Everytime I need to switch off and relax, I abuse my friend Isaac’s generosity. Isaac owns a weekend home on the other side of the mountains, less than 2 hours of drive from Madrid, in a little village abbandoned by almost all permanent inhabitants and ignored by every mobile phone provider. Which is perfect when … More 174 – To Paradise
There is really not much to say about this last stretch of this year’s stage of Ruta de la Plata. At this point, the region is so neglected and so abandoned that many villages don’t even have a bar. Tragic. That doesn’t mean that the route is boring. Not at all. You just need to … More 173 – Camino Season 2 Episode 3
This post brings photos from the second part of this year’s Camino: from Granja de Moreruela to Villar del Farfón. The landscape becomes more interesting with rolling hills and lush vegetation. Well, what is left of it, after the wildfires that devastated vast areas of the region of Zamora last year. We will be walking … More 172 – Camino Season 2 Episode 2
Following the brief introduction into the western world’s ultimate pilgrimage during Easter weekend ’22, this spring I rejoined the journey where I abandoned it last year. I am not a very good pilgrim: for starters I am not walking the entire camino in one piece, lack of holiday being the major reason. I also cannot … More 171 – Camino Season 2 Episode 1
The western coast of Canada has been a rare destination that I’ve been coming back to on semi-regular basis in the last decade, ever since Ornella, one of the most extraordinary women I know and am honoured to call a friend, decided to leave her life in Italy behind and try her luck overseas. I … More 166 – Bear Spotting
You know the drill: for the hiking stuff, SCROLL DOWN to the sentence in red. If you don’t, consider yourself warned. The Italians reading the title will instantly know the first two verses of the tercet – and those of you who know me will just think: “Oh, here we go. Again.” Yep. Correct. Indeed, … More 165 – E Ciò Sa ‘l Tuo Dottore
For hiking info, kindly scroll down Warning: this is going to be a long stream of unconsciousness and is not going to make any sense, least of all to me. Apologies for that. Someone once wrote that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and trusting them not to. Google search attributes the … More 162 – Clouds in My Coffee
Winter is finally here. This is a rare on-time post, because I happened to be out in the mountains last weekend. It doesn’t mean I am not behind with this blog’s content, but while posting photographs from summer when it’s freezing and dark outside may seem nostalgic, publishing snowy pictures 5 months later would be … More 160 – Winter, finally
Beginning of January and I am now officially 5 months late with my blog content. That is assuming that I will be able to finish this post before Epiphany. I mean the religious holiday, of course, I am sadly not expecting any ground-breaking revelatory event in my life anytime soon. That goes for any other … More 159 – Venite, Adoremus Dominum
This is a flashback post to my holidays in Verdiago last July. For people unfamiliar with this blog, Verdiago is a tiny village I discovered in 2020, when Spain was just coming out of the first wave of Covid-19 and one of the harshest confinement in Europe. We would not be allowed to come back … More 158 – Improvised Hiking in León
Kacenka on the road 