Tuesday 19 July 2022

Biding Our Time

The road goes on - and we must follow if we can
 It must be approaching six weeks since we left Croatia to sit out the summer in the UK. We have had a couple of very pleasant trips away, a couple of weeks in the Yorkshire Dales and a nine day visit to North Wales. Colin came along for part of both trips so we manage to get a good amount of climbing done, often on crags new to me, which is always a plus.

Noggin (HVS 5a) at Noggarth - somewhere new
Perhaps the biggest development has been that we finally got round to submitting our application for a 180 day French Visa. We went over to Manchester to pass the paperwork over and two weeks later got the call to go back for our passports, we were pleased to see that they contained a big shiny visa covering the period from September to March - YES! 

In other news, the UK has just broken its all time temperature record (39.1C) as I write this in a rather steamy Rhyl.

We had hope to get up to Lofoten in August, but with Covid rampant yet again and utter chaos at UK airports we are not so sure if it is a good idea - time will tell.




Around the Loop

Snowshoeing at Beille We left the Costa Blanca with some misgivings, we had been there quite a while and were well settled, plus I wasn'...