Sovillan, Polopos Circular
A circular walk in the Sierra de Contraviesa, starting at Sorvillan and going to Polopos before returning.
Ice Cold in Gorafe
Just had to be my luck, didn't it? My first time hiking in the Gorafe Desert Badlands and temperatures were forecast to be below freezing. Now in my eyes, the words "Desert" and "Freezing" shouldn't go together. "Hot" and "Desert", that would surely be the norm, wouldn't it? The Desierto de Gorafe Geoparque lies some […]
To Blog or Not To Blog, that is the Question?
Writing blogs seems to be more and more a thing from the past, I guess partly due to the expanded influence of Social Media and everybody's increasingly busy lives? I know that when I write a blog it gets hardly any interaction from the public, certainly nothing as much as a nice photo of an […]
Lolloping along the Lentegi Sky Line
"We Came, We Saw, We Conquered", so they say. Well, one might change that around a bit and reword a bit. "We Saw, We Came and We Enjoyed" would be a better fit for this walk around the high skyline surrounding the village of Lentegi. Whilst on a previous walk on the PR-A440 a few […]
Blondie, Tuco, Indiana and the Demented Desert Dragon Tails
"Good job that lot didn't fall down 56 years earlier", I thought as I stood looking across to the the place where Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach had stood whilst dishing out the loot from a bank raid as Blondie and Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly. A recent rockfall had wiped […]
Cold fingers in the Contraviesa
The "beast from the north" had arrived and the weather was turning colder. The high mountains were out, so we headed for the lower Sierra de Contraviesa hills. We clambered out of our two cars and into the middle of the bustling village of Alcazar. Bustling? Well, if you can call a market stall, a […]
The Reluctant Pathbuilder and the Lentegi Circular
It's rather nice when you come across an area of natural beauty that had been overlooked and discarded by yourself, as not being worthy of a visit, despite living in that same region for over 20 years. These are magical finds. We came across such a find last Tuesday in the north-eastern reaches of the […]
The New Kitchen
Earlier this year we decided to update our old kitchen that had been installed sometime in the early 1990s. It was decidedly pokey and was desperately in need of some modernization. How on earth did I manage with that for 20 years! Together with our friend, Felipe, we used a company "down the road" in […]
Circular around Puerto Jubiley
Interesting circular walk from the Puerto de Jubiley today. Some impassable obstacles en route involved either a change of plan or swimming! We had planned on dropping down to the Gualadfeo and traversing alongside the Rio Trevelez before coming up the valley back to the Puerto Jubiley via Chris Stewarts house. According to Chris this […]
Rio Verde and the Petrified Waterfall
A circular walk around the head of the Rio Verde on a cold and blustery day. When I got up this morning it was 15C. A couple of hours later I arrived at the start point of our walk, only some 300m higher than Lanjaron above the Rio Verde. It was only 4C! with a […]