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From Oxford Meandering
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From Leonidio ... again!
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From Leonidio
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From Slovakia
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From Stonesty South Crag
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From North York Moors: Escaping the rain in the Lakes
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From Meteora Pebble Dancing & Shower Dodging
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From Manikia Rock
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From Poor Languedoc Footwork
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
We visited Laurence and Beth in Oxford over the hottest week of ’26 so far. It reach over 34°C, so it was a good job the main entertainment water on the river Cherwell punting…
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 …
Yet another trip to Leonidio – it’s that good there! This time though I went with a gang of Slovakian based mates…
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…
Steve wanted to go to Stonesty Crag as he hadn’t been there before. I had been to Stonesty Summit Crag before and so I knew the walk up from Moasdale was a very tough and steep trek! But my warning wasn’t enough to put him off, so off we headed…
The bank-holiday weather forecast for the Lakes was pretty poor – continuous rain! So Laetitia spent some time looking around the country to see if anywhere else offered anything more appealing and discovered that the north-east was set to offer full sun all day Sunday, and sunshine and showers on Monday…
After our week in Manikia Jana and Laetitia had to head off back home to the Lakes. 🙁 But Nick had booked another week of lovely accommodation for us a few hours north in the utterly gobsmacking destination, Meteora. 😀 Meteora is like a scene from the movie Avatar. Incredible towers of conglomerate rock piercing …
Manikia is a newish Greek sport climbing destination, and it shows! I know it’s a bit of a cliche, but in Manikia’s case I think it’s justified to use, the place is totally unspoiled. There’s no litter, it’s clean, fresh, and very very rural. The place has a really fantastic vibe! Another cliche might be …
It’s been 10 years to the week since I first went to the Languedoc with Keith and friends. So I was quite excited to be returning…
