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The clifftops around the spectacular Cap de la Nau, beyond Xabia, are crammed with holiday properties, seemingly stuck on at random anywhere there’s a bit of non-vertical space – like […]
The clifftops around the spectacular Cap de la Nau, beyond Xabia, are crammed with holiday properties, seemingly stuck on at random anywhere there’s a bit of non-vertical space – like […]
La Solana is a newish crag on the hillside just west of Lliber and immediately above the village of Xalo (Xs seem to have won out over Js in the […]
Our only previous visit to this crag was under oath not to reveal its whereabouts or even existence – armed with a scribbled topo we had a brilliant day at […]
We’ve been climbing on the Costa Blanca for over 30 years and must have accumulated at least a year “in residence” over that time (maybe two!) so there’s always the […]
With Omicron in retreat, and restrictions lifting, it’s time to dust off the RockAroundTheWorld machine and get it back on the road. After a Sunday lunchtime Eurotunnel the intervening 4 […]
Wow – it’s barely a week ago (Friday 13th, not that I’m superstitious – or wasn’t!) that we were sitting in the kitchen at Finepark, Finestrat, with the Rucksack Club […]
Sorry for the blog backlog (is that a back-blog?) but things have been a bit hectic for the last week. SPOILER ALERT – WE’VE MADE IT HOME – Story of […]
Bunol gets a big write up in Donde Escalar (full page spread and 4 karabiners) but we’d had a previous recce a few years ago and pretty much failed to […]
Yet another pretender to the Castellón climbing crown, Chiva is too recently developed to even make it into the latest edition of Donde Escalar (2018). It does feature in the […]
As you turn off the A23 at junction 31, just past the Aldi, and head through the well-kept town of Altura, there’s no sign that another of Castellon’s newly developed […]
Waking up in the van at the Alto Mijares refugio, and looking out of the bedroom window; hrmmm, where shall we go climbing today? The top of the canyon immediately […]
The recently developed climbing area of Alto Mijares is near the village of Olba in the far southern reaches of Aragon. It is surrounded by far more famous and well […]
Moixent is a pretty little village, just off the A35 west of Vallada. The rocky gorge of the Barranc de la Fos is just north of the village and barely […]
A blustery westerly had us looking for an east-facing crag – we didn’t have to look far: A bit further up the hillside from the Xorreres sector we’ve already explored […]
Tierra de Nadie is a recently developed crag between Montessa and Vallada (hence “No Man’s Land”). It is clearly visible from the A 35 and from the well-established climbing area […]
We visited Vallada a couple of years ago on a chilly day and left impressed – the sign-off line on the blog post was: “plenty to come back for”https://rockaroundtheworld.co.uk/2017/02/22/vallada/… and […]
The main cliff at Leyva, Pared Sur, is one of the most impressive bits of rock in southern Spain – 150m high and about a mile wide, it’s position aloft […]
Dalias is a small town, halfway between the Sierra Nevada and the Costa del Sol. We were looking for options to extend our stay in the Alpujarra, having decided that […]
We’ve based ourselves at the lovely Almócita campsite, in the foothills of the Alpujarra. After stumbling into the path of the giant white motorhome migration, when passing Granada, it’s a […]
As we left Jean, skirting Granada, on the way to Almería, the wall-to-wall olive groves gave way to the white and pink blossoms of the almond trees; all set against […]