Dunbar Walk

Took the short train journey to Dunbar for a short walk along the coast. Lovely sunny day and Dunbar looking fabulous as usual. 

 

Mountain Bike Orienteering at Whitelee Wind Farm

I was cold wet and windy - perfect conditions for a wind farm on elevated rough land south west of Glasgow. A three hour Mountain Bike event in the massive windfarm with nice easy gravel tracks between the various turbines. Navigation was straightforward which I'm not complaining about! Thought about an early finish a few times but the weather eased periodically and I made good progress picking off the controls thinking at one point I'd get round them all with plenty of time to spare. There was a long and rough section near the end however that slowed me right down and ended up running out of time. Finished 4 minutes over the time limit having visited all controls. Score wise the better decision would have been to skip up to the last 3 controls and get back in time even though they were only quite short detours.

Great fun. Worked pretty hard at the end to try to finish quickly.

Interesting place with a surprising number of people out for a walk amongst the wind turbines. The visit centre and cafe was quite nice.

 

Blue Beard at the Royal Lyceum

Theatre trip for Cherry and Colin to see Blue Beard. A strange show but entertaining with great musical performances.

 

Clear Out and Lagan Valley

On Friday I meet up with Tim, Glenn and Mark at Tuk Tuk's for Thai food and drinks in the Imperial Bar.

On Saturday Michael arrived on his day trip and after overnight ferry on Friday and the same planned for Saturday night. We made good progress with more clearout and filling a skip with junk in the house. We met with Liz at the Golf Club for dinner in the evening.

On Sunday I drove to the Titanic area and had a nice long cycle along the Lagan Valley as far as Sprucefield. For the most part very nice riverside path with interesting wetland and parkland. Punctured on the way back but a reasonably quick and successful repair. Also had a slow explore around the Titanic zone.

After lunch at Nandos decided to make the most of the clear skies and headed to Divis and Black Mountain - the other big hills overlooking Belfast just South of Cavehill. Parked at the National Trust carpark up in the moorland and then cycled to the two summits.

On Monday I took a bundle of stuff to the charity shop and with the weather not good went spinning in the gym rather than outside. 

On Tuesday did a road trip along the east coast to Newcastle via the Portaferry to Strangford Ferry. It all looked a little bleak under the grey skies.

Final furniture collection by Restore on Wednesday and the ferry and drive home.