Slow (and warm) travel in Macedonia, Greece

I admit it. My expectations about the first leg of our Greece trip were, um, modest. After all, it was … More

Maliciosa Peak (2227m) – Hugest among our mountains

In this hiker’s imagery, La Maliciosa (“the malicious one”) is the biggest mountain in our modest sierra. Huge, really. Not … More

Every Spanish town has a bar, no matter how dinky the town may be. Conventional wisdom that my son had … More

Pretty impressive, the guajes, nodded the ruddy Asturian mountaineer on meeting the three of us on the top of Peña … More

You know when you’re in a nice mountain village or coastal town and say, hey, I wish I could own … More

La Pedriza: ode to granite rock, smells of rockrose, mecca of Madrid climbers and hikers and, well…one of the few … More

K. said we were enjoying the Mediterranean dream, and I had to agree. She couldn’t get over the olive trees … More

It had been – what – 20 years since I had hiked in Gredos for the last time? And this … More

2020, phew. So thankful it’s over, like y’all. In what regards the project behind this blog, there were some disappointments … More

No hay mal que por bien no venga, we say in Spanish. Good stuff comes out of shit times, I … More