Travel
Wee touch of landscape
Nov 2nd
As anyone who has been out taking pics with me will tell you, its very very rare I ever bother shooting landscape stuff, just doesn’t really float my boat.
A friend called me up and asked if I fancied a look to Holy Island with him though, and as I had nothing better on I thought it would be worth going even if just for the craic.
Took a few pics on the day, but this is the only one I’m really happy with.
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland
~Shepy
Around the world in 80 tweets
Feb 2nd
A fellow Geordie and twitter user has decided to take on quite a task in the aid of charity, namely to travel around the world (or at least as far as he can manage) using twitter to help him along.
On the 1st of March Paul will leave his home in Newcastle and head out into the wild blue yonder, starting from Newcastle Central station as his blog for the event indicates. Paul will then continue on around the globe, with a hopeful destination of the opposite side of the world in New Zealand, but will restrict himself to offers of accommodation and travel from those kind people on twitter who are following him.
If you want to help out, there are a few ways you can do that:
- Follow him on twitter via @twitchhiker
- Visit twitchhiker.com and learn a bit more about it
- Go and digg the story to help raise awareness.
- Go and upmod it on reddit too.
- Go to the donate page and give anything you can.
- Add a post to your blog to get the word our there if possible.
- …and if you can, offer Paul a bed or travel if you can via twitter :)
~Shepy
Nürburgring 2008 Round Up
Jul 30th
Well, I have finally gotten round to sorting out all the pictures from the Nürburgring and uploaded them to my gallery.
Thankfully this year all of the cars that went out came back in the same condition as they went out in which we were all happy about, especially Martyn. He has had the misfortune of crashing on the ring in the last two years we have been out there. The hotel where we stayed is the Ringhaus, which has the hotel rooms named after corners on the circuit rather than being numbered. In 2006 Martyn was in the Hohe-Acht room and managed to crash on Hohe-Acht on his second lap out around the ring. Last year he was staying in Brünnchen and managed to crash on that corner as well. It had become a bit of a running joke that we were either going to make him stay in a tent, or ask Frank the hotelier to make sure his room was an easy corner or a straight. Thankfully there was no crash at all this year from our group, though there were plenty on the ring during the time we were there, partially because of the number of cars on the track for the BF Goodrich race on the Saturday and partially because of the wet conditions on some of the other days the general public were out on the track.
There were still a few strange goings on while we were out there, such as the decision not to go back to the Ringhaus again next year after a meal we ordered one night took nearly an hour to arrive and wasn’t even what we asked for. Also finding that the linen closet was wide open with a board with all the room keys hanging on it unattended means we will be looking for new accommodation for next year’s trip.
Also in the hotel at the same time as us was a bunch of other U.K. guys who were Audi fanatics, and as Glenn and I rounded one of the corners we spotted one of their cars pulled over at the side of the track with a guy projectile vomiting over the barrier. Thankfully I had camera in hand and managed to grab a quick snap or two of it for mockery purposes back in the hotel later on.
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