Tag: alpujarras
Note – 2025-10-04 15:50
Been a bit out of my comfort zone today. Instead of hills and mountains I've had to do a cultural tour showing a lovely couple around my local home town of Lanjarón in the Alpujarras. So its the Arabi...
Note – 2025-10-02 15:57
Been playing with CursorAI today. Believe they call it . No doubt however that it's remarkably fast at turning ideas into websites. Here's my new website announcing the arrival of NomadNet, a mesh for...
Note – 2025-09-29 14:21
There's a village down there after all. Nice to have the first rains, since seemingly forever, today. Lanjarón, Alpujarras
Note – 2025-08-29 14:16
Next week 6 of us are planning a "Ruta Nocturnal", a 26km night crossing of Spain's Sierra Nevada from Pradollano in the NW to Capileira in the SE. Most of the route will be above 3000m altitude with...
LoRa mesh networks using Meshcore software
Building a local mesh network in the Alpujarras using Meshcore
Note – 2025-07-04 12:23
Traversing Spain's Sierra Nevada in under 4 minutes - short video of 2 day N to S crossing of the range from Pradollano to Lanjarón in July 2025. During this hike we also visited the source of the Río...
Backpacking in the Pyrenees
Our walking and backpacking trip to the Pyrenees to do the "3000 Ibones", including a road trip back home
Note – 2025-05-06 16:19
Today we've been exploring, amongst other things, the charming village of Fondales in the Taha del Pitres. Known for its traditional whitewashed houses, narrow winding streets & flat slate roofs. Like...
Note – 2025-03-29 10:20
Spring has arrived so it's time to fire up the sun oven 🌞. Today we are slow cooking a traditional meal here in the Alpujarras ... "papas al pobre" a tasty mix of potatoes and green peppers
Note – 2025-03-25 19:18
Deserts one day, high mountain snowshoeing the next. Today we have been above Capileira on our snowshoes. The snowshoeing is incredible at the moment, even though we had threatening storm clouds aroun...
Note – 2025-03-08 12:34
Enjoying reading "The Hand of Fatima" by Ildefonso Falcones. Follows life of Hernando, a young man of mixed heritage. Mother a Muslim, father a Christian priest. Born after the Morisco rebellion in th...
Note – 2025-02-02 08:32
The Moon and Venus above my town of Lanjarón near Granada yesterday evening. Not the best of shots as no time to set up tripod so had to be hand held unfortunately.
Note – 2025-01-01 08:26
As we had never been to these mountains before we called this walk "The Sierras We've Never Heard Of"! The Sierra Elvira lie just NW of Granada city. Good motorway connections mean the start is just 4...
Note – 2024-12-02 08:47
"You can see the pub from here" 😃 well maybe not the pub, but you can almost make out my house. An unusual image showing the location of the town of Lanjarón (700m) nestled on a small hillside. The Ta...
Note – 2024-12-02 08:32
I know it's not anymore but this was taken yesterday morning on a local dog walk with some friends. A big sky view with the mountains of the Sierra de Almijara and Malaga province in the distance. Thi...
Note – 2024-11-23 16:50
Beautiful late afternoon hazy sunshine highlighting the rooftops of Lanjarón in Granada province.
