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2025 in Photos – A Highlights Review
According to the ‘Mountain Lifestyle’ website stats, 2025 has been quite the year, as documented in 191 Blog Posts. While our home base remains in North Wales, we’ve also travelled through some new parts of England and Wales this year, as well as venturing overseas. I spent almost all of April in the Arctic –… Read more
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The Swim/Climb Combo
Our final day of ‘activity’ here on the Greek Island of Evia. As has been a theme of the trip, it started with the short walk from bed to the roof top terrace for a morning brew and some sunrise appreciation. The wind had picked up today making it feel a bit cooler than usual,… Read more
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Return of the Sunshine!
Hoorah! The sunshine is back and today felt a little bit like what a Greek Island climbing trip should be like. The sky has been so blue that it’s been almost impossible to believe that it was pouring with rain all day and into the night yesterday. We went up to one of the ‘close… Read more
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Churches and Castles
We’ve had a couple of damp days since the Christmas Day fun. Actually, we’ve had one damp day and one day of solid torrential rain! Climbing and swimming were both off the menu, but between the showers, we took a Boxing Day walk up our local volcano! Which happens to have a church built on… Read more
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Christmas in Greece
Our host arrived at the front door on Christmas Eve with yet another tray of ‘Christmas Cakes’! This time she also had a Santa hat on and a little bag of wrapped presents for us each! We’d spent the overcast day exploring a section of the coast and managed a short cliff top walk near… Read more
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Climbing at ‘All The Universe’, Manikia
Ahhh! After a week in Greece, we finally got the climbing kit unpacked and clip some fresh bolts while hanging off a steep sunny cliff, at the sector called ‘All the Universe’. Excitement levels were running high! And I got to tie into our new rope for the first time – always a nice process.… Read more
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