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My favourite 10 hikes of 2017

I don’t know how it happened, but 2017 is gone. Man. This year was an epic year for hiking. I spent a month hiking around Iceland and I did some beautiful hikes in France, Germany,…


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Major hikes

From time to time I set off for a longer, multiday hike. Not long long, but long enough that I can slow down my life and enjoy simplicity of hiking over a few days. From…


Day 4 of GR 132: Valle Gran Rey – Vallehermoso

We got the top of the cliff La Mérica, 650m, in about 1 hour. With the section we walked the day before it’s 2 hours of very steep ascent. I’m getting used to magnificent views from every top here…


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Long distance walks

Long distance walks really fascinate me. It’s just so natural, romantic and free to be out there exposed to the weather whims and walk. You have to pack your world into a small backpack and…


My favourite 10 camps of 2017

I have told you about my 10 favourite hikes of 2017, now it’s time to sum up my favourite 10 camps! The year 2017 was an epic hiking year for me so there was a lot to choose from. What is kind of tricky, is that I often stealth camped, which naturally means setting up a camp after the dusk, dead tired


Two good days of hiking the Cathar Way in the winter

The Cathar Way is a roughly 240 km hike in the south of France, one of my favourite places in the world. It follows the historical sites of the Cathars through the Eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, passing through villages with stone houses often at least a few centuries old.


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Hiking guides

My hiking guides are not really standard hiking guides. They’re full of pictures which are overexposed and jokes which are not funny. I still hope that they could be helpful for someone. Difference between my hike…


Three days hiking in Macizo de Teno, Tenerife

I’d say that Macizo de Teno is a unique place within Tenerife but that’s a bit misleading since pretty much every place in this small and unbelievably diverse island is unique. Let’s make it clear then: it’s a green but barren place, touristic but remote and very hot but really cold. Let me explain. Slowly…


Hiking in Anaga Mountains of Tenerife

Anaga, Tenerife, can’t be described, it must be lived. Hiking there feels like a forgotten dream, or an old memory that you don’t remember, but sometimes find yourself feeling, “Wow, this is familiar!”…


SL TF 294 extension from Malpaís

Let’s face it: “SL TF 294” is not a sexy name for a hiking trail at all. The good thing is though that it’s a loop trail which is not very common within the hiking trails of Tenerife…