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 [...]
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Connectivity
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. [...]
We drove to Snowdonia in North Wales a few days ago (after reading reports of uncharacteristically good weather) in search of a change of scenery for Jess’s birthday, and for some different rock. And different it is! We are camped at the entrance to Llanberis pass and the scene is 100 % alpine: where climbs [...]
We’ve been hangin’ at Stanage in the Peak District national park, located about 260 km north-west of London, for about five weeks now. We’ve resided at various campsites, paddocks and caravan parks (for power), and even spent one night alongside a road in a dark, shadowy forest when there was nowhere else to stay during [...]