to take the opportunity to go shopping without my sighs of boredom for company, leaving the boys to climb [...]
The weather in North Wales has reverted to its notorious reputation: shit. The weekend was sodden with heavy rain and wild wind (Trudy, your SES pager would be constantly beckoning ‘tree down, tree down!!’). Ol reckons he’s acquiring sea legs as the van is being thrashed around by the wind. It’s so chillingly loud and [...]
Posted in England, Mobile Internet, UK on Jun 18th, 2008
Following weeks of almost nil cyber-ness, we have satellite internet connection! And it’s been one hell of a battle to arrive at this point. Naively, we hoped that the 3G network might help us stay connected with the world; however, it turns out that Three’s 3G coverage and their technical support just don’t cut it. [...]