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The 2014 season begins

116 months ago
The beach by Dungeness lighthouse
After summarising my winter activities and spring plans, I can now update with the good news (for me anyway) after a couple of weeks of long days I took my first long trip, extending my gap between points by almost ten miles. I used a ruler on the map to measure where I could go, and at the time the shortest journey was to Kent as opposite Cheltenham, either Dover (the longest) or Dungeness, which was a lot easier. Photo I plumped for the compromise, still adding more than the...
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Deepest Surrey

143 months ago
A trip from the A25 in Betchworth to Rusper, and return to Dorking. I try and return on a different route to double the map coverage. You can see this trip plotted on a map on the Geo-trips page LinkExternal link . After a while you get to know the good roads, and once checked the personal map see the furthest I can get before it gets dark or I run out of steam. The A25 is a backbone along the North Downs, and alongside the M25 serve to allow...
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Learning as I go along

147 months ago
Seaford Head from Seaford beach
2011 was the first time I started taking photos especially for the Geograph map. I'd already got a library of 10,000 plus digital photos from when I bought the camera in November 2005 and had finished uploading the suitable ones once Streetview allowed me to get the spots correct, I did a few before then but struggled with the buttons and locations and returned to browsing others' photos here until I had another go two years later. After a while of course I noticed the map spread out, but...
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