Review of Garmin Forerunner 305
2007-03-09 22:24:33
Hi, finally I bought Forerunner
305. Before I was user of Polar, but I was missing distance feature, so I switched to Garmin
. I’m middle age male in average physical condition (pure amateur).
Installation on PC was fast and easy(MS WinXP). After installation, check Garmin website, I found newer USB drivers and newer version of their Garmin Training Center® software. Menus on device are very good (three different) and they are fully configurable with parameters that you want (also level of details). Other screen are GPS signal, map etc. Your profile could be updated with age, weight, heart zones, more or less it can be full personalized. I installed client for MotionBased, you can use same user as for myGarmin.
And then , heavy rain for last two days and I can’t run …
I’ll continue to write about my usage of this nice device.
I now I’m sick
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Moscow Kremlin
2007-03-09 22:05:43
What about this …
The Moscow
Kremlin
(Russian: Московский Кремль) is a historic fortified complex at the very heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River (to the south), Red Square (to the east) and the Alexander Garden (to the west). It is the best known of kremlins (Russian citadels) and includes four palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. The complex serves as the official residence of the President of Russia.
Coordinates: 55°45′6″N, 37°37′4″E
Moscow Kremlin
Belem Tower, Lisbon
2007-03-09 22:01:35
Most beautiful place I ‘ve ever been
Belém Tower
, or Torre de Belém, pron. IPA: [’toɾ(ɨ) dɨ bɨ’lɐ̃ĩ], is a fortified tower located in the Belém district of Lisbon
, Portugal.
It was built in the early 16th century in the Portuguese late Gothic style, the Manueline, to commemorate the expedition of Vasco de Gama. This defensive, yet elegant construction has become one of the symbols of the city, a memorial to the Portuguese power during the Age of the Great Discoveries. In 1983 it was classified, together with the nearby Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Coordinates: 38°41′29″N, 9°12′57″W
Machu Picchu
2007-03-05 21:03:07
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Piqchu Old Peak; sometimes called the “Lost City of the Incas”) is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft)[1] on a mountain ridge. Machu Picchu is located above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by archaeologist Hiram Bingham who rediscovered it in 1911, and wrote a best-selling work about it. Peru is pursuing legal efforts to retrieve thousands of artifacts that Bingham removed from the site.
Coordinates: 13°09′47″S, 72°32′44″W
Machu Picchu
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Chichen Itza
2007-03-05 21:00:34
Hi,
Chichen Itza (from Yucatec Maya chich’en itza’, “At the mouth of the well of the Itza”) is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization, located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, present-day Mexico.
Chichen Itza was a major regional center in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.
Archaeological data, such as evidence of burning at a number of import
GPS, HP6515 + iGO
2007-03-04 23:11:07
Hi,
I tried HP6515 and iGO maps during my visit to Wien. Overall satisfaction is very good. About maps and devices.
Maps
Maps are really very precise, SW is very fast (I used it in car), streets are updated and it is easy to find location. POI database could be better (updated)
HP6515
Display size is not big enough, battery life is approx. 2h (you should have car charger). You can’t run WM5. Allocate max memory for running maps.
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Borobudur
2007-03-01 21:48:58
Borobudur is a ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. A main dome is located at the center of the top platform. It is surrounded by seventy-two perforated stupas, each containing one sitting Buddha statue.
The monument is both a shrine to the Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. The journey for pilgrims begins at the base of the monument and follows a path circumambulating the monument while ascending to the top through the three levels of Buddhist cosmology, namely, Kamadhatu (the world of desire); Rupadhatu (the world of forms); and Arupadhatu (the world of formless). During the journey, the monument guides the pilgrims through a system of stairways and corridors with 1,460 narrative relief panels on the wall and the balustrades.
Evidence suggests Borobudur was abandoned following the fourteenth cen
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Harimandir Sahib
2007-03-01 21:44:51
Harimandir Sahib or Darbar Sahib (also Hari Mandir, Harimandar and other variants; Punjabi: ਹਰਿਮੰਦਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ or ਹਰਿਮੰਦਿਰ ਸਾਹਿਬ) is the most sacred shrine in Sikhism, located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is widely known as the Golden Temple. Literally, Harimandir means “the Temple of God”, ‘Hari’ being a term for God and ‘Mandir’ meaning Temple. Sikh devotees, for whom the Temple is a symbol of freedom and spiritual independence, come to the Temple from all over the world to enjoy its environs and offer their prayers. In addition, the shrine is increasingly becoming a tourist attraction for visitors from all over the world.
