Grand Ventron, May 2023

A short overnight trip to the protected massif of Grand Ventron (also known in German as Winterau) in the Vosges (vel Vogesen) Mountains offered a chance to experience the special atmosphere of the French-German borderlands. However, rather than dwelling on the imperial history of unnecessary conflicts, this journey was about appreciating nature’s recovery from human […]

Gorce, June 2021

Staying in two cottages in the Polish Beskidy Mountains, we repeated a lot of our routes from the past in the Gorce range and in the neighbouring Pieniny and Beskid Wyspowy, with a short trip to the Polish part of Spisz.

Kaldidalur, August 2020

After a day in Fjallabak, we drove from the Þjórsá river valley to the Snæfellsnes peninsula via the majestic Kaldidalur route between the huge Langjökull glacier and the Ok mountain (its glacier had already melted…), visiting on the way three fine waterfalls.