tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272341782024-03-13T00:56:43.608+00:00LondonbackpackerFlaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.comBlogger405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-19353200159070346252014-03-06T09:53:00.000+00:002014-03-08T10:27:36.685+00:00Rotherhithe Ramble<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another day, another urban walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This time a local one, around Rotherhithe and the Surrey Docks (or Surrey Quays as its now known)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the route following the Thames Path, and has a lot of historical interest in the area, from the place where the Mayflower first set sail from to the first <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">tunnel known to have been constructed successfully underneath a navigable river.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Although this side of the docks has been re-developed, it is mainly with housing and not the towering buildings of Canary Wharf and this helps to show how big the docks really were.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Rotherhithe Tunnel Shaft No.2</b></i></span></td></tr>
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Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-35863943664172716072014-02-25T19:29:00.000+00:002014-03-08T09:46:35.442+00:00Hampstead Heath<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">On Monday and the weather looking good, I decided to recce out a new photowalk.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Using the 'new' London Overground I managed to get from South London to Hampstead in just over an hour, if I had of made better connections I think I could of done it in less time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">The Map shows the route I walked over the Heath, I know it looks messy but that is because I was looking for places of interest, which there are plenty and probably mean that 2 walks could be done in this area.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I need to refine the route and work it down to a reasonable size.</span><br />
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Go Outdoors have launched a new walking blog award, there is a shortlist of fifteen blogs and I have been luck to be one of the fifteen.<br />
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Its a great honour to be on a list of blogs that include Chris Townsend, Keith Foskett, David Lintern and Alan Sloman.<br />
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All these write and promote that outdoors much better that me.
The winner will be decided via a poll on the <a href="http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/blog-awards-2014">Go Outdoors</a> website, I encourage everybody to pop across and vote. If you choose to vote for me, then a BIG thank you but if not then vote for one of the BIG little guys.Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-159563840743230142014-02-08T18:49:00.000+00:002014-02-08T18:49:19.173+00:00Cigar Box GuitarsBuilds no. 1 & 2
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<center><i>The Heisenberg & Color Bearer</i></center>Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-7036025808954903642013-10-27T15:20:00.000+00:002013-10-27T15:20:08.316+00:00Storm Coming<center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonbackpacker/10501794065/" title="Storm Coming by londonbackpackr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7345/10501794065_87316e597e_z.jpg" width="640" height="432" alt="Storm Coming"></a></center>Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-29698833602495223662013-07-28T16:07:00.000+01:002013-07-28T16:07:08.708+01:00Photowalk (Docklands)Yesterday I did another Photowalk; this time it was a check out a route for a possibly walk around Docklands in London.
As I didn't really know where the route would go I wanted a way of mapped it as I walked and this is where <a href="http://www.shareyouradventure.com/">Social Hiking</a> and <a href="http://www.viewranger.com/en-gb">Viewranger</a> came to the rescue.
I can't say I fully understand how it works but viewranger sends beacons from your smartphone which are picked up by social hiking and then add the beacons to a map.
Social hiking can also add tweets and photographs to the map, I was more interested in getting the photographs on the map so, I could see the places of interest that I passed.<br />
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Below is the map that was created on social hiking.<br />
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The beacon's are sent at roughly 5 minute intervals, so in a couple of places it look like I have walked across water but this is probably because I have moved around the body of water quicker than the beacons were sent.
The map was updating live all the time but with out the photographs being added as I was taking these on a proper camera and not a phone, (if the photographs were taken on the same phone as the beacons are sent form they would appear live too).
