the algarve, suunto

Wow, its already the eleventh of June. That means I'll be thirty six tomorrow. Fuck, that's old. Anyway, its Monday, and we're going to the Algarve on Saturday :-) Two weeks of sun and fun and no online state. No laptops, no email, no blogging, no keeping a finger on the pulse. Three or four years ago you wouldn't have gotten me to do something like that without at least bringing my laptop. Five or six years ago you wouldn't have gotten me on holiday for so long in the first place. So this is all going to be something of a shock to the system :-) Hell, my AOL work account may not EVER have seen two weeks of inactivity - in eleven years! Time for a break then. So we're going to The Algarve. According to the Wikipedia, Algarve means "the West" in Arabic. Does that mean that "The Algarve" means "The The West"?

I picked up my new watch (Thanks Anna & Mum & Dad & Gaby & Andreas!) and took it for a spin to Kew over the weekend. It was pretty good actually, though the tracks it rendered of our progress were a little out of sync I think. It seems like every second waypoint logged (when logging where you've been as opposed to where you're going) was shifted about 100m to the west. I don't know why yet, but there's time to find out. I'll take some readings in Portugal and figure out what's going on there.