Tiatordos, Asturias. The perfect day?

It was from the summit of Peña Ten, back in 2019, that I saw Tiatordos peak (1951m) Since then, climbing it … More

Ibiza coastline walk: Figueretas – Santa Eulària

After the scenic, rewarding hike from Cala d’Hort to Cala Bassa the day before, on day 2 I would be … More

For our first stage on the Ibiza coastline walk, we wanted to combine spectacular scenery with a walk that would … More

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

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

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