Winter Short Stories

It’s that time of year again. All the things we could’ve blogged about but didn’t because it wasn’t long enough, or we were busy, or whatever. What have we been up to? What haven’t we been up to? We leave in exactly 10 days and we are not handling it very well. Our days are spent skulking […]

The Coast of Misery

It’s actually just called ‘The Basque Coast”, but I like my name for it better. Our hike in Durango hadn’t been super long, just super vertical. When we woke up we felt fine, but later we discovered that our leg muscles were trashed. And of course we had planned a coastal hike right after we […]

Ireland Part 3: The Causeway Coast Way

Not to be confused with the Causeway Coastal Route, which is for drivers, the Causeway Coast Way is a 31 mile (51 km) path from Portstewart to Ballycastle. Our original intention had been to hike the ENTIRE coastal route, but we just didn’t have the time. So we chose the choicest bits in the middle, and […]

Staycation Weekend Part 2

Part one is here. On our second day we hiked to Arta, and the third day we went on a hike. Following this map we are in Cala Millor and will follow the yellow line through Son Servera to Artá. Cala Millor to Artá The next day we woke up and dealt with the problem […]

Staycation Weekend Part 1

We recently had a long weekend off of school. Carnival (you know, that whole Mardi Gras thing) collided with the Day of the Balearic Islands (celebrating our islands becoming a recognized autonomous community). So we got lucky with Thursday and Friday off. Schools get 2 fun days (like snow days) they can apply to any […]

Vacation Inception: Visegrad

After spending so much time in the capital getting jostled about by tourists we decided to get out of town for a bit. We did this with more than a little apprehension. Setting aside an entire day for a day trip while on vacation is a bit risky. It’s like planning a vacation while you […]

Visiting Alcudia

Two weekends ago was important for two reasons. First, it was my birthday. Second, it was a national holiday in Spain. And because those two events coincided just perfectly, we decided that we needed to do something special to take advantage of it. We both really wanted to go for a hike, so we did […]

Andalucian Road Trip: Day 4 – 18 Miles and 18 Waterfalls

The only thing we really wanted to do in Cazorla National Park was hike a very famous trail “Rio Borosa.” Everyone’s pictures look like this: Beautiful, clear water with a winding old wooden path alongside of it. It’s not a very long path and most people just use it for the swimming holes. No matter […]

Gibraltar

We mentioned we had been thinking about going to Morocco from Tarifa. We ended up going to Gibraltar since it’s almost equally close. Plus, to get to Tangier, we would had to have taken an unreliable ferry to some port city, and from there take long long long taxi ride into the city center. It […]

Guadalmesi Redemption Hike

Turns out swimming (naked or otherwise) in ridiculously cold water is really good for muscle soreness. We had been chalking up 14 mile days here and there. We weren’t sure if we would have the energy to retry the hike to the Guadalmesi Tower hike we had started on the first day. The first day […]