Airport day YECTOYD at Mevlana
The forecasters got it wrong – woohoo! Despite an inch of rain and a big lightning storm overnight, Tuesday (our departure date) dawned sunny but cold. Last-day enthusiasm (desperation at […]
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Shorts weather at last!
The weather and Jake’s ambition finally coincided to deliver a sunny day’s climbing, with the zip-offs being brought into action for the first time 🙂 The lower tier at Geyikbayri […]
Olympos – a trip to the seaside
There’s enough climbing at Geyikbayri for a few months, but we fancied a change of scene so what better than a trip to the seaside? Olympos is a small seaside […]
Incy wincy spider – take 2
After a couple of days of rain it’s dried up 🙂 Rather than the focus being on finding routes in sheltered caves, the struggle has been finding routes that aren’t […]
Happy New Year!
We found ourselves at Kezban’s for a New Year’s Eve celebration. Great buffet of Turkish salada and dips followed by soup and a main course of lamb and rice. All […]
Turkey for Christmas
Actually we’re in Turkey for New Year, but it doesn’t sound so good. Jake and I flew into Antalya yesterday (30th December) for a week of sun and steep rock. […]
It’s Christmas!
Two weeks of ceaseless rain finally broke this morning – not a white Christmas, but at least a dry one. Where better for a pre-dinner blast of fresh air than […]
Gernika
The heart of Basque country is Gernika (or Guernica). The spiritual home, where meetings of the Nation’s leadership were traditionally held beneath an ancient tree, was made famous as the […]
Basque country
Heading for Santander and we travel through Basque Country. It really feels like a different country – different architecture, different landscape and different language – almost slavic in look and […]
Heading north
Weather in Catalunya getting seriously chilly, and it’s time to be heading home for Christmas. On the way we thought we’d recce a few crags for a future visit. One […]
Santa Ana
This collection of crags sits in a slightly industrial setting beneath an awesome dam and hydroelectric scheme. However, without this the access to the wealth of climbing here would be […]
Santa Linya
Heading north now, towards Bilbao and a ferry crossings on Thursday. Santa Linya provides an ideal stopping off point – easy overnight parking, some great routes we didn’t have time […]
Incy wincy spider climbs up Siurana again.
Yes, the sun is back… …but check out the number of duvets being worn! Icy wind blasting in from the north west made for very chilly climbing on our first […]
More rain, more Gaudi!
Sunday turned out rainy again – by which I mean the torrential, non stop variety 😦 As Tash was flying out from Barcelona we decided to put our new found […]
Chickpea curry and other aspects of eating on a road trip
Seven weeks into our trip and we finally had chickpea curry for the first time last night…. Those of you who are familiar with our normal van cooking repertoire may […]
A culture break ìn Reus
The monsoon continues, and so desperate times call for desperate measures. We decide to download the Rough Guide to Spain (or “Rough Guess” as we have found to be a […]
More rain and another trip to Siurana saves the day
The weather gods delivered a major storm overnight – biblical rainfall served up with accompanying pyrotechnics of sheet lightning and crashing thunder. There was no way there would be any […]
Back to Siurana with two house guests
We woke up this morning to find the van had been invaded by a giant slug. See photo. The weather wasn’t looking great so we set off for Siurana with […]
Mont-ral and more Vilanova de Prades
This week it’s open house on the Oughton road trip. First guest appearance of the week is Warby and we head for sector “Camping” at Vilanova de Prades. Apparently much […]
Siurana
Siurana is the “Queen of the Prades” and an early contender for “world’s best crag” in the infancy of the development of sports climbing in the ’80s. With well over […]
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