Renting a car in the hard working miners’ city of Kiruna with an idea of going to Norway for a week in a hired rorbu hut on Moskenes, the southwestern island of the Lofoten. And a road trip with a tent before and after that. We have had an incredible luck with the weather with eastern winds bringing sunny weather for a time long enough for us to make a few very satisfying hikes.
A busy week in two of the three Valli di Lanzo in Piemont: Val Grande and Val d’Ala. Lesser known Italian Alps.
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 […]
A week with a small private group in the Beskid Sądecki region, exploring both sides of the Poprad River valley and including a visit to the Małe Pieniny along the way. A spring break in the Carpathians!
The classical Norwegian postal ship route from Bergen up north along the coast and back.
Before embarking one of the Hurtigruten ships we spent a week in a typically Norwegian house by one of the furthest branches of the Sognefjorden by Marifjøra, making trips around the area.
Three lazy weeks in Valle Maira in Piemont. First, a week on the middle part of the Percorsi Occitani trail. Then, almost two weeks penetrating side valleys, based in an old Piemontese house.
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.
In the second half of our trip to Iceland in 2020 we went to the majestic Vestfirðir, the Westfjords, where we enjoyed an exceptionally stable fair weather.
We spent three nights in Hellnar on the Snæfellsness peninsula in the western Iceland and made a few trips around: views, waterfalls, beaches, churches, cemeteries, cafés…
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.
At the very beginning of our road trip to Iceland in the strange year of 2020, we have made a short side trip we have always wanted to do since 1990. Landmannalaugar, in the Iceland’s Fjallabak, the land behind the mountains.