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  • Solar Watches and Spain

    Solar Watches and Spain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne nuissance of most modern smart watches is that you must charge then once a day, once a week, or once a month. When you’re in Spain though, with a solar watch things change. At first you go from “26 days of battery remaining” to “36 days of battery remaining”, to “39…

  • StepsApp

    StepsApp

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and taking steps could be seen as boring. It’s something we do every day, without thinking about it. At conferences we can easily take 20,000 steps a day, when we’re standing for the entire day, with barely any opportunities, or need to sit, except when eating or getting from A to…

  • Vue De Méditerranée

    Vue De Méditerranée

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  • By The Sea

    By The Sea

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes we walk by the sea, after spending months by a big lake. Living by a lake, and the sea are similar.

  • Seaside walk

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  • Nervous Energy

    Nervous Energy

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t know whether I’m nervous or anxious about driving from 11-13 hours almost non stop tomorrow. In the past I have driven from Switzerland to Spain, without stopping. In the past we had to stop to refuel but not anymore, not with modern cars. We have to stop for toilet breaks…

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…

  • The Casio GBD-200-1

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Casio GBD-200-1 and similar watches is a watch that counts steps and tracks runs. It communicates with the Casio Move app to provide you with a log of your steps, runs and progress. From what I gather it uses the phone to plot the GPS points of your run. No HR…

  • Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you considered brushing shoes and mindfulness? I ask because as I have played with the brush, to clear dirty mud off my shoes I have noticed that this is a time consuming task that always takes several minutes, if not half an hour to complete. People stigmatise leaving a muddy trail…

  • One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

    One Year With The Garmin Instinct Solar

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesI bought the Garmin Instinct Solar because I was interested to see how the Solar option works. As with most watches the solar panels take several hours to recharge the watch, even during summer heatwaves. The Solar part is great, if you’re in Spain and leave your watch to recharge in the…