Grand Finale
We’d set out for Croatia unsure how long the autumn weather would be fit for climbing – banking on a couple of weeks, but daring to hope for more. Almost […]
We’d set out for Croatia unsure how long the autumn weather would be fit for climbing – banking on a couple of weeks, but daring to hope for more. Almost […]
Cikola is described as the fastest-developing climbing area in Croatia, with the first routes only established in 2015; it now boasts over 250. Cikola is the largest tributary feeding the […]
With so much climbing around our beach-front residence at Camping Stobrec, Split, I had to SPLIT it into two posts. This one, somewhat arbitrarily, takes in three crags to the […]
It turns out that it does sometimes rain in Croatia, and we used a couple of very damp days (sorry – no rain pics, but trust me; it was verging […]
The remarkable geography around this attractive coastal town once made it the base for the most powerful pirates in the Mediterranean. Backed by high mountains, and with a natural rock […]
Paklenica is deservedly the most famous climbing destination in Croatia – this 15km long canyon starts just a couple of km from the coast and snakes its way up into […]
The Velebit massif is the largest (though not the highest) mountain range in Croatia. It sits proudly overlooking the Adriatic, and runs for around 150km down the spine of the […]
Escaping some iffy weather in Istria we hoped to sample the climbing on Krk (a handy island destination because it is now connected via a now free bridge), but that […]
Kompanj is the other 5* crag in the Buzet area; a defiant final outcrop of immaculate white and orange limestone on the 100km escarpment before it fizzles out towards Rijeka. […]
Istria, the bulbous peninsula at the northern end of the Adriatic, is separated from the rest of Croatia by the Učka mountains, which are protected as a Nature Park. The […]
The Karst escarpment that hosts so much quality climbing in this corner of the Adriatic runs for around 100km from Monfalcone in Italy, south east through Trieste, nips across Slovenia, […]
The RockAroundTheWorld bus is back in action and heading for an autumn escape to Croatia. If you plot a route via the Hull-Rotterdam ferry, you’ll find you pretty much drive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]