Jogle?

[Zog The Undeniable]

Are you having a week off, Rich?

 

[Orienteer]

"Zog The Undeniable" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:40cf2e74.0@entanet...
> Are you having a week off, Rich?

You can read his daily reports at http://www.artybee.net/jogle/

 

[Richard Bates]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:33:01 GMT, "Orienteer"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"Zog The Undeniable" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:40cf2e74.0@entanet...
>> Are you having a week off, Rich?
>
>You can read his daily reports at http://www.artybee.net/jogle/
>
>
Hmmm, as I thought - no messages have been getting through. Odd that.

Anyway, finished yesterday at 18:47. Bought myself a beer with a
Scottish five pound note that I'd saved from JOG to celebrate.
--
Young Musician of the Year 2004 was a fiddle

 

[Ambrose Nankivell]

In news:[email protected],
Richard Bates <[email protected]> typed:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:33:01 GMT, "Orienteer"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Zog The Undeniable" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:40cf2e74.0@entanet...
>>> Are you having a week off, Rich?
>>
>> You can read his daily reports at http://www.artybee.net/jogle/
>>
>>
> Hmmm, as I thought - no messages have been getting through. Odd that.
>
> Anyway, finished yesterday at 18:47. Bought myself a beer with a
> Scottish five pound note that I'd saved from JOG to celebrate.

Well done. What was your favourite bit of the country?

A

 

[Richard Bates]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:37:00 +0100, "Ambrose Nankivell"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Well done. What was your favourite bit of the country?

There wasn't one specific place. I loved the friendliness of the
highlands, the atmosphere of Rannoch Moor, the tranquility of Alston
Moor, the splendour of Clifton, the descent into Chapel-en-le-Frith,
the relaxedness of Glastonbury, the effortlessness of Tissington to
Ashbourne...

I could go on. Almost everywhere had something that will stick in my
memory forever. Very few places gave me a negative feeling (Camborne I
found was a very depressing "hole" but it *was* Sunday). Helmsdale YHA
had a particularly memorable moment but that is totally beyond the
scope of a cycling newsgroup ;-)

For me it was a no-rush journey with the emphasis on seeking out,
exploring and enjoying new places, rather than rushing to impress my
friends with some phenomenal average speed. I did rush a little
towards the very end but that was oddly due to the fact that I was
getting tired.

I would love to return to Scotland again, especially the highlands,
but I would also love to explore southern England again.

It was great to escape the noise of Birmingham City and be alone with
the natural world which I know very little about. I don't know one
bird from another, or one tree from another, but I still enjoyed
admiring and studying them.

I think I would have been just as happy doing it on foot.

I found that writing my journal each night provided me with the focus
needed to get motivated on a couple of occasions.

I took in excess of 800 photographs, a very small selection of which
will take a place in my journal.

--
Young Musician of the Year 2004 was a fiddle

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Richard Bates
('[email protected]') wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:33:01 GMT, "Orienteer"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Zog The Undeniable" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:40cf2e74.0@entanet...
>>> Are you having a week off, Rich?
>>
>>You can read his daily reports at http://www.artybee.net/jogle/
>>
> Hmmm, as I thought - no messages have been getting through. Odd that.
>
> Anyway, finished yesterday at 18:47. Bought myself a beer with a
> Scottish five pound note that I'd saved from JOG to celebrate.

Congratulations!

I have been reading (and much enjoying) your progress reports.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; not so much a refugee from reality, more a bogus
;; asylum seeker

 

[Simonb]

Richard Bates wrote:

> Helmsdale YHA
> had a particularly memorable moment but that is totally beyond the
> scope of a cycling newsgroup ;-)

Oh, go on!