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From Austrian Cragging
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From New York
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From The adventure begins in Mysore
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From Southern India Odyssey
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From Cap Blanc-Nez
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From Vertus, and Champagne!
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From Great Glen Canoe Trail
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From Scottish West Coast Staycation
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From VW California Leisure Battery Replacement
Category: Adventure
Adventures not covered by other, more specific, categories.
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 …
Part of my interest in visiting the Gunks for climbing was also the possibility of seeing perhaps the most famous city in the world, New York…
The journey began as all adventures should – trains, planes, and automobiles: Derby to Birmingham, to Dubai, to Bangalore, and then on to Mysore.
Way back in January 2020 I had a little time on my hands. I had taken the first 3 months of 2020 off work and was due back at the beginning of April. I wanted to end the break with a holiday to remember, one full of activity and adventure.
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 second part of our Scottish Staycation was on the Great Glen Canoe Trail: over 90km from Fort William to Inverness…
One positive, if such thing makes any sense, from Covid-19 is that many people have discovered just how amazing parts of the UK are! Is there really any need to fly to far flung parts for our holidays every year? Well, I guess climbers always knew this as we spend every weekend, holiday day, etc. …
It wasn’t a very difficult job in the end, but with the help of this detailed walk-through of the process to replace the leisure batteries in a VW California the job was a piece of cake. In fact sourcing the new Varta LA80 AGM batteries from Tanya batteries was in some ways more tricky. Be …
