The Legend that is….Team GT Condor

As you will be aware from the Blog, Team GT Condor played a significant part in last weekends Glasgow to Edinburgh paddling activities….positive and negative….So this is the Team GT Condor Experience.. 23:30 hours Friday Night Team GT Condor arrive Chez Beaujolais. Alistair, the feral four (children) and the lovely (and also Radiant) Sophie are […]

Cortisone and Beaujolais’s Most Excellent Adventure…Day 2 of the Glasgow Edinburgh

Yesterdays blog terminated just as the cheese arrived. Sadly thereafter Beaujolais’s recollections of the evening are limited. Beaujolais puts this down to the fatigue caused by that days paddling efforts. Sophie, is less charitable, and questions why Beaujolais opened a bottle of vintage port (most ably decanted by Tom of team GT Condor) and…why The […]

Cortisone and Beaujolais’s Bogus Journey- Day 1 of the Glasgow Edinburgh

The Tale of the Glasgow Edinburgh from the Beaujolais (the Magnum is half full) perspective. Thursday evening prior to the race Beaujolais gets ready to greet prodigal little brother Alistair off train. Although the station is only a five minute walk and the train is due in at 22:30, Beaujolais heads into town and waits […]

GB goes all the way (SOLO). The Glasgow Edinburgh a Stop Press.

Time is against me today to give a full round-up of the Glasgow Edinburgh Canoe Marathon (Challenge). But I must make the following comments: 1. Congratulations to all those who took part and those who succeeded in completing the course. 2. A very big thank you to Margaret and Brian Chapman, and all the other […]

Cortisone makes a suggestion that is not helpful

Cortisone reacted badly to yesterdays blog. He was not happy with the fact that I had attended the Dinner on the Glenlee- I think he was a little miffed he did not get an invite, and went so far as to question my commitment to the cause. This is the fellow who went out on […]

3 days to Go to Glasgow Edinburgh Canoe Marathon but 365 days to DW2011

Had a superb night yesterday on the Tall Ship Glenlee berthed on the Clyde in Glasgow. The occasion was the annual dinner of the Society of Mariners and Skippers of the Trades House of Glasgow. As the Skipper of the Good Ship “The Maggie”- my personal name for my Marsport Macros K1, I enjoyed the […]

Some recent pictures

Rumbled at Ratho

Any chance of head getting bigger than my posterior following my Devizes Westminster adventure was destroyed yesterday at a place called Ratho. On the way over to Ratho it was possible that my ego was not quite in phsync with reality. As a newly elevated Division 6 paddler, there was a chance that I underestimated my opposition […]

The Entry

       The Glasgow Edinburgh now only a week away. We are now confident we can paddle the k2 the distance, we have recce’d the portages, Cortisone has sorted the support party, so we should be ok for the race. But no.  We haven’t put an entry in. I have emailed Margaret Chapman today and […]

Deliverance

Da da da da da daa..da da da da da daa…This mornings early morning paddle in the K2 had its moments. Cortisone and I headed to Auchenstarry for breakfast. No thats wrong. We headed to Auchenstarry to practice on the canal in preparation for next weekends Glasgow to Edinburgh Marathon and also to recce the portages- a significant potential challenge with the […]