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Pendeen living

We have moved… We have moved to Pendeen on the north coast of the far west of Cornwall, 7 degrees, or half a time zone west of Ipswich. The house is about 150 years old: a granite tin miner’s cottage with three gardens and the front at the back (it shows its back to the [...]

Chun Quoit and the Straw Dogs farm

In which we make it to Chun Quoit, but not to the Straw Dogs farm Jenny has located the farm where Straw Dogs was made and it is only a few hundred metres away so I set off to walk there, taking in Chun Quoit on the way.  The weather was typical Pendeen – not [...]

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Gozo walks – North out of Victoria to Xaghra

It is quite a way to Xaghra by road but this 20 minute walk will take you there over footpaths and quiet roads. It does involve an over all climb of about 100m and needs some careful route finding at one place. Maps and GPS datums See this other Gozo walk for a brief discussion [...]

Gozo walks – The big rock east of Hondoq c8fd7409015b

Hondoq is a tiny bathing beach at the east end of Gozo.  A short canoe paddle east of the beach is a big rock about 100m off a tiny, apparently inaccessible beach. This easy to follow 1km walk leads from a reasonable parking space above Hondoq down the the tiny beach. Maps Malta Environment and [...]

This is going to be the sailing bit of the blog…

Waking up www.yourboatpix.co.uk for the summer! This is going to be my sailing blog.  We sold the Witchfinder last summer and need to think about a new boat.  In the meantime I am going to re-start posting “Is this you?” posts on scuttlebutt.

Bike

Fixed wheel, straight bars, lights and a single brake. In summer has free wheel with slightly higher gearing, drop bars, no lights and two brakes.

Witchfinder’s 2006 summer cruise

In which Witchfinder has three glorious weeks with moderate winds and one with winds verging on too strong, hosts a hitch-hiking pigeon, boxes the western Channel, and gets an unsolicited visit from a lifeboat. As in the past few years we had four weeks for our summer cruise. We wanted to get as far as [...]