Coordinates in India at 31°37′12″N, 74°52′37″E
Harimandir Sahib
Delphi
2007-03-01 21:40:49
Hi,
Delphi
(Greek Δελφοί — Delphee) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in a valley of Phocis. In ancient times it was the site of the most important oracle, dating into prehistoric times as a site for the worship of Gaia and in classical times, converted to that of the god Apollo.
Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the omphalos (ομφαλός) stone, the centre of Earth and the universe. In the inner hestia (ἑστία), or her hearth, of what would become the Temple of Delphic Apollo (Ἀπόλλων Δελφίνιος — Apollon Delphinios), an eternal flame (άσβεστος φλόγα) burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.
Coordinates: 38°29′N 22°30′E
Delphi
Cologne Cathedral
2007-03-01 21:35:53
Ciao,
The Cologne
Cathedral
(German: Kölner Dom), official name Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria) is one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany and has been Cologne’s most famous landmark since its completion in the late 19th century. The cathedral is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne. Cologne Cathedral is the church with the largest facade (the west or main facade with the twin towers) and remains the second-tallest Gothic structure in the world; only the steeple of the Ulm Münster is higher.
Coordinates: 50.9413° N 6.958° E
Cologne Cathedral
Hagia Sophia
2007-03-12 23:05:35
Hagia Sophia
, (the Church of) Holy Wisdom, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, was an early Christian Church and later an Eastern Orthodox church which was transformed into a mosque in 1453 by the Turks, and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is regularly considered one of the greatest, and most beautiful buildings in history. Its conquest by the Ottomans at the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the great tragedies of Christianity by the Greek Orthodox faithful.
The name comes from the Greek name Ἁγία Σοφία, a contraction of Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, meaning “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”. It is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although it is sometimes called “Saint Sophia” in English, it is not named after a saint named Sophia — the Greek word sofia means “wisdom.”
It was constructed in five years, from 532 to 537, and designed
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Chapel of the Emerald Buddha
2007-03-12 22:59:23
The Emerald
Buddha
(Thai: พระแก้วมรกต - Phra Kaew Morakot, or official name พระพุทธมหามณีรัตนปฏิมากร - Phra Phuttha Maha Mani Ratana Patimakorn) is the palladium of the Kingdom of Thailand, a figurine of the sitting Buddha, made of green jade (rather than emerald), clothed in gold, and about 45 cm tall. It is kept in the Chapel
of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
The Wat Phra Kaew (English Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Thai: วัดพระแก้ว; full official name Wat Phra Sri Rattana Satsadaram, Thai: วัดพระศรีรัตนศาสดาราม) is regarded as the most important Buddhist temple in Thailand. It is located in the historic center of Bangkok (district Phra Nakhon), within the grounds of the Grand Palace.
Coordinates: 13°45′5″N, 100°29′34″E
Chapel of the Emerald Buddha
El Escorial
2007-03-12 21:58:57
The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (in Spanish, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial) is an immense palace, Augustinian monastery, museum, and library complex located at San Lorenzo de El Escorial (also San Lorenzo del Escorial), a town 45 kilometres (28 miles) northwest of Madrid in the autonomous community of Madrid in Spain.
Coordinates: 40.589° N 4.148° W
El Escorial
Museo del Prado
2007-03-12 21:55:05
The Museo del
Prado
is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid. It features one of the world’s finest collections of European art, from the 14th century through the early 19th century. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture, the Museum also have important collections of more than 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and almost 2,000 decorative objects and works of art. Sculpture is represented by more than 700 works and by a smaller number of sculptural fragments. The superb picture gallery consisting of 8,600 paintings is the factor which lends the Museum its world class status. The Prado undisputedly has the world’s finest collections of works by Spain’s Diego Velázquez and Francisco Goya, as well as of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (a personal favorite of King Philip II of Spain). The museum also has excellent collections of El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Bartolomé Estéban Murillo. Fine examples of the works of
Alhambra
2007-03-12 21:52:55
The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء = Al Ħamrā’; literally “the red”) is an ancient palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada, in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed), occupying a hilly terrace on the south-eastern border of the city of Granada. It was the residence of the Muslim kings of Granada and their court, but is currently a museum exhibiting exquisite Islamic architecture.
