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From Bluebird K7 Returns to Coniston Water
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From Leonidio ... again!
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From Sauze d'Oulx
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From A Lakeland Family Christmas
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From Staveley Santa Ride
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From Leonidio
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From Cheaper Electricity with Octopus
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From Slovakia
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From North Wales Rock has arrived, Wired's Final Guidebook?
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Last Monday was a big day for the story of Bluebird – the iconic water speed record jet engined boat returned to Consiton Water to be re-floated there for the first time since the fateful 1967 crash that killed Donald Cambell. Laetitia and I thought we’d make the trip to Coniston to witness this small …
Yet another trip to Leonidio … I guess I must like the place? 😀 This time I went with an extended gang of Kendalian climbers (Tim, Cherrie, Graham, Pete and his son Ben who joined us for a few days, Neil, and Greg). We met up with Ed, who had already been in Leonidio for …
1999 was the last time we visited Sauze d’Oulx on the Italian side of the Alps. That year we had super-sunny weather. Sauze is, as-the-crow-flies, maybe only 80km from Tignes/Val d’Isere on the French side of the Alps, but the conditions couldn’t have been more different than it was there, or how we found it …
Another family Christmas in Lakeland! Before that though James and Oliver accompanied me to Kendal’s Unit 34 bouldering…
I was on my own at this year’s Staveley Santa Dash…
Yet another trip to Leonidio – it’s that good there! This time though I went with a gang of Slovakian based mates…
Alongside our adoption of solar panels to get free (when the sun shines) electricity we have moved to Octopus as our provider…
I had hopes of seeing some ex-soviet brutalist culture when visiting Slovakia. In that regard I was disappointed. Slovakia, despite being very far to the east – just about as far east as Europe goes, is best described with just one word – beautiful…
I have just received an advance copy of the latest Wired guidebook, North Wales Rock. Wow, what a great book! In my humble opinion this is the best looking guidebook to rock climbing in North Wales ever produced. 😉 Published under the Wired brand by the Climbers’ Club this will likely be the last ever …
