Category Archives: Eastern Europe
Cragging in the Paklenica gorge
The climbing really is outstanding – just wish they’d bump up the grades a bit!
The convoy hits town
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 […]
More multi pitch adventure – then rain
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 […]
Paklenica
Paklenica National Park has the lucky juxtaposition of a stunning limestone gorge just a couple of miles from the Dalmatian coast. There are about 500 routes, from single pitch sports […]
Plitvice Lakes National Park
In line with a new found determination to try and take more rest days, we headed for a couple of days R and R at Plitvice Lakes National Park. Any […]
Kompanj and into Croatia
We fancied a change of scene from Osp so headed south over the border into Croatia. There has been a lot of development around the town of Buzet, with half […]
Dad’s cabs and a trip to Venice
The end of the kids’ trip came around all too soon, so I had a day playing taxi driver to not one but two airports in Venice. Having got Jake […]
Osp Luknja
This is the last of the Osp crags and another complete contrast. Tucked away at the bottom of the Big Wall sector is an amazing stalactite filled cave, which even […]
Osp Velika Stena – multi pitch adventure!
Dominating the village of Osp, and the “little” crags of Banje and Babna where we climbed earlier in the week, is Velika Stena – the Big Wall. Towering on the […]
8a/+ for Jake – Zadnja Skusnjava at Osp
A real bonus for Jake of staying in the same place for a week, and within walking distance of some world class climbing, is that it made a “project” approach […]
Crni Kal
The third major crag near Osp is Crni Kal – a different proposition from either the Osp village crags or Misja Pec, it stretches for a couple of km along […]
Misja Pec
Misja Pec lies 500m up the road from Osp, and like its big brother, was also formed by the collapse of an underground cave system in the Karst escarpment, many […]
Karst country
The landscape is dominated by the Karst escarpment, which runs for over 50km from Italy through Slovenia and into Croatia. In the picture below you can see the village of […]
Osp
Osp is a tiny village, a few km over the Italian border into Slovenia. Home to a great campsite, Camping Vovk, and dominated by the towering crags behind, this is […]
Buzet
Half an hour south of Osp, over the border into Croatia, lies Buzet, the latest mega crag to be developed in these parts. Actually a series of crags set in […]
Back on the road
Gales forecast across Britain, and Tashy is home from Bristol, so after a couple of weeks of pit stop we’re heading south again. It’s a 15 hour drive to Slovenia, […]
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