Corinthian Cragging and heading home
Another couple of drive-by crags discovered on the way home, either side of the famed ancient city of Corinth. Heraion Lake is a beautiful lagoon on the Perachora peninsula with […]
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Elsewhere on Evia
Manikia might now be the most developed climbing area on the island of Evia, but it’s not the only one, nor was it the first. Whilst we were in the […]
A Multi-Pitch Adventure and Les Larmes de Sisyphe
The Manikia guidebook writers are especially proud of the dozen or so multi-pitch routes that have been established and have given them pride of place at the front of the […]
Manikia – Upper Valley
Something to bear in mind if planning a trip to Manikia is that much of the climbing, and certainly the most popular crags, are actually nearer to Vrysi at the […]
Manikia – Mpougazi
Mpougazi, pronounced and sometimes written Bougazi, is the group of crags immediately above the village of Vrysi, which dominate the view from Camping Dragonera Cliffs. Not a bad view to […]
Manikia – Lower Valley crags
If Leonidio is “The New Kalymnos”, then Manikia can lay a decent claim to being “The New Leonidio”. Although the earliest route dates back to 1995, and a couple of […]
Ermionida – Didyma and Katafiki Canyon
Ermionida is the southern end of the Argolis peninsula (the “thumb” on the “hand” of the Peloponnese). Blessed by generally good weather and a good combination with the Nafplio crags, […]
Nestani and Agios Petros – nothing Spartan about these crags!
Most visitors or would be visitors to Greece, on closing their eyes, will conjure up images of islands or beaches, but it’s a surprisingly mountainous country. The Taygetus mountain range […]
Zobolo – new crags on the very edge of Europe
Leaving Leonidio on a showery day, we turned south to head down to the very tip of the Laconia peninsula, the “index finger” of the Peloponnese, dropping in to Vlychada […]
Jupiter – Wow! and the Arcadia Crags
In the inevitable roller-coaster of weather, we’ve now reached the 20C tipping point where it’s actually more comfortable climbing in the shade. With Max-temp Leonidio arriving, coinciding with a rest-day […]
Acropolis, Dornr̦schen, Miti and Red Rocks РTurned out Toasty again!
After a drizzly interlude, normal service has been resumed in Leonidio. Conditions, for a few days at least, are in the Goldilocks zone where it’s sunny enough to bask in […]
It’s not all S#!ts and Giggerls
People often comment on us being lucky with the weather (occasionally intimating a pact with you-know-who). Luck doesn’t really come into it – It’s more a question of a) stacking […]
New ground – Yellow Eyes, Muppet Show & Olympus
After a few days of sun-seeking and blowing off the cobwebs, temps are finally into the teens and we can start “Boldly going…” Though it’s an effort to tear ourselves […]
Leonidio revisited – Cave of Panagiá
As we bade farewell to Leonidio after a marvellous five-weeks in residence in 2019… … we certainly didn’t expect it to be another five years before a return visit. Covid […]
Greece Odyssey 2024
RockAroundTheWorld has made a couple of previous overland trips to Greece, once taking in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria on the way… … and once taking the “shortcut” via a ferry […]
Ticino – Galbisio, sector Movenpick: a very handy crag
With a few hours to kill before our ferry from Patras we decided to check out the Kykao microbrewery on the edge of town. We’d consumed vast quantities of their […]
Kalogria
We’ve made our way over to the west coast, on the way to our Patras ferry, and one of the consolations is our first sunset in almost two months (we’ve […]
Watermill and a taste of Kyparadiso!
After a peaceful night on the beach we opened the door to find ourselves in our own tiny slice of paradise Carlsberg don’t make van stop-overs, but… However, it was […]
Goodbye Leonidio, Hello Kyparissi – Kastraki
We arrived in Leonidio expecting to stay a couple of weeks and fretting slightly whether we’d have enough to do as we eked-out our visit to coincide with the thirty […]
Leonidio – Dornrochen
We’d walked past this crag on our way up to King of Thrones on our last trip (moving as quickly as the oppressive heart would allow to reach the sanctuary […]
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