Every OS Explorer map area, eventually, hopefully, and related insights into my life.
OS Explorer map 152, Newport & Pontypool – I own this map, but had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 11th February 2022. Google Maps location links: Newport, Caerleon Travelling to this map area Any hypothetical particularly attentive blog readers may be familiar with my friend group from my time … Continue reading 152: Newport & Caerleon
OS Explorer map OL45, The Cotswolds: Burford, Chipping Campden, Cirencester & Stow-on-the-Wold – I own this map and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 21st February 2020. This post concerns a weekend I spent in the Cotswolds, doing the catering for an effective altruism retreat. Attentive readers may recall that … Continue reading OL45: the Cotswolds
OS Explorer map 215, Newtown & Machynlleth: Llanfair Caereinion – I do not own this map, and had not visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 25th May 2019. Over the long weekend of 25th-27th May 2019, my friend Climbing Programmer and I played a somewhat odd game. The basic premise of … Continue reading 215: Caersws & Llanwnnog
OS Explorer map 315, Carlisle: Brampton, Longtown & Gretna Green – I have visited this map area before starting this blog, but do not own the map. Visited again for this post 22nd July 2018. (This is the thirteenth of fourteen posts concerning my July 2018 trip to Harris and Galloway with my Cambridge friends.) … Continue reading 315: Carlisle
OS Explorer map 349, Falkirk, Cumbernauld & Livingston: Linlithgow, Bathgate & Kilsyth – I own this map, and had visited it before starting this blog. Visited again for this post 5th July 2018. (This is the third of fourteen posts concerning my July 2018 trip to Harris and Galloway with my Cambridge friends.) From Ravensworth, … Continue reading 349: Slamannan
OS Explorer map 299, Ripon & Boroughbridge: Easingwold – I do not own this map, and had not visited before starting this blog. Visited for this post 8th January 2018. So. [1] My last post ended with the seven of us in a car on the way down from Scotland, where we'd been for the … Continue reading 299: Boroughbridge
OS Explorer map 305, Bishop Auckland: Spennymoor, Newton Aycliffe, Sedgefield & Crook – I have not visited this map before starting this blog, and do not own the map. Visited for this post 8th January 2018. (Our video of the ASNC Trip is on YouTube on the ASNC Society’s channel – the section corresponding to … Continue reading 305: Escomb
OS Explorer map OL43, Hadrian’s Wall Haltwhistle & Hexham – I do not own this map, but have visited it before starting this blog. Visited for this post 4th January 2018. This post continues directly from the previous one, with my carful of six people driving northwards on our way to Scotland for the ASNC … Continue reading OL43: Hexham
Visiting all the maps! 