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 […]
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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! […]
Sud-Est Direct, Pic du Midi d’Ossau
Episode 12 of Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventures touched down at Bilbao Airport (you might recall that our 2022 Utah adventure was inadvertently christened Episode 13, owing to a counting […]
Cirque de Labeil
The Cirque de Labeil was one of the “must visit” crags recommended by Keith and Fiona, but we’d struggled to time our visit with an appropriate weather window. On the […]
Roche Autour du Gard
All good things come to an end, and after 3 weeks of unbroken sunshine in the Durance, the weather finally went pear-shaped. Two days of forecasted rain followed by a […]
Weather to Fly – pretty much guaranteed in Tenerife!
The kids and I are off for a week of sun in Tenerife to escape the storms at home (meteorological and political – there’s a faint possibility of at least […]
Bill and Dom’s Excellent Adventure – Episode 11 arrives in Colorado
After an uneventful flight we arrived in Denver just before midnight. With afternoon thunder storms forecasted and a need to get some acclimatisation in before heading up to climb on […]
Third Sister, Gower
The Three Sisters are just some of the landmark bits of rock architecture that decorate the Gower coast between Rhossili and Port Eynon – it’s no accident that this was […]
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 […]
End of SunRock 2019; and then there were three
Dave and Lins kindly picked up Jake at 6.30 this morning for the trip to the airport, and that’s the official end of SunRock 2019 – 36 Rucksack Club members […]
Leonidio – Hot Rock (at last!)
The sun has well and truly got its hat back on now! SunRock indeed 🙂 Troughton team selfie at the campsite ahead of Tash’s last day Back to Twin Caves […]
Leonidio – Mignonette; multi-pitching on Kokkinovrachos
Warm, sunny intervals and possible showers – a bit of everything today, and teams headed to Panagia, Theos and Mars. After a tough 4 days, Jake was keen for a […]
Leonidio – Theos Cave; The Place to Be!
Wednesday was a day to forget from a climbing point of view – torrential rain was only interrupted towards late afternoon when it turned to snow! In fairness, Jim and […]
L’Albenc and into the Vercours
The Isere Valley marks the northern border of the Vercours national park and the river has sliced the end of this high plateau leaving towering limestone cliffs impressively lining its […]
Summer arrives at Hobson Moor
Got lucky again with the weather – REALLY lucky this time! After a shocking winter and early spring, and the washout of the first two Rucksack Club Wednesday evening meets, […]
Coll de Nargo – Sector Coll Pique and SamarkandÂ
A major deluge throughout Saturday prompted a much needed rest day and a change of scene, so we headed over the hills to Oliana. Great views of the world’s second […]
Sintra – Penedo da AmizadeÂ
UNESCO-listed Sintra is set high on a hilltop overlooking the Cabo da Roca, and was the favourite summer retreat for the Portuguese Royal family when Lisbon became a bit sweaty. […]
Highlights from a Balkan OdysseyÂ
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 […]
A trip to Mars
Mars is big and red (and quite a long way away… certainly a bit more than the 20 minutes suggested in the guidebook, but well worth the effort.) It’s probably […]
VarasovaÂ
Another two-crag day, making the most of the heat of midday to shift base again, heading further south to Varasova. This is a huge triangular limestone mountain (917m high) overlooking […]
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