Back out at the coast today, teaching on a Mountain Training ‘Rock Skills’ course. It was another beautiful day, but the slight breeze gave a nippy edge to the temperatures, reminding us that it’s still only April. After getting back home, Clare and I had dinner together before driving out to Dinas Dinlle, to catch… Read more

An absolutely mad 48 hours of so of travel, with very little in the way of sleep! I slipped quietly into the swimming pool at 02:30am by the light of the moon in order to wake myself up for the drive back to Malaga airport. We were on one of the first flights out of… Read more

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