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I have this set of magnificent maps and guides all in German of The Rhine cycle route. The question is at 1kg do I take them tomorrow? The route is in my GPS and on my Eee ( the iPad is staying at home since it’s incapable of syncing the Etrex and geotagging my camera 🙁 )
So I should be OK but then…. >
this is also an experiment in posting via another Posterous http://posterous.com account I’ve set up.
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First experiment with the new Guardian WordPress plugin. Bit disappointing in most of the articles I selected were not available to be published 🙁
However, it was easy to set up and for me to login to The Guardian and get an API key, it certainly seems to be a better way for MSM to go than The Times locked in its paywall castle!
I was hoping to include an article about the Tour de FranceI was hoping to see a bit of the Tour de France on their rest day in Morzine. However, I think I will be away before the 12th July, as I hope to start my first day of cycling back from my apartment in Les Gets via The Rhone & Rhine valleys!
Which reminds me I had better check my insurance 🙂
Note added 4 July: The Guardian seem to be able to edit the post after I have published it! Changing the title and removing my content!!!
I’ve now restored it to the original and added this note
7 July The Guardian are still playing about with this post, changing the title from what I can see even with latest version of plug in.
8 July Finally gave up on the plugin, deleted it and then it proceeded to delete the whole article! I’ve restored it and removed all their stuff
VERY DISAPPOINTING plugin it behaves more as malware than anything useful!
Last night I tried to set up another Posterous account so I could post here. However, apparently you can only post to one site with each email address so no joy with that then, as I already use Posterous with geoffjones.net !
I’m now trying to use the iPhone wordpress app, which rather annoyingly just lost my words of wisdom whilst trying to attach a photo! Rule number one from the past, save and then save again before attempting anything!
Haven’t succeeded in adding any links yet 🙁
So here is my view from Wetherspoons at Gatwick (must save NOW)
Today whilst researching my upcoming bike ride down the length of The Rhine I came across the website Bikely, this amazingly allows you to trace over Google Maps and generate gpx files that my Garmin understands. I can thus plan the whole 1000mile route and let the Garmin Etrex behave like a TomTom device to tell me where to go. Bikely can even follow roads and thus create really accurate files.
An even better discovery was that the user “MockCyclist” had even created a map with the whole route plotted. A fantastic starting point, I’m now modifying his file to cut out the ferries that MockCyclist had used in Rotterdam and some other points on The Rhine.
I’m going to start from where I finished last year, My apartment in Les Gets, probably around the 7th July. I have to be back for my birthday on the 28th!
Here is the route so far:-
All 1000 miles of it!
