Category: Tim’s Adventures
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Dude, Where’s My Tent?
Masirah island sits in the Indian Ocean just off the east coast of Oman. It is around 50 miles long and 10 miles wide. It has a single town called Hilf on its north western coast and little else besides 90 miles of ring road; somewhere off which lies our tent. “Well, the speedo said…
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Expedition Report: 21st Century Altai
Abstract A team of six travelled to the Russian Altai mountains, establishing a base camp in the South Kurai Range and successfully climbing to five summits. All peaks are thought to be first British ascents and it is possible that four of these had not previously been climbed. Some team members also spent a few…
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Cycling Around Masirah Island on Christmas Day
Excitement quickly penetrates lethargy as the alarm sounds early on Christmas morning. Waking swiftly not to open presents but to ensure we have enough time for a 90 mile bike ride. And it wasn’t actually an alarm that woke us first but the sound of fishermen and the cacophony of seabirds outside the tent we’ve…
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2010 Review – A Statistical Analysis of My Website
With the aid of WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics, both wonderfully helpful and free bits of software, I’ve had a quick look at some of the stats for my site in 2010. “Statistical analysis” might be a bit much but here are some of the numbers… Most read articles 5 Health Benefits of Cold Water…
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2010 Review – A Year of Adventures
How has your year been? As another precious one slides by, I’ve found myself, as ever, wondering how it’s passed so quickly. So, to make myself feel better, I cast my mind back to the adventures I’ve had over the past twelve months. And it’s worked a treat. What a year! This is the first…
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Why Run the Tube? / If Not With Words
When I tell people that my girlfriend and I have been spending many of the last eight months’ precious weekends running tens of miles along transport lines through Greater London, they invariably ask “Why?”. If not with words then with silence. Well, I don’t have an answer that is both meaningful and succinct but I…
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Day One in the Desert
Question: How good is a spatula at digging a car out of sand? Answer: Better than a coolbox lid but not not as good as Tupperware It was fine last night. The black-top had turned to dirt-track and the dirt-track had turned to sand-track but we weren’t too bothered because we knew there was a…
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A Day in the Desert – Sharqiya Sands in Pictures
I keep having to pinch myself over here in Oman as a reminder that I am not on holiday and that these amazing places I visit are done so on my weekend, just a few hours’ drive from Muscat. One of the highlights of my week is downloading the photos from the previous weekend for…
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Off to the Dhofar Mountains
One of the slight quirks of life in Oman is that you never quite know when public holidays will occur. They’re only announced a few days in advance. Thus it was only last Wednesday – with the announcement of four days off work for Eid al Adha – that Laura and I could properly commit…
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Some stats from Running the Tube
Earlier this year, my girlfriend Laura and I completed our challenge to run the length of every Tube line in London. Here are some numbers from the event: Lines Run: 12 Duration of Challenge: 7 months Average cost of run: 75p? Runs started outside the M25 and off the A-Z: 1 (Central Line) Physio visits:…
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On Sakhalin, in Tokyo
At the end of last month I visited the far eastern Russian island of Sakhalin on a recce for Sarah Outen’s London to London: via the World expedition. I also hopped across to Japan too, though unfortunately not on the ferry I had planned to use. Here is the account I kept whilst out in…