For the third time now, I’ve made the journey through the Caminito del Rey. The first was a terrifying passage, with questionable safety standards, but the second and third have been a much more organised affair. It was actually a cloudy start and was nice to recognise the rock formations that I’d sat under years… Read more

Took a day trip over to the National Park of El Torcal. A unique limestone ‘karst’ landscape on top of a high plateau at just over 1000m high. I had visited here on my first ever trip to Spain, so was keen to return and see how accurate my memory was. The limestone towers are… Read more

Google has not quite got its maps sorted around here – after negotiating some very narrow streets we finally drew the line at having to ford a river bed! Returning to some common sense and a good old fashion guidebook map, we soon ‘re-located’ the crag we were looking for and its allocated parking spot!… Read more

I always like arriving somewhere new in the dark, as we did last night. Waking up and heading onto the hotel balcony, this is the view that greeted me on my first morning in Spain. I’m back here in Spain, this time with a group of students, and we spent our first day just south… Read more

Another expedition is about to begin… a day of sorting climbing and trekking kit and checking passports and paperwork for the group I’m working with for the next week or so… A final ‘weigh in’ then next stop Andalusia, Spain… Read more

There’s been a light drizzle blowing in on a warm wind all day. We tried to go climbing over at the Llanberis slate quarry in the morning, but turned back half way there as the rain set in properly. Things had ‘sort of’ / almost, dried up in the afternoon, so we tried again after… Read more