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Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Postscript
Postscript Hotel Maristel, Estellencs Link: Hotel Maristel, Estellencs The Maristel is a pleasant hotel with good facilities. It’s in two parts. The main hotel is on the side of the road further from the coast and rooms at the back … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 6
Lluc – Pollença 12 October Stats: ascent 285m; descent 720m; time taken 5h 40′ For our last day we had a plan to climb another significant peak close to the GR221 – Tomir – but a combination of weariness and … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 5
Cúber – Massanella – Lluc 11 October Stats: ascent 680m; descent 930m; time taken 6h 50′ Mallorca’s highest peak, Puig Major, has military hardware installed on the summit and is not open for public access so aspiring peak-baggers have to … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 4
Sóller – l’Ofre (1093m) – Cúber 10 October Stats: ascent 1080m; descent 230m; time taken 5h 50′ After two days without a mountain summit one was back on the agenda – Puig de l’Ofre, 1093m. To get there we would … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 3
Valdemossa – Deià – Sóller 9 October Stats: ascent 960m; descent 920m; time taken 8h 15′ We were back in Valdemossa soon after 9.00 the next morning and had time for a short walk round the old part of the … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 2
Estellencs – Esporles – Valdemossa 8 October Stats: ascent 1170m; descent 920m; time taken 7h 30′ Jaume had warned us that today and tomorrow would be long days – no mountains, but plenty of up and down and many kilometres … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Day 1
Es Capdellà – Mola de s’Esclop (928m) – Estellencs 7 October Stats: ascent 860m; descent 735m; time taken 7h 15′ Our instructions for the next few days were breakfast at 7.30, departure at 8.30. And so it was that at … Continue reading →
Walking the GR221, Mallorca – Arrival
Arrival 6 October It was a long wait at the baggage carousel in Palma airport while the baggage handlers sheltered from a torrential downpour which soaked some of our bags. The rain had stopped by the time we finally got … Continue reading →
Northern Fells 2013
Perhaps it’s the black cover on the book, or maybe the warnings about how lonely and unfrequented they are, that have always made me feel a bit wary of Wainwright’s Northern Fells. But each time I’ve been in Keswick over … Continue reading →