Coordinates: 37°10′36.81″N, 3°35′23.95″W
Alhambra
* NEW * - Commercial category
2007-03-15 23:46:23
Dear all,
I just opened Commercial
category. It means that you can post any kind of your business or shop that can be interesting to others and it is not related to travel or visiting places..
Use this opportunity for marketing, navigate people to your business. Use expansion of GPS devices and popularity.
Use POI files to add all your locations at once. Imagine how nice it is…
Configuration of Forerunner 305
2007-03-18 21:32:03
Hi,
I like very much customization option in Forerunner
305. It is easy to setup, you can choose from one to four values on screen and each is configurable. All profile or standard parameters can be choose as value. Check on picture how I organize three screens that are available for configuration. Also other features are very useful like Auto pause, Auto lap etc.
After two runs I’m very satisfied with accuracy, it is between 5-9m, don’t expect centimeters :-). It is easy to link route/run with Garmin maps or Google Earth. Virtual partner is great feature, you are running against your best time on course. It can motivate you after many runs on same courses.
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Burj Al Arab Hotel
2007-04-13 11:52:49
This is one of top “seven star” travel directions …
The Burj al-Arab (”Tower of the Arabs”) is a luxury hotel in Dubai, the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates, and was briefly marketed as “the world’s first seven-star hotel”. It was designed by Tom Wright of WS Atkins PLC. At 321 metres (1,053 ft), it is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. It stands on an artificial island 280 metres (919 ft) out from Jumeirah beach, and is connected to the mainland by a private curving bridge. It is an iconic structure, designed to symbolize Dubai’s urban transformation and to mimic the shape of an Arab dhow.
Coordinates: 25°08′28″N, 55°11′08″E
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2007-04-23 22:58:06
The Metropolitan
Museum
of Art, often referred to simply as “the Met”, is one of the world’s largest and most important art museums, must on any location tour. It is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York
City, United States. The Met also maintains “The Cloisters”, which features medieval art. The Met’s permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. The collection’s holdings range from treasures of classical antiquity, like those represented in its Greek and Cypriot galleries, to paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, to an extensive collection of American art. The collection also contains extensive holdings of Egyptian, African, Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, Byzantine and Islamic art. Very good when planning travel resources.
Coordinates: 40.779447° -73.96311°
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Versailles
2007-05-05 23:03:25
Versailles, famous tourism attractions, formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. The city (commune) of Versailles, located in the western suburbs of Paris, 17.1 km. (10.6 miles) from the center of Paris, is the préfecture (capital) of the Yvelines département.
The population of the city according to 2005 estimates was 86,400 inhabitants, down from a peak of 94,145 inhabitants in 1975. Versailles is made world-famous by the Château de Versailles, from the forecourt of which the city has grown. If you visit Paris add this to your vacation locations.
Coordinates: 48°48′19″N, 2°8′6″E
Pompeii
2007-05-05 22:51:01
This is great travel attractions. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. It, along with Herculaneum were destroyed, and completely buried, during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.
The volcano buried Pompeii under many meters of ash, and it was lost for 1,600 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Plan to add this to your tour attractions list.
Coordinates: 40.750833° N 14.487083° E
Mont Saint-Michel
2007-05-17 15:57:42
Mont Saint
-Michel (Mount Saint Michael) is a rocky tidal island in Normandy, roughly one kilometre from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. The inhabitants of Mont-Saint-Michel are called the Montois. Add this to your vacation locations list.
In prehistoric times the bay were covered by the sea, which retreated over multiple glaciations, allowing erosion to shape the coastal landscape over millions of years. Several blocks of granite or granulite emerged in the bay, having resisted the wear and tear of the ocean better than the surrounding rocks. These included Lillemer, the Mont-Dol, Tombelaine and Mont Tombe, later called Mont Saint Michel. Mont-Saint-Michel used to be connected to the mainland via a thin natural land bridge, which before modernization was covered at high tide and revealed at low tide. Thus, Mont Saint Michel gained a mystical quality, being an island half the time, and being attached to land the other: a tidal island.
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Cathedral of Chartres
2007-05-17 15:50:30
The Cathedral
of Chartres “Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres”, located in Chartres, about 50 miles (80 km) from Paris, is considered one of the finest examples in all France of the “Gothic” style of architecture. The cathedral is still the seat of the Diocese of Chartres, in the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province of Tours.
