Today I hiked with Carlos from Chile to a monastery out of town set amid thick woods. The trail starts from the hostel and is very easy to follow until you get to the probably illegal building sitting ...
... Tuesday, a flurry of plans is being made on how to spend the time off work doing interesting things. So on Saturday I got a call from Veronica who suggested we should go for a hike in the mountains the ...
... making plans for an active weekend and hopefully a hike. I need to make up for last weekend that came and went, and left me quite disappointed. Why, though? I did odd jobs in the house, went to a social ...
... the weather is clear the view sweeps from the Rhaetian Alps to the plain. Open year round, at least at weekends, in summer and even in winter, it makes a coveted destination for hikers in every season, ...
... doesn’t look like it will clear up by tomorrow, so that our hike is in jeopardy.
If the weather is rainy or even only cloudy, it would be pointless to stump up the hefty entrance fee for seeing nothing. ...
... by the thaw waters of a glacier. It looms as an extraordinary pool of azure opaque waters in a stunning mountain setting. I hike for an hour along its shore amid the fur trees that border it all around, ...
... for a peaceful hike. The only comfort was that the weather was terribly muggy and wouldn’t have made very pleasant hiking.
From shop to shop, I went up and down the streets until I landed at one that ...
... this is nevertheless not the setting I’m used to find when I start a hike in the mountains. The ski slopes and lifts add to my feeling of heavily modified landscape and remind me of the perverse effects ...
What I am most glad about of today’s hike is that we decided to do it on Saturday rather than Sunday. It was one of those knackering experiences that need at least one decompression day of complete relaxation ...
The weather forecast wasn’t promising at all. Probably it wasn’t even reasonable to leave for a two-day hike, but we mustered the guts to make our plan come true in possible adverse conditions. After all, ...
... unmountain-like, but rather beach-like. Still from time to time she carelessly joins us for a hike, probably when enough time has passed to delete the memory of the previous knackering experience with ...
... However in this hitchhike paradise one doesn’t have to wait long and a young guy takes me in his Mercedes van to drop me at the crossroads, where soon I get a second ride to Sighet. I had an attempt at ...
Yesterday's hike left me with slightly sore legs, which is usual, and prickly eyes because it was a sunny windy day. I went up to the Laghi Gemelli hut from Roncobello, a couple of hours' hike, and like ...
... a pair, I decided on the day trip.
Sunday at 7 am looked like promising weather, a blue sky and crisp early morning air gave me a lift for a good hike. I drove the 60 km to Valbondione and parked ...
Yesterday, Andrea U. and I were undecided whether we should join a small group of other associates who had planned to hike to Piani di Artavaggio. The destination was not particularly appealing as the ...
I’d already been to Savogno, but when Diego proposed the trip I didn’t mind going again. The village is awesome and the weather was expected to be so good and warm that I would’ve done a hike even by myself ...
For the third consecutive Sunday we’ve gone hiking in the mountains in a weather that’s got better and better. This time it was cloudless, if not perfectly clear, and I’m very glad it wasn’t, because ...
... exquisitely relaxing atmosphere of this Indian piece of music. We were listening to this CD yesterday, after coming back from a hike in the mountains. The weather had been rather gloomy, no sun, but at ...
... time is 8 o’clock and I take my luggage to hitch-hike to Hajarayn. I have to wait nearly one hour before a car takes me, but I’m driven right down to the path leading up to the wonderful village on the ...
... is superb.
I hitch-hike back to Suqailibiyya, then take a microbus to Hama. I take a bed in a shared room at the clean, tidy and pretty Riyad Hotel,.
At dusk I take a few shots of the imposing nooriahs ...