La Pedriza: the playground of my life

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

Still Remote: Another Try at Loving Gredos

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

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

I said it before on this blog. COVID season sucks like you wouldn’t believe, but there are lessons to be … More

There was a tinge of madness in how she approached tourists who walked casuallly on the first part of the … More

As the end of the particularly harsh COVID-19 quarantine in Spain became apparent, I had little doubts as to what … More