When I got home and updated the photographs to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonbackpacker/">Flickr</a> the social hiking software was able to see them and then add them to the map.<br />
Hand drawn Google map of the route
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Chameleon 5 GTX are a very different shoe to the wrap slams, the GTX come with a Gore-Tex membrane and something I've not heard of before; the aegis microbe shield, the swing tab describes the aegis </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">microbe shield</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as:- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shoes weigh about the same as the wrap slam; around 510g, not the lightest hiking shoe but not the heaviest either and lighter than a leather boot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shoe is made up of suede leather and mesh, with a rubber rand on the toe front to protect against knocks, a vibram sole which looks to have a deeper cut tread than the wrap slams and a bellow tongue, along with metal hook and lacing eyelets, which I prefer rather than the laces attaching to the the shoe material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also an external heel stability arm which aims to help on uneven ground, there is also a thin anti-bruise foot plate which runs the length of the shoe and aims to help when carrying a pack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the third pair of Merrell's I've had and as usual, they come up a half size smaller than my usual size of 11.5, so that a size 12 give me a correct fit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far I have put around 10-12 miles on these shoes; mainly in an urban environment and they have proved to be pretty comfortable although with any shoe that has a waterproof membrane, my feet did feel a little hot at the end of a walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll continue to wear the shoes over the next few months and will have a fuller report then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These shoes were supplied free of charge by Merrell and are available to buy at <a href="http://www.fitnessfootwear.com/" target="_blank">Fitnessfootwear</a>.</span><br />
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Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-46562357198213213742012-09-30T12:03:00.001+01:002012-09-30T12:03:16.550+01:00Almost two years<div><p>Well I got almost two years out of the Merrell slam wrap trainers before killing them</p>
<p>I've worn these trainers pretty much everyday in that time, this includes my six mile round trip to work five days a week and all my urban walks in that time.</p>
<p>The main part of the trainers are find, with hardly any wear, it's just the soles that have worn out.</p>
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Well the film is finally being release at the end of the month.<br />
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Be aware that there is a lot of Cockney and swearing, so if Cockney or swearing offends you <u>DON'T</u> play the trailer.<br />
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To be honest, it was a bit of an anticlimax as the runner went pass in a flash. There were a few other vehicles that went pass, mainly from the sponsors.<br />
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This year the project runs from 1st July to 31st August; this is a fuzzy month which allows the photogrpher to start at any time within these date but still have a month to complete the project.<br />
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I did this project in 2010 with <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11264696/Elephant's%20in%20London.pdf">Elephant's in London</a>, I have done one again this year and it's along the same lines as my previous one.<br />
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This year's SoFoBoMo is called London Calling and can be see <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11264696/low-res.pdf">here</a>Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-49829912925867972312012-07-01T23:46:00.000+01:002012-07-01T23:46:13.164+01:00Why I Love London<center><table style="width: auto;"><tbody>
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<i>This very old tree is reputed to be one of the mulberry trees commissioned to be planted by King James I who wanted to set up his own English silk industry. However silk moth caterpillars feed on the white mulberry and the trees the King was sold were black mulberries.</i><br />
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<center><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/1bhAr4gqCX6Vwhbv0u6GLPzDbKG70KWwGEB27pkndfM?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cCINsmtkVyU/T9xvlPhFqXI/AAAAAAAACgU/7G8rVHFzFdU/s400/P1020664.jpg" height="321" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"></table></center><i>Ruins of Lesnes Abbey at Abbey Wood. The skyscrapers of London Docklands are visible in the distance.</i><br />
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<center><table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/esVf59lupgsawQjZMikrVfzDbKG70KWwGEB27pkndfM?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_WzBygj7c5E/T9xvnY2t06I/AAAAAAAACgk/8lIddiGdWjw/s640/P1020696.jpg" height="640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right"></table></center><i>A dead oak trunk carved with a "green man" figure.</i>Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-17085574231235479242012-06-08T18:01:00.001+01:002012-06-08T18:01:30.098+01:00One for kindle owners<object width="570" height="321"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSiAg4GOIq4?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zSiAg4GOIq4?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570" height="321" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>Flaneurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16847117291481143793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27234178.post-61356710858267007512012-06-07T11:47:00.000+01:002012-06-07T11:47:43.579+01:00RIPIt seems as though the Outdoorbloggers forum has finally had it day and has expired.<br />
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If you weren't a regular or don't even know what it was, it was a forum set up circa 2007 for new bloggers to have a place to ask questions and get feedback on setting up blogs and general chit-chat about the outdoors.<br />
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In the early days it did have a big core group of users and was a pretty active site but over the last 18 months/2 years very few people were using it, I guess this was because more people were happier to use places like Facebook and Twitter for their conversations.<br />
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Its a shame that it just disappeared; as there was some good stuff on there and may have been worth saving and archiving somewhere.<br />
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On a brighter note; I have updated the blogroll, I have removed some of the blogs there don't exist anymore and have added some new one's. The new one's have <a><img border="0" src="http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8557/1new4brm7.gif" /></a> along side them.<br />
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