For some reason we decided to repeat our water woes on the last day. After waking to a strange buzzing noise caused by a blanket of insects throughout the forest we failed to refill our bottles at the stream. Half an hour later we made the same mistake and then, after drinking almost the last […]

At some point I should try and figure out why 70% of my mornings begin with a climb. Possibly because of water although in this case Angelynn pointed out that they always steer the GR routes through the towns. Worth it for last night’s dinner and wine. This morning’s climb was also of mention because […]

All my dreams have come true…..well, except for that one where there were murderers using art as bait and the tunnel through the hill we had to climb this morning. But quite a few of the others have. We started at our camp at 1900m this morning and slogged up to 2100mish before ending at […]

A somewhat bizarre day. We sat down last night a went through the maps again, and our goals. The problem was that the next day was fine but the two after that were well over two thousand meters which we wanted to avoid due to pregnancy. This left us in the slightly silly situation of […]

Bit of a bugger of a day with a lot of up and down but not much progress made.  It started off OK and we hiked down the valley and started up the other side. The other side was a lot longer and higher and it maybe took three hours to get to the top.  […]