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Galloway Sea Cliffs & Glenapp Castle

Tuesday, 1st September 2026

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary we’d arranged a very special stay at a very special hotel in Galloway. But before that we were slumming it in normal climber’s fashion and enjoying a bit of rock climbing on the fabulous sea cliffs around the Rhins of Galloway. Meikle Ross Our first climbing stop was Meikle …

Slovakia

Monday, 22nd September 2025

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…

Knockinaam Lodge

Sunday, 15th December 2024

As a very special pre-xmas treat Laetitia took us to the most amazing hotel for a complete five-star experience. Knockinaam Lodge is famed not just for its luxury accommodation and food, but also for its links to John Buchan and his book The 39 Steps; and to Churchill, who stayed here to plan parts of …

Austrian Cragging

Monday, 30th September 2024

On the way to Austria we stopped in Bamberg for a night. Not only did we snag a great German beer and Sausage dinner we also just happened to be in Bamberg during a music festival. The town was very lively! 🙂 Peilstein Our first destination in Austria was Peilstein. We had two days here …

Prague

Wednesday, 14th September 2016

Laetitia is working in Prague this week, another tour as a tutor on the Lead with Impact course. And so another great opportunity for me to take advantage and get to see parts of Europe I really don’t think I’d visit in normal circumstances…

12 years to Criffel

Sunday, 28th October 2012

Both Sarah and I had long wanted to climb Criffel...

Weekend Without Plans

Monday, 30th July 2012

Once I work in Romania for a year I have the chance to travel around the country...

Jersey

Tuesday, 26th July 2011

I have spent the last 11 weeks working in Jersey. For our international readers, this is a small island (9 miles x 5 miles) closer to France than England. Jersey isn’t actually part of the UK, but it is a “possession of the Crown”. In other words, Jersey has its own tax and legislation, but …

Baden-Baden

Monday, 30th May 2011

For our final day in Germany we planned a trip to Battert near Baden-Baden. We'd been here before on our previous trip and had really enjoyed the more familiar volcanic rocks...