Tuscany
The final stop on our Italian Job was Tuscany. Whilst we’d been bathing in largely unbroken sunshine in Sicily and southern Italy (ironically, as had much of Britain!) the north […]
Category Archives: Italy
Le Marche
The Le Marche region sits north of Abruzzo, with Ancona as its capital and best known city. The guidebook features over 60 crags, but we were only able to climb […]
Abruzzo – Apennine Arrampicata
Central Italy is a bit like northern Scotland (and no, I’m not talking about food, weather or personality traits!) It’s only a couple of hours from West to East and […]
Campania Climbing and a Stunning Sea Cliff
After our serendipitous Calabrian encounter we headed north into Campania, the region that contains Naples, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast as some of its more renowned landmarks. For those who […]
Calabria Climbing and Serendipity
Heading north from Sicily, in the vague direction of Salerno (the next region with any significant climbing) we needed a stopover to break the journey. Helen is a campsite-finding genius, […]
Syracuse and Ragusa
Sicily is a pretty big island (it’s bigger than Wales and about 200x bigger than Kalymnos) so it’s not surprising that there’s a tonne of climbing! Whilst much of the […]
Palermo
I’ve never played any of those “Civilisation” style games, where you choose somewhere to found a settlement and then try to grow a metropolis. However, you can see what attracted […]
Around San Vito – Never Sleeping Wall and a Multi-Pitch Adventure
With the huge amount of climbing available along Scogliera Di Salinella, within a few minutes of the campsite, it would be easy to ignore the wealth of other crags within […]
San Vito Lo Capo – Scogliera Di Salinella. Part 2: South and Far South
If you missed Part 1, it’s worth checking here: Continuing our north to south traverse of Scogliera Di Salinella – next stop: South – heading right from the campsite (past […]
San Vito Lo Capo – Scogliera Di Salinella. Part 1: North to Campsite
Sicily is the logical and aesthetic end-point for an Italian climbing road trip. Not only is it the obvious objective, perched at the farthest extremity of the peninsula (a good […]
Statte – Climbing on Italy’s Instep
Our exploration of the foot of Italy has moved from the ankle to the instep. Statte is a small town, just inland from the sprawling industrial port of Taranto. Non-descript […]
Ciao e Benvenuti in Italia – First stop Puglia
Rockaroundtheworld is branching out from the usual Spanish and Greek winter haunts to spend the early part of 2025 in Italy, so Benvenuti! Why not buckle up and join us! […]
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 […]
Finale (the original one!)
We’ve been firm fans of Oltre Finale (which translates as “beyond” Finale) for a number of years now, but had written off its more famous and long-standing neighbor as being […]
Aosta round up – more rock than you can shake a stick at!
With so much climbing I’ve got into a bit of a “back-blog” so here’s a quick round up of the other crags we visited in the Aosta Valley: Corno di […]
Another Day In (Grand) Paradiso
A message from Will, fresh back from Leonidio, prompted a further exploration of the crags further up the Valgrisenche. He and a Cham team were planning a foray through the […]
Matterhorn and Monte Rosa
No, we haven’t packed big boots and crampons for this trip. The Aosta guide is a huge tome, organised into sections according to area, and the valleys leading up to […]
La Ravoire and Leverogne
The Aosta Valley runs for almost 100km from just north of our campsite (Camping Mombarone) … up to Courmayeur and the Mont Blanc tunnel. There’s a tonne of rock (140 […]
Gruviera and Montestrutto – into Val d’Aosta
We’re taking advantage of a weather window to explore the climbing around Grand Paradiso and the Aosta Valley, starting in the lower valley whilst things perk up and dry out […]
Weathering Storm Alex
Alex, the first named storm of the year, was forecasted to dump about 6 inches of the wet stuff on Val Penneveire on Friday, threatening to put a major dampener […]
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