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Getting Into Kayaking - Part 2

Getting Into Kayaking - Part 2

In Part 1 I wrote a about the 4 common types of kayaks you'll come across as a beginner, how they differ and what they are used for. Once you've got a kayak sorted you also need other equipment. While you could do without it, a buoyancy aid is recommended.

Getting Into Kayaking - Part 1

Getting Into Kayaking - Part 1

Though I've kayaked before while on holiday, I've never considered myself a kayaker or even owned my own kayak before. I've not really had any friends showing any interest and thought that the UK weather is terrible for it. Recently I've been thinking about it a lot and figured I

Meet Octopus

I've been very busy migrating all my stuff to a new Raspberry Pi server. I've named it Octopus, it's going to be a busy little server and in my head I imagine it having all those tentacles flailing to perform all the work. I just finished getting the blogging software

OwnCloud Sync Client "No keychain service available" Error

I recently installed the Ubuntu 17.10.1 (Artful Aardvark) flavour named Xubuntu [https://xubuntu.org/]. For those of you that are unaware, besides the default Ubuntu release there are several flavours that are built with alternative desktop environments. Amongst these are Budgie, KDE, LXDE, MATE and Xfce. I host

TransPortugal Off Road Motorcycle Trip - 2016

While doing research for the Morocco trip we did in 2014, we came across something called the TransPortugal trail. This is a, mostly off road, route that goes all the way from the north of Portugal to the south. There are a few different routes taken by other people that

Digital Scale For Mixing E-Liquid

I vape and I mix my own e-liquids. When I started doing this I used a small digital scale that I previously bought to weigh coins with. I discovered that the scale I had would auto power off after a few minutes. Not only that, if the increase in weight

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 14

Friday, 10 October 2014 It was a rough journey, but we arrived safely to the UK. We had some breakfast, packed up and, once docked, disembarked and went through customs. In the customs queue, the last view we had of our boat: Right after going through customs I stopped and

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 13

Thursday, 9 October 2014 The weather was still a bit wet, but we had a ferry to catch so we set off for Bilbao. At least it wasn't raining as fiercely as it did the day before and it wasn't as cold either. Here we stopped for a break and

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 12

Wednesday, 8 October 2014 Well, there's not much to say about Wednesday really. This was our slog day up through Spain. Great small twisty roads turned into larger straighter roads turned into motorways and the riding became more boring the further north we went except for the occasional good stretch

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 11

Tuesday, 7 October 2014 Waking up and hearing the sea is always a pleasant thing for me, this morning was one like that. The weather looked great and the sleep had done me well, but I was stiff and really sore, particularly my shoulder and neck. We packed up and

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 10

Monday, 6 October 2014 We woke up to a great day, it was going to be fairly hot with sparse clouds and just a bit of a breeze. The room we were in was at the very top of the hotel and we had a key for the terrace. We

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 9

Sunday, 5 October 2014 Today the plan was to keep going north again so that we are closer to the ferry when the time comes to cross. We decided that we want to take scenic routes on roads that would also be fun to ride. We picked the roads as

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 8

Saturday, 4 October 2014 We slept well and had a good breakfast before we set off for the day. This was more or less our halfway mark and we decided it would be a laundry day for us. This meant that we'd do less riding today, really just a 'short'

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 7

Friday, 3 October 2014 After the previous day's difficult riding we were in the mood for an easy day. We decided to go look at three artworks in the desert, all created by the same bloke, but on the way to the first one we realised it's going to involve

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 6

Thursday, 2 October 2014 The next day I was a bit tender, I should know better than to mix beer and wine to start with, but hindsight is, as we all know, a luxury. We were getting into the habit of getting up at 8am by now, not really a

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 5

Wednesday, 1 October 2014 Today it was time to get serious and put on some knobblies! Locky had seen a tyre changing place in Midelt on the way through so we rode back into Midelt. I was insistent that the tyre place we use should have a machine rather than

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 4

Tuesday, 30 September 2014 We slept quite well despite the call to prayer going out early morning, it's loud and annoying when you want to sleep, sounds like a typical school PA system. We don't even understand what it is that they're whining about, but usually it only goes on

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 3

Monday, 29 September 2014 The breakfast wasn't anything as good as the dinner we had the previous night, but I wouldn't be complaining if I knew how boring breakfast in Morocco would be. After all, you can't really moan much about croissants with butter and jam, but I think the

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 2

Sunday, 28 September 2014 The reality that we were away from home now started to set in. The weather was definitely warmer than it was in the UK and we were looking forward to getting on the road towards Morocco. Had some breakfast on the ferry, myself opting for a

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Day 1

Saturday, 27 September 2014 Our ferry was leaving from Portsmouth at 08:15 and we had to be there at least 45 minutes before. We both had to leave home quite early to get to the ferry on time. The 27th was my wedding anniversary so I spent some time

Morocco Motorcycle Trip Report - Preparation

This is a repost of a ride report a friend and I did for a motorcycle trip to Morocco over September to October 2014. My friend goes by the nickname of Locky, he's a locksmith, been riding for many years (read: he's old), a good laugh and a great travel

It's Alive! It's Alive!

I finally, after about 3 days of messing around fixing little problems, managed to get the blog up and running. The blog runs Ghost [http://www.ghost.org/] which is opensource [https://opensource.org/osd-annotated] software specifically for blogs and by intention nothing else. I first looked to use WordPress