JC's Traveblog

Liz to the rescue! Having provided us with an excellent paella yesterday evening, Liz, our neighbour, has provided me with a spare mobile phone. Having destroyed mine  with a hefty dose of Persil Small and Mighty aided buy a Bosch washing machine yesterday, I have now got my SIM card in Liz’s old handset and I’m up and running again. Apart from being able to keep in touch with mater, I’ll be able to Twiitter.

Our ferry is at 1:00 PM tomorrow. That should put us in La Belle France at about 3:30 PM local time. Tomorrow the outlook is, indeed, belle but unfortunately the weather appears to be descending into something rather less than belle for a good chunk of the following week. Drat! Oh well, we’ll just have to try and make the most of it.

This trip will provide a new combination of status updates. For the first time I should have both Twitterability courtesy of Liz’s phone for brief updates and blogability courtesy of the occasional McDonalds McWiFi for more considered ramblings and photographs.

For the interested minority:

Twitter updates are at http://twitter.com/jccurd and are also automatically copied to our home page, http://www.curdhome.co.uk.

Traveblog updates will be here (http://www.curdhome.co.uk/blog) under the category “France, 2009”.

Billy Bailey is mostly loaded. Our car is mostly loaded. We must be mostly ready.

Hopefully we will be bound for Corfu at some ungodly hour (5:55 AM take-off) on Friday morning. On Saturday 23rd May we should join the Explore! group in Corfu town to walk the Corfu Trail, a long distance (220 kms/140 mls) footpath running the length of Corfu island. There are several climbs and descents on the trail, the highest point being about 900 mts/3000 ft.

We won’t be able to resist carrying cameras but we most certainly will be able to resist carting a laptop with us. What, no Traveblog? Fear not. Enter a foray into another weird modern communications technology: Twitter. I have signed up for my Twitter id (@jccurd) and have been practicing. Naturally, with a new (to me) piece of technology goes some new vocabulary. Apparently I’ve been tweeting. Hmm. I have even managed to set up tweeting by SMS text messages from my relatively modern, lightweight mobile phone, which I don’t mind carrying with me. I hope to be tweeting about our progress. Marvellous!

As a consequence, I’ve at last found something more constructive that just introductory blurb to put on our home page. http://www.curdhome.co.uk now comes complete with Twitter updates. Check it out.

Not quite as much fun as blogging but useful nonetheless.