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Nothing better on a hot summer Spanish day than home made cold Gazpacho soup containing vegetables from the garden - cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, cayenne peppers & onion. The bread was home made too. S...
Grumpy old mountain man living in Spain

Nothing better on a hot summer Spanish day than home made cold Gazpacho soup containing vegetables from the garden - cucumber, tomatoes, garlic, cayenne peppers & onion. The bread was home made too. S...

Definite autumnal feel to the morning dog walk. Lovely colors, especially when the first rays of the sun hit the hillsides. Cooler with a slight breeze. Maybe end of the early morning/pre sunrise star...

Arko hates his photo being taken but this morning he knows I've just baked him some liver cake for his walks :dancecooldoge:

Today's pick from the garden. Think some hot and spicy sriracha sauce might be coming up
I wrote a blog about our travels through the Italian Dolomites. It is quite a long and comprehensive read but the hope is it may help give information to others who are thinking of visiting the area....

I'm finding the bedroom via ferratas much more dangerous and exposed than the mountain ones 🤣

Some photos taken by a friend from today's trip between the Rifugio Puez and the Rifugio Pisciadu on the Alta Via 2
@[email protected] I was once hired to take a Russian photographer to the top of a remote summit so he could film the Milky Way. In those days no Photo Pills, but I did think he might have checke...

Benvenuti a Treviso, Italia 🤣 Treviso airport - thunderstorms in the Dolomites to the north

An early start today to walk the stunning Barranco de la Luna at Saleres before it got busy. Justifiably popular, an early start rewards with quiet and dramatic gorge scenery. Only problem is that it...

1/2 Sometimes when we head into the mountains, things don't always go according to plan. Yesterday, we ran into some tough challenges on a trail that was overgrown with waist high, spiky shrubs, leavi...

The view from our "dinner table" (a flat rock surrounded by soft grasses) a few nights ago as the sun started to set. All we could hear was the sound of the cascading waters of the Rio Lanjarón. Ahead...

Morning light on Cerro de Caballo (3009m) reflected perfectly in the small lake by Laguna de Nájera as we get ready to strike camp

@[email protected] it's 11am and its 100°C. It will generally cook from 10am until whenever we are ready to eat. Afternoon temp expect 150°C. We adjust the direction of the oven/shields if we wan...

Trumpet Gentian found on a hillside at 2500m in the Sierra Nevada a few days ago. Proper name I think is Gentiana alpina (or Southern gentian)

Yesterdays early morning start from our bivouac site had us ascending using an easy snow staircase that led up 400 meters to the ridge line. We arrived to meet the sun and walk the high ridges southwa...

First light reaches the mountains of the Alayos del Dilar group with Corazon de la Sandia prominent. Behind the outskirts of the city of Granada.

What a morning! This was our view when the suns rays reached us yesterday morning after a 2 hour ascent through the dawns shadows. In front of us the magnificent Cerro de Caballo, Europe's most southe...

"Don't Pack A Halfie"! Been transferring half empty gas cannisters to top up my small ones. Really works well using the Flip Fuel from https://flipfuel.co Good way to conserve weight and redistribute...