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Month: November 2015

  • La Grotte Aux Fées – second trip

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes15A Cave exploration is really fun. You go from an autumn day, lie down and pull yourself forwards with your elbows and push yourself with your feet. You turn your head sideways so that it fits through. The gravel moves under your hands and body and eventually you are through in to…

  • Cave Exploration in Autumn – Grottes Aux Fées – Vallorbe

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen the temperature drops and we find ourselves living beneath the clouds for weeks or even months going up to the mountains to get above them is always pleasant. Another option is to take advantage of the cool temperatures to explore caves where the conditions are constant year round. For Halloween a…

  • 48 hour digital detox

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople like me do not need a 48 hour digital detox. I spend time online socialising and finding people with whom to do interesting activities. With one group of people I would scuba dive every Sunday that I was not working. With another group of people I went canyoning and explored rivers…

  • The idiocy of the Hashtag

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    Reading Time: 7 minutesEvery day I am reminded of the Idiocy of the Hashtag. Twitter is a conversational medium where the more we converse the more addictive the social network becomes. Every single @ reply was a reaction to what we said or shared. Connections between users were strong and so the network effect took…

  • The Nanowrimo Challenge

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Nanowrimo Challenge is interesting for me to challenge because I am an introvert. As part of this introversion I like to be concise and to the point. That’ why I like twitter conversations. Why say in one hundred and fourty words what you can say in one hundred and fourty characters?…