The Good and the Bad of Shoulder Season
26/05/19 – 29/05/19 Travelling in the mountains during ‘shoulder season’ can sometimes be highly frustrating. As the snow recedes, it leaves behind the debris of autumn storms and winter snowfall…. Read more »
Category: Wildlife
The Ebro Delta – Birds, Sunsets and Cycling
05/12/18 – 06/12/18 When you look at the Delta de l’Ebre (if you are Catalan – Delta del Ebro if you are Spanish) on the map it looks like a… Read more »
Walks Around Espot and the Estany de Sant Maurici
09/11/18 – 10/11/18 When planning on leaving Andorra we had been trying to work out what next. Truth to tell we hadn’t been chased away from the mountains as soon… Read more »
Queralbs and Nuria. Snow, Water and an Unexpected Train Journey
31/10/18 -02/11/18 The last day of October was rather rainy and unpleasant. We drove to Ripoll, which is quite a large town for the area, and did some supermarket shopping…. Read more »
Heading Into Spain: Gothic Bridges and Pyrenean Chamois
29/10/18 – 30/10/18 We weren’t really sure what to expect from the Spanish Pyrenees. The French side of the mountains seems much more talked about in the motorhoming world, but… Read more »
Snowy Border Crossings at the Hospice de France
14/10/18 – 16/10/18 We had a fixed date in the diary for the coming weekend, a rugby match in the town of Castres. Although we’d already been to Bagneres de… Read more »
Thwarted at 3000m
11/10/18 While here in Gavarnie I wanted to tackle one of the easier 3000m peaks of the Pyrenees. The Pic du Taillon stands as the highest mountain of the Cirque… Read more »
Aulus-les-Bains and the Cascade d’Ars
27/09/18 – 29/09/18 After two weeks of sweaty walking and cycling we needed to do some washing. A bit of google maps investigation revealed that our closest launderette was at… Read more »
Not Quite in Andorra
24/09/18 – 26/09/18 We woke up on the top of the Col de Pailheres in thick fog, we could barely see anything; a bit of a concern as we wanted… Read more »
Getting Around near Beadnell
23/07/18 – 27/07/18 I have always been a fan of public transport. I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my late twenties, and that was more out of… Read more »
Gran Paradiso Part 2: Ibex on the Slopes of the Big One
07/06/18 – 10/06/18 These blog posts may get a bit samey…visit a valley in the Aosta region, cycle a bit, walk a bit, see some marmots etc etc. if they… Read more »
Valle d’Aosta. Perfect Peace in Torgnon
28/05/18 – 30/05/18 We had finally arrived in the Valle d’Aosta, the most westerly of Italy’s alpine regions which has borders with Switzerland and France. In fact French is an… Read more »
Classics and Chamois
12/05/18 – 13/05/18 As we travelled around the ridge of the Gran Sasso we started to see more evidence of earthquake damage, this was to become a feature of the… Read more »
Whose Pigs are these?
29/04/18 -30/04/18 We spent some time in Camping Torre Sabea thinking about our plans for the next few weeks. We need to be back in the UK for the end… Read more »
Bones and Birds in Otranto
23/04/18 We left our lovely campsite to head a very short distance to Otranto, We had one of those starts where we just couldn’t settle. There is a lot of… Read more »
Black Squirrels in La Sila
30/03/18 – 31/03/18 It might seem like we’re doing the Hokey-Cokey with our regular alternation between coast and inland. It was time to put our left leg in and move… 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 »
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 »
Cycling in Cabo de Gata
28/12/17 – 29/12/17 We were looking forward to visiting the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, somewhere that we had seen on blogs and forums and imagined we would enjoy…. 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 »