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RockAroundTheWorld Retrospective – The 2004-5 Big Trip part 1: Around the Baltic in 80 Days

June 22, 2020by Dominic 5 Comments

We first coined the phrase “RockAroundTheWorld” in 2004 when Helen and I took the tumultuous decision to have a “grownup gap-year”, take the kids (aged 8 and 10) out of […]

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Eastern Europe, Hungary, Norway, Slovenia

Highlights from a Balkan Odyssey 

November 11, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

Back home from our Balkan Odyssey, and a chance to reflect on some of the highlights of a two-month, 10,000km climbing road-trip through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria to […]

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Eastern Europe, Greece, Uncategorized

Baile Herculane 

November 3, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

The spa resort of Baile Herculane is probably the finest climbing area in Romania – Petzl presumably thought so, as it featured on their last RocTrip. We arrived late and […]

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Eastern Europe, Romania

Vratsa 

September 23, 2017by Dominic 1 Comment

Probably the most famous and extensive climbing area in Bulgaria. Our well researched plans came somewhat unstuck as the campsite we’d been hoping to use as a base turned out […]

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Bulgaria, Eastern Europe

Karlukovo cave – Wow! 

September 22, 2017by Dominic 2 Comments

After a couple of weeks and a couple of thousand miles we’ve climbed on almost a dozen crags in five countries. Enjoyable routes in often great settings, but some way […]

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Bulgaria, Eastern Europe

More St. Trinity Rocks 

September 21, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

Having reccied the approach, and with an overnight weather front dropping the temperature by 10C, we went for another look at St Trinity Rocks. First stop was the twin caves […]

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Bulgaria, Eastern Europe

In to Bulgaria and climbing around Veliko Tarnovo 

September 20, 2017by Dominic 1 Comment

Leaving Brasov we enjoyed pre-Alpine scenery over the Bucegi mountains before dropping down to the plains and relative dullness of southern Romania around Bucharest. The Bucharest ring road was a […]

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Bulgaria, Eastern Europe

Climbing in Transylvania around Brasov 

September 18, 2017by Dominic 1 Comment

It’s less than 300km from Turda to Brasov, but around a 5 hour drive. You just have to get into the slower paced groove, rejoice in the average trip mpg […]

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Eastern Europe, Romania

Rimetea

September 15, 2017by Dominic Leave a comment

Just 30 minutes from Turda is the pretty village of Rimetea, a former Hungarian mining community which has been the subject of major renovation of its classical houses and historic […]

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Eastern Europe, Romania

Tardos – a taste of Hungarian climbing 

September 11, 2017by Dominic 2 Comments

Hungary is pretty flat – plenty of pretty green rolling hills, but not a lot of rock or places to climb. However, we were passing through and determined to get […]

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Hungary

Zadvarje

May 9, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Another crag within easy reach of Omis, at the top of the Cetina gorge. Nice drive, but to be honest the climbing wasn’t anything special. Maybe a jaundiced view as […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Brela

May 6, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Pretty crag, about 20km south of Omis. 60m routes on steep grey walls, covered in hidden jugs. Not to mention breathtaking views over the Adriatic.

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Dubrovnik

May 6, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

A damp day coincided with an overdue need for a rest, so a side trip to Dubrovnik fitted the bill. Gorgeous walled city with the compelling back story of recent […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Omis climbing

May 1, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Enough about pirates – what about the climbing? Well, there’s loads of it, much of which is spread along the road which winds out of town up the Cetina gorge, […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Omis – into the Pirate Stronghold

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

Omis lies a couple of hours south of Paklenica, and 20km south of Split. The river Cetina has carved a deep gorge through rock barriers, into the sea, making the […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Paklenica – Anica Kuk

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment
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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Karin – Great location; shame about the grades!

April 29, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment
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Croatia, Eastern Europe

Cragging in the Paklenica gorge

April 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

The climbing really is outstanding – just wish they’d bump up the grades a bit!

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

The convoy hits town

April 25, 2015by Dominic 1 Comment

Just as we’d settled into our seaside paradise, the convoy caught up with us 🙂 Mike, Geoff, Alf and Jean rolled into the campsite more or less as the rain […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

More multi pitch adventure – then rain

April 25, 2015by Dominic Leave a comment

We figured we’d avoid the polish in the main gorge by doing one of the multi pitch routes. Sure enough, despite being only 5 minutes from the car, ### was […]

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Croatia, Eastern Europe

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