Recent Posts Tagged With 'outdoors'

• The new Glen Coe mountain route

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 17:21 in google, outdoors, scotland, glen coe, google maps bug

  I’ve found other Google Maps mistakes before, but this one is quite fun. Now, while I’m aware Scotland contains many steep mountain passes, that are only just passable in a car I don’t quite think this is one of them. According to ...

• The new Glen Coe mountain route

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 16:21 in google, outdoors, scotland, glen coe, google maps bug

  You take the high road, and I'll take the low road I’ve found other Google Maps mistakes before, but this one is quite fun. Now, while I’m aware Scotland contains many steep mountain passes, that are only just passable in a car I don&...

• Alport Castles

  Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 14:21 in outdoors, walking, google maps, moorland

  Alport Castles Today me and my dad went for a walk in the Peak District, to a part we’ve never been to before. At the bottom of the Snake Pass is Ladybower Reservoir and the Derwent Valley. On the moorlands at the top is a place called Alport C...

• Nice weather for ducks, better weather for fish

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 in Fishing, outdoors, fish, rain, scunthorpe, messingham

  Yesterday me, Amy and her two nephews went fishing at Messingham Sands, a fishing pond outside Scunthorpe. The weather was pretty awful, with a torrential downpour sending us home eventually around 4pm. However, before the intense rain we enjoyed som...

• Fishing

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 10:51 in outdoors

  Me, Amy and her two nephews are fishing. And we’re catching big fish too. Fish are stupid, they swim around under the bank edges, so that’s where you put your hook… and then they bite it, and then you have one. I’ll put some p...

• On the road to nowhere!

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 15:59 in travel, outdoors, weird, map, google maps, google maps bug

  While looking around Google Maps for this area I found a slight mismatch between not only the mapping data and the photograph image, but also between different parts of the photograph imagery. If you’re off down the A1(m) any time soon, watch o...