For me, feeling good about something is often to do with the gap between what I was expecting and what happened.  The experience is better ...

We had already decided that we were going to finish our trip at Abetone so today had that end of walk, anticlimactic feel to it.  I had ori...

If the weather had been just a bit better today would have been the perfect walk. Reception area at the Hotel Melini

The autumn mist returned with a vengeance today and again we couldn't see a thing. The first task was to get up to ridge and onto a r...

I guess it's something to do with a military career but Chris does like to keep up appearances. A couple of things worth noting: first...

Bit of a frustrating day today, the weather was poor, we got lost a couple of times, and to be honest I'm just starting to get a bit ti...

Lack of accommodation at both Badia Moscheta and Passo della Futa meant for a short four hour walk to Passo del Giogo. Of course we did ma...

We did toy with idea of walking back up from San Benedetto in Alp back up to the GEA but if I'm honest we didn't toy with it for lo...

Today was supposed to be an easy walk but somehow we managed to fill all the available daylight time, a sort of Parkinson's law adjuste...

Last night I finally had to admit defeat and accept that tomorrow's planned walk was too long. Because we are staying about five kilom...

I'm starting to think that my schedule for the walk might be just a bit too ambitious. Instead of the anticipated but still fairly mass...

Apart from the fact that I seem to have lost, for the time being at least, the ability to publish yesterday's blog, everything went wel...

Good first day but a lot longer and tougher than I had anticipated and by the time we arrived at the hotel, at about 7.15, what little ligh...