People – Page 2 – Road and Ocean

Maple boil

April 20, 2013 Chris TannerLeave a comment

With Kate, Oli, Fin and Eliza at their place in Ottawa. They’d been collecting maple sap for a few weeks from the tree at the front of their house. When the temperature is above freezing during the day and below freezing during the night, the trees pump sap. It took about 8 hours to boil 80 litres of sap down into 2 litres of syrup – towards the end of the process you need to be watching the temperature of the mixture like a hawk, and when it gets to 103 degrees you’re done. Tastes so good. Was lovely to spend the weekend with old buddies.

Snow time

February 5, 2013 Chris TannerLeave a comment

Rose, Me, Helen and Jon at the top of Jon + Helen’s local ski centre. We were lucky to get a couple of minutes here to catch the shot; there was such a lot of low cloud around that snowboarding and skiing were a real struggle. Happy days.

Brian’s breakfast

December 9, 2012 Chris TannerLeave a comment

Brian B down below, cooking up one of his legendary fried breakfasts. We managed to get him into his bright sponsored shirt, too! We ate a fry-up every morning, and didn’t have much else during the day apart from a can or two of Tusker and a bit of stew or curry in the evening. I actually felt really good after a couple of weeks of this. Might have to try it at home…

Cap’n Tanner

December 5, 2012 Chris TannerLeave a comment

Dad at the helm on Brian’s boat, sailing south to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from Kilifi, Kenya – on our way to the Dar Tanga race. This was the first year that the race was back on having been cancelled for the few previous years due to piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Larma tree

July 18, 2010 Chris TannerLeave a comment

What is it with festivals and straw hats?

Al fresco

May 24, 2010 Chris TannerLeave a comment

One of the best places to enjoy dinner – at anchor somewhere peaceful, in the warm sun. Helen, Jon and Rose, Croatia.

Shredding the gnar

September 1, 2009 Chris TannerLeave a comment

OK, so this isn’t so pretty. But it tells a story. I crashed off my bike last week in the Alps and put a nasty gash in my arm. Went to the local emergency centre who wouldn’t let me in as I was so grubby! I managed to get a quick splash at the local fountain and tried again – they let me in this time and apologised when they saw the depth of the wound. They popped a few stitches in and sent me on my way. That was the end of my riding for the week though. Throughout the trip I was hitting things, crashing and generally not doing so well – I put it down to tiredness and the inability to think fast enough to steer and brake properly. I’d had a crazy few months up to this point at work and it showed.