A great day’s walking this one. Met a lass, Carolina, at breakfast who was also looking to do some walking and we teamed up for the day which turned out to be as very good thing as the chat was good and it helped stop me from going too fast as I have a habit [...]

Following the wedding of my friend Angel Faus in the towns of Besalu and Olot a couple of weeks ago I headed to the mountains. This entailed getting a bus from Olot to Ripoll….

….and then a train from Ripoll to Ribes de Freser to catch the rack railway to Nuria (1954m). The Valley of Nuria [...]