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From Black Forest New Year
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From Xmas 2022
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From Lundy 2022
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From Cap Blanc-Nez
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From Vertus, and Champagne!
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From Vallon de Berard
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From Les Gets & Morzine Downhill Mountain Biking
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From Chamonix Renovations
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From Old Man of Stoer
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
We’d hoped to be able to do some skiing in the Black Forest with our friends Rebecca and Mathias. But the weather was more like spring or autumn than winter … glorious blue skies, dry leaves on the ground instead of fluffy snow, and T-shirt wearing temperatures!
Hopefully Covid isolation, lockdowns, etc. are finally just a memory … back to normal with a big family Xmas dinner! Yum Yum!
Lundy is a special place – an island about three miles long and half a mile wide stuck out in the Bristol Channel about 20 miles off the Devonshire coastline; surrounded on all sides by sea cliffs and a marine wildlife sanctuary; an important sea bird (inc. the eponymous puffin) breeding location; isolated with no …
One final instalment to the Chamonix ’22 trip and the journey home – back when Ian and I went out to France in June we stopped in a super cheap hotel in Calais the night before our early ferry back to Dover. We ate dinner in a simple bar in town and noted that the …
It was time to leave Chamonix, the weather was poor there for a few days so an early escape from the rain promised sunny dry rock and adventure elsewhere. We plotted a route home via what looked like a very interesting limestone crag in the middle of the flatlands of the beautiful Champagne region…
The best day of weather was reserved for our first passion, rock climbing…
Equipped with full-face helmets, goggles, knee and elbow pads we’d arrived in Les Gets ready to throw ourselves in to the new (to us) sport and experience of downhill mountain biking…
Open fireplaces are not allowed in Chamonix rental apartments any longer so a massive renovation project was planned…
Stoping in Reiff we had an ideal opportunity to try and climb the Old Man of Stoer. However, we had awful weather for most of the week ranging from endless drizzle to full-on downpours! But just when we were losing all hope a single day of blue sky was forecast…