Construction of a new building on the Romanesque foundations was begun in 1145 in a blaze of enthusiasm dubbed the ‘Cult of the Carts.’ During this religious outburst a crowd of more than a thousand penitents dragged carts filled with building provisions including stones, wood, grain, etc. to the site. In 1194 a fire destroyed all but the west front of the cathedral (and much of the town), so that part is in the “early Gothic” style. The body of the cathedral was rebuilt between 1194 and 1220, a remarkably short span for medieval cathedrals. It has a ground area of 117 058 square feet (10 875 m²). Great trip plann
Dubrovnik
2007-05-17 15:41:31
Dubrovnik is a historic city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at 42°39′N, 18°04′E at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist resorts, a seaport and the center of the Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its population was 43,770 in 1991 and 49,728 in 2001. in 2001 the absolute majority of its citizens declared themselves as Croats with 88.39% (2001 census). Dubrovnik is nicknamed “Pearl of the Adriatic”. Check this in your list of tourism attractions.
The prosperity of the city of Dubrovnik has always been based on maritime trade. In the Middle Ages, as the Republic of Ragusa, it became the only eastern Adriatic city-state to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries. Ragusa was one of the centers of the development of the Croatian language and literature, home to many notable
Petra
2007-05-17 15:29:09
Petra is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock.
The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. It was famously described as “a rose-red city half as old as time” in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. Burgon had not actually visited Petra, which remained accessible only to Europeans accompanied by local guides with armed escorts, until after World War I. Good choice to add on vacation guides.
Coordinates: 30°19′43″N, 35°26′31″E
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Walt Disney World
2007-05-24 17:10:32
Walt Disney
World
Resort, often referred to as simply Walt Disney
World or Disney World, is a major recreational resort containing four theme parks. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts segment of The Walt Disney Company, it is located in Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida, outside the city limits of Orlando. Must travel attractions if you have kids.
Construction began in 1967, less than a year after Walt Disney’s death. It opened on October 1, 1971, as the Magic Kingdom, and since has added Epcot on October 1, 1982, Disney-MGM Studios on May 1, 1989, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998 as new theme parks. In addition to the four main theme parks, the resort contains two water parks, six golf courses, a sports complex, an auto race track, twenty resort hotels and numerous shopping, dining, and entertainment offerings. It even has its own fire department. The 20,000-plus acre property is the largest theme park resort in the world, although o
Alcatraz Island
2007-05-24 17:03:08
Alcatraz Island
(sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or by its pop-culture name, The Rock) is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963, when it became a national recreation area. Add this to your location tour.
Today, the island is a historic site supervised by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tours. Visitors can reach the island by ferry ride from Pier 33, near Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. It is listed as a National Historic Landmark. Now only tourism attractions.
Coordinates: 37.82721° -122.42389°
Times Square
2007-05-24 05:21:55
Times Square
is a major intersection in Manhattan, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square
consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan. One of most famous tourism attractions.
Like Red Square in Moscow, the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Champs-Elysées in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements.
Coordinates: 40.75659° N 73.98626° W
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Kennedy Space Center
2007-05-24 05:15:33
The John F. Kennedy
Space
Center
(KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, United States. The site is near Cape Canaveral, midway between Miami and Jacksonville, Florida. It is 34 mi long and around 6 mi wide, covering 219 square miles. Around 17,000 people work at the site. There is a visitor center and public tours and KSC is a major tourist destination for visitors to Florida. Because much of KSC is off limits to development, the site also serves as an important wildlife sanctuary, with only 9% of the land developed. Mosquito Lagoon, The Indian River, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore are also features of this area.
Operations are currently controlled from Launch complex 39, the location of the Vehicle Assembly Building. 3 mi to the east of the assembly building are the two launch pads. 5 mi south is the KSC Industrial Area, where many of the Center’s support facilities are loc
Statue of Liberty
2007-05-24 05:09:56
Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue
of Liberty, is a colossal statue given to the United States by France in 1886, standing at Liberty Island, New York in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugene Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue’s construction and adoption of the Repousse technique.
The statue shows a woman standing upright, dressed in a robe and a seven point spiked crown representing the seven seas and continents, holding a stone tablet close to her body in her left hand and a flaming torch high in her right hand. The statue is made of
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