Kiersten Rowland

There has been an avalanche at the Sierra Nevada ski resort, 3 were trapped but all were rescued. There is a video showing the dogs at work, people probing the snow for the skiers and them being dug out. Click this link to see the video

So you would have thought after a cold day up Veleta we would have had a day off . . .  but no we went up another mountain, a smaller one admittedly due to bad weather on the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada.

We headed off to Trevenque (2079m) and arrived in time to see [...]

We had a very cold day walking up Veleta this week. We arrived at the car park to find it under snow but sunny, within minutes of leaving the car the sun disappeared behind clouds and never came out again that day. We put on snowshoes as the snow was so deep we couldn’t walk [...]

Who says Siberian Huskys do not get on with cats!! I think these 2 get on pretty well. In fact the cat Taz, thinks she is a dog, she goes outside to have her food with them, she drinks out of their water bowl, she plays with them, she even sleeps in the kennel with [...]

We went to Capileira yesterday to visit some friends. We had been there about 2 hours when I received a phone call from a friend saying she had passed our dogs going up the main track!! I asked her to go and pick them up as we are out. We dropped everything and rushed back [...]

Ok so today we are living in windy Lanjaron in sunny southern Spain and its due to get very cold this weekend and even windier!!! Our temperamental aga is being put to the test today for the first time this winter as it is windy. On a non-windy day the aga smokes us out of [...]

So off go the 5 of us happy campers for a 3 hour walk in to the Caballo Refugio. We intended to use tents to sleep in and use the hut to socialise in. As it turns out the walk in took 5 1/2 hours in deep snow. By the time we got to the [...]

China feels much more powerful than before and wants to impose its rules on the rest of the world.

China has postponed a summit with the EU because several European countries are hosting the Dali Lama. China has warned the French president that his country risks losing “hard-won” gains in ties with Beijing if he meets [...]

Found this little chap in the swimming pool on Monday, luckily for him a big plastic bag had blown in so he wasn’t completely submerged. I fished him out, put him in a rocky area in the sun so he could dry out, warm up and slither off, which he did. Turns out he is [...]