It's a Mini Adventure

Yeah OK, OK, that's the ad slogan for the Mini, but there IS going to be a mini adventure of sorts this weekend...

...I was gonna blog on the title of "Crazy Kids" after last night's experience in the dojo... where Sensei's first comment was "kids! tsk" and he rolled his eyes, only to have a lesson with some new faces, one of which was a 7 year-old lad with what I can only guess was ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). Man, I thought I was random, but this guy... whoah... after 15 minutes of laughing, titting about and making sound effects with every move, you could see Sensei's mood reach, what can only be safely called, "point break"... which was a good film, incidently. But anyway, like I say, I was gonna say all that but I won't...

Instead... it's off to "The Valleys" for some "Mountain Mayhem" this weekend...

...or in other words heading off to Abergavenny, Wales for a weekend with the lads; Buggy and Hovercraft racing.

No paintballing though :( I've never done paintball before, so that will have to wait. The groom-to-be didn't want us shooting him in the tackle or anything so he chickened out.

And talking of chickening out, who's the only one of a group of 9 to be going there on the Friday night to check out the local area and get some biking done on the Saturday morning? Well, I figured, you can't go to Wales and not get up in the hills or take the bike - and if it means going on me jack, then so be it.

It's actually really exciting as I've only ever been to the Black Mountains once (it was VERY foggy and I bumped into the SAS on exercise) and spent a very long day in the SONY factory at Bridgend... so to see Wales will be good to satisfy my modest travelling appetite. Maybe this is the start of greater things... more getting away from it all...

So if anyone knows any good pubs in Abergavenny and/or any fairly light bike trails (hardtail and no SPDs) then let me know :) I've been to the MBWales site... but it looks like you have to do a bit of research...

German Para Boots

Assuming I was going to get muddy this weekend too, I just bought a pair of used German Para Boots - they're soft and supple and someone else has kindly worn them in for me :) I checked them for size, splits, tears, general overall condition etc. and they're bloody perfect. When I go them home, you know what freaked me out...? They've only got my initials in them !!! How freaky is that? :)