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
Let’s see if I can produce a nice, clean, to-the-point post for once. Probably not, but I’ll give it my best shot. I should have published this article way earlier, when it could have been useful to people looking for outdoor options, while we could not leave the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The state of … More 155 – 4M & Confinement Hikes
Disclaimer no 1: for the snow in Spain winter hikes, scroll down. I know I have recently been hinting about posting an article about some of the material worthy of National Geographic that one inevitably comes across while trying to causally date the opposite sex. Or any sex, really, I trust that people interested in … More 154 – Poscia, più che ‘l dolor poté il digiuno
Sorry folks, I am a little behind with the blog, as I still need to work my way out of 2020. Pretty much same as all of us, I’m afraid, as nothing suggests things may get significantly closer to normal any time soon. Speaking of which, my mysterious fellow melomaniac neighbour doesn’t seem too convinced … More 152 – Patones de Arriba
In most countries, “a bridge” refers to any type of construction that connects two points over an obstacle. In Spanish, Italian and possibly other mediterranean languages it also means a situation where a bank holiday falls close to the weekend, so you “bridge” the day in between, when you’d normally work. This concept is unknown … More 151 – El Puente
Kacenka on the road 