Two Million Stones
The GR221, Mallorca - October 2013
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 →
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 →
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 →
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Food & Wine Food There’s not much to say about the food on our journey. For lunch we bought rolls, cheese, ham, sausage, cakes, fruit and so on where we could or bought filled rolls from bakers’ shops. The local … Continue reading →
Malerweg, Weinwanderweg Malerweg The local tourist board markets this part of Germany as “Saxon Switzerland” (“Sächsische Schweiz”). It’s like Switzerland to the same extent that Crawley is like Prague. But it does have a unique landscape of towering sandstone bluffs … Continue reading →
Corso Reisen, Travel, Maps, Hotels Corso Reisen Clive had booked the holiday with Corso Reisen, a German outdoor holiday company he had used before. They provided maps of the route but no written instructions, arranged our hotel accommodation and organised … Continue reading →
Dresden – Radebeul – Meissen Dresden to Radebeul, 27 May We’d walked into Dresden alongside the Elbe. The route out headed north away from the river and through Dresden’s urban sprawl. It was the Sunday of the May holiday weekend … Continue reading →
Pirna to Dresden 25 May This third day was the least enjoyable of the holiday, for me at least. It was rather warm and we spent virtually the whole day walking through suburbs on tarmac roads, first through the outskirts … Continue reading →
Although hardly Famous we were definitely Five: Clive, John, Stuart, Tom and me.* A 4.00am start, a bus, a plane, a taxi, a train and another taxi had taken me to the village of Krippen with the other four. Krippen … Continue reading →