Loganlea Reservoir is in the background

No, really. A popular facebook group just now is “Students – working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 weeks a year”. Now my revision is not quite as intense as this and I start revising well in advance. With no classes and no travelling into classes there seems to a bit of free time (no point over-working, right?!).

What have I been doing? Some running (great for visiting people unannounced), frisbee at Glasgow Green, making some birthday presents and hill walking. On Monday I went to Pentland Peaks (near Edinburgh) for the first time with two friends. We started at Flotterstone and intended to do this route but this is not quite the route we followed. The printable version of the page had a map even worse than the one on that page. We called it our “postage stamp map”. We overshot the turning back distance by some considerable distance so it was quite a long walk, at least 6.5 hours at around 3mph.

Lovely place to walk at, the first section of the walk was the rambling equivalent of a rollercoaster. The path just went up and down for ages. The weather held out and I even managed to get sunburn but I’m not quite sure how!

I’ve now discovered the rather excellent Multimap which gives you access to OS Maps for free. Here is a link to Ranger’s Office at Flotterstone.

SECTION TO FINISH:

Today I bought something that has tempted me for a while, a Bluetooth GPS Receiver. It works with my PDA. Setting up. Model. NoniGPS.