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On Saturday afternoon Lydia and I thought we’d go for a bit of a drive - it was fairly aimless, but ended up being quite long and adventurous…

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Photosynth (a cool Microsoft Labs product which stiches collections of photos together in a 3D panorama) have recently opened up to allow people to submit their own content. I just uploaded a series of photos from Djemaa el Fna at dusk from a restaurant balcony (see video of the square at night in a previous post) - it took a few attempts to get 100% of the photos stitched together (it does it automatically but some photos don’t always match up - you have to edit your submission, remove the images and reupload).

The final result is pretty cool. I think it gives a really good feel for the square and the people in it. To view it click here.

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I took loads of photos in Morocco so it will take a while before they are ready to put up on this site. However, in the meantime, here’s a video I took using Lydia’s camera while in the Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakech. The square is amazing - by day its full of orange juice vendors, snake charmers and henna tattoo artists, but at dusk, the smoke starts rising and the drums start drumming and it becomes alive. Its amazing to watch and experience, and hopefully the video gives a tiny hint of that. For more on the square, go here.

I’ve been playing around with the Garmin Nuvi 300 trying to get Morocco maps on it. There is a guy who’s made the maps freely available here. I got the Nuvi 300 from Amazon (at the moment it seems they don’t have it in stock) - partly for the bargain price and partly because i knew the Morocco map only works on Garmin.

The Nuvi 300 seems to be really good and I’m very happy with it so far - I used it to find out where we were in Epping Forest while mountain biking the other day, and it works from within my office. Its very fast finding satellites (using its internal aerial) and is very light and compact compared to the TomTom’s I have used in the past. Interface-wise, its harder to get to advanced functionality (more…)

I’ve finally managed to compile some of my photos from the trip I did to Spain with Lydia and her Mum. We started in Seville the first day, then hired a car from the second day onwards (driving in the ancient city with a large car is not recommended!). The weather was very hot (40 degrees Celcius) so it was nice to be air conditioned some of the time (we followed the local example of taking afternoon siestas). We then headed down to the Atlantic coast stopping at Cadiz, (more…)