Galloway Glamping
With the weather set fair across the country it seemed like an ideal opportunity for the visit to Mull that we’d been mulling. Unfortunately, our erstwhile trusty van had other […]
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Back in Blighty
Having more or less maxed out our 90 days in Shengen, our return on Easter Sunday coincided with the first flush of spring (almost summer!) Perfect timing to join the […]
Olvena and Homeward Bound
Olvena is just north of Huesca, in Arragon, on the southern fringes of the Pyrenees. It’s comfortably within a day’s striking distance of Bilbao (our ferry departure point on the […]
Torrechiva Revisited and Albarracín
If you’ve been following the blog for the last couple of months, you’ll have visited almost 50 crags with us, the vast majority of which were “new this year” to […]
Alcublas and some revisiting
Starting to sketch out a route northwards, as we wended our way towards the Bilbao ferry over the following couple of weeks, we were back to the multi-dimensional matrix of […]
Jaén – Bedmar La Serrezuela and Cerro Golondrina
We’ve really enjoyed a few previous excursions into Jaén and especially discovering Reguchillo, which I described on this blog post as… this is a contender for “best crag in Spain […]
Cádiz and Olvera
For our Malaga Hinterland exploration we actually based ourselves just over the border in neighbouring Cádiz, in a charming hilltop campsite: Camping Pueblo Blanco, near Olvera. The province of Cádiz […]
Puerto del Viento and More Malaga Reconnaissance
Puerto del Viento is a magnificent crag, set high on the hillside above the namesake mountain pass. We’d stumbled across it in 1995 and been enchanted by the feeling of […]
Malaga Hinterland – Teba and Cañete
Malaga is one of eight Provinces of Andalusia (can you name the others… Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, and Seville). From the perspective of the average British tourist, it’s […]
North of Granada – Moclín and Tiena
The bulk of the crags in the Granada guide are north of the city. We’d chatted to a couple of climbers at Capileira the previous week – a Welsh woman […]
Las Alpujarras
Las Alpujarras is a natural and historical region in Andalusia on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The average elevation is 1,200 metres, and there’s generally a view of […]
A to Z on the way to Granada – Ayna to Zújar
We were heading to Granada to catch up with Jim and Claire for a week’s flying visit. Rather than blast around the coastal motorway system, we opted for the cross-country […]
L’Amagatall del Cabeçò
This is a long post for a small crag owing to some spectacularly unusual routes and some great pics of them. The “magic” of Facebook (tongue in cheek, but it […]
Vinalopó – Alicante beyond the Costa
There’s much more to Alicante climbing than the Costa Blanca, and the publication of a new guidebook to the hinterland region in the Vinalopó River valley presented a good excuse […]
Clubbing on the Costa (Rucksack Clubbing that is!)
Nope, we haven’t been out on the lash in Benidorm – we’ve been enjoying the company of the Rucksack Club on the Costa Blanca! For about a dozen years, Helen […]
Another Spot of Bove… Bovesponja
Camping Escalada, near Gandía, is a pretty handy stopover on the way south towards the Blanca, and perfectly situated for the string of crags which form a backdrop: Bovedon, Bovedos […]
Ròtova – a hidden gem
More scouring of the Internet threw up another interesting sounding crag in the vicinity of Gandía, and only 15mins from our base at Camping Escalada. Ròtova might only have about […]
More Rock Around Castellón – Xert, Ayódar and Torrechiva
The Baix Maestrat region is towards the north of Castellón, inland from Vinaros, and with a damp day in prospect we took the opportunity to relocate to explore another bunch […]
Rock Around Castellón – Botalaria, Torres d’en Domenec and Murs
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road, heading to Spain and armed with a box full of new guidebooks that Santa managed to squeeze down the chimney. First stop Castellón, to […]
First Kiss / Last Route
It seemed like no time since we’d arrived, but it was already our last climbing day in Rum. It’s quite a lot of faff to get there (see “logistics” notes […]
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