Posts Tagged ‘England’

Two Weeks in Britain

For the next 14 days Sidepodcast is going a little bit Great Britain crazy, because not only is our home GP just around the corner, but we’ve got three days of fantastic Silverstone testing to look forward too as well.

Kimi Räikkönen testing at Silverstone in 2007

As I attended on my lonesome last year, Christine’s never been to a test before, so we’re planning a whole bunch of coverage for you this week. Wednesday is the big day and if you’re in the vicinity of Northamptonshire please don’t hesitate to stop us and say “Hi”. We’ll be packing both audio and video equipment, so if you’re up for an interview then all the better (no pressure, although we have been known to offer bribes).

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Written on June 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm by me.
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Outside Broadcast

On Friday our broadband died… again! F1 Minute was subsequently uploaded via a dialup connection, but figuring we couldn’t go another weekend without fast net access, on Saturday morning we headed straight out to pick up a 3G modem.

It turns out that these things are pretty indispensable and it’s fast becoming my favourite gadget of the year. We went for a pay-as-you-go package and £15 worth of credit, which gives us 3GB of bandwidth before we have to top up again.

In order to stretch the modem’s legs we figured a road trip was necessary, so this morning we set off in search of some F1 excitement and ended up at a traditional English pub.

To find out what’s so important about this particular pub and how we ended up there, you’ll have to listen to this week’s show. I’m writing this post from the backseat of the car, on the journey home, and so long as the modem’s up to the task, the show will be available shortly.

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Written on February 10th, 2008 at 06:34 pm by me.
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