A Serendipitous Stop
15/03/18 From Maratea we were unable to continue along the coast due to road closures. So we decided to head inland. We could see on the map that the road… Read more »
Category: Walking
The Heavens Opened
14/03/18 The Basilicata coast has been compared to the Amalfi coast in our guide book. Is it comparable? We don’t know yet because our trip to the Amalfi coast was… Read more »
Appraise my Donkey
13/03/18 The name of this post refers to the coast path that we walked on this day – Apprezzami l’Asino. The apocryphal story being that the path is so narrow,… Read more »
A Walk and Two Doughnuts
10/03/18 We stayed in Marina di Camerota for two very different nights. On Friday night we were joined by a couple of Italian motorhomes in the big carpark behind the… Read more »
Bent Wheels and Buffalo Butter
07/03/18 – 08/03/18 We drove down the road to Agropoli, the same road we had driven the day before in the other direction. A parking spot close to the coast… Read more »
Almost to the Top of Vesuvius
15/02/18 Snow had been falling on Bertie on Valentine’s evening. Fat flakes that hadn’t settled on the road but had frosted the trees. We didn’t know what Vesuvius summit would… Read more »
After the Old Stuff, Old People
07/02/18 – 08/02/18 After Rome Paul decreed that he couldn’t cope with any more ‘Old Sh*t’ and needed to detox. So it was time to find somewhere we could walk… Read more »
The Hollow Ways of the Etruscans
30/01/18 As we drove south through Tuscany the land slowly flattened out. From the steep sided closely packed hills of the north we ventured through lower hills and wider shallower… Read more »
Bagno Vignoni and the Via Francigena
28/01/18 – 29/01/18 We moved on from Greve-in-Chianti to find something less strenuous to occupy our time. Tuscany has a number of hot springs and so we thought we’d see… Read more »
A Pause in Alcossebre
16/01/18 We got out of Moncofa as quickly as possible in the morning. Using the facilities (thanks Moncofa for providing them) and making tracks further north along the coast. The… Read more »
Snow in the Alpujarras
09/01/18 – 11/01/18 It was going to be a whistle stop tour through the Alpujarras as the inclement weather had delayed our start. We only had three days before we… Read more »
Linger a Little Longer
07/01/18 – 08/01/18 Our plan had been to leave the Cabo de Gata and head back to the Malaga area across the Alpujarras, getting some time in the hills before… Read more »
Putting Down Roots
02/01/18 – 06/01/18 It took some persuasion to move us away from our next stop, that and a very full toilet. The sun was shining and the wind had mostly… Read more »
Do you know the way?
31/12/17 – 01/01/18 We walked the coast path out of San Jose towards the east, working our way up through the streets of the town until we found the path… Read more »
Hairnets and Hardhats
20/12/17 – 22/12/17 After Ronda we made our way down to the coast to meet up with Aaron and his fiancée Katie who were joining us for a few pre-Christmas… Read more »
Mountain Summits and Vultures
18/12/17 Our last post was on New Year’s Day 2018, so we’re going back in time to catch up on the happenings of later December 2017. We had stayed the… Read more »
The Grazalema Mountains
16/12/17 – 17/12/17 From Seville we travelled south east to the Sierra de Grazalema natural park where we hoped to get our mountain fix. Our first stop was El Bosque,… Read more »
Sierra de Aracena
13/12/17 North of Huelva, the town of Aracena sits in the folds of the Sierra de Aracena; gentle forested hills and mountains that form part of the wider Sierra Morena… Read more »
Zombie Nation
06/12/17 – 08/12/17 We didn’t intend to spend much time in the Algarve, but we wanted to see the rock formations of the Algarve cliffs somewhere and Lagos seemed as… Read more »
To the Furthest Corner of Europe
05/12/17 Well…one of them anyway. Our parking spot was at Cabo São Vicente, the south-west corner of Europe near the town of Sagres. We had emptied and refilled Bertie at… Read more »