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In January 2015 we spent a month backpacking staying in hostels or guesthouses, with a couple of nights in a tent while in Torres del Paine. We could easily have stayed for six months so our month trip was rather intense with no more than a couple of days in Read More …
Southend Airport?!? There was incredulity in my voice as my fellow chaps advised they’d booked their flight to Krakow. Our annual boys weekend cum pilgrimage to the mountains was fast approaching and this years destination were the Tatra Mountains, straddling Poland and Slovakia. The main highlight was to be Orla Read More …
Cuba (Jan 13) – a two-week backpacking trip See Flickr album here Havana down to Trinidad on the south coast then up via Santa Clara to Cayo Guillemo a small island on the north coast and the famous beach at Playa Pillar. Then headed west via Havana to the tobacco plantations Read More …
I’m rather embarrassed that it’s taken almost a year to write up my trip to Vietnam last New Year, but I’ve finally managed it, just in time before the next New Year! It was a last minute decision. New Year engenders an expectation of doing something, of being somewhere, pulled Read More …
It’s been such a great summer in London what with the Queen’s Jubilee, the Olympics and Paralympics and a host of other supporting events that have combined to make such a great atmosphere. I’ve uploaded a few of my favourite photos taken over in and around London over the summer Read More …
The annual boys weekend in Europe took a turn with the invite list this year being extended to newcomers including…shock/horror a girl! Phillipa, one of our climbing buddies, had dared to invade the sanctity of the previously all-male crew. After Switzerland and the Tour de Wildhorn last year it was Read More …
Where has the time gone! All seems to have been quiet and my blog been somewhat neglected over the autumn and winter. A quick potted history of what I’ve been up to over the past few months:- Indoor climbing – quite a bit, but not enough and usually at Westway Read More …
The trip started badly when one of the cases never arrived in Geneva – meaning no boots, ice-axe or crampons for two of our group. Easyjet tip – if they ask if you have any sharp objects do not volunteer you have an ice-axe and crampons in a case that’s Read More …
After neglecting my blog for some months now, I currently packing for a 6-day hut-to-hut route around the Wildhorn in the Swiss Alps. The past few months have been busy with work and sorting some personal stuff, so no UK trips save for a couple of climbing weekends down in Read More …
Excited! because the flight to Sardinia is booked for 20th April, for a week rock climbing and camping in the mountains…and in the sun! That’s not me! Frustration! because I’ve been told the only gear I need to take is a harness and shoes, when everyone knows a trip is Read More …