Kiersten Rowland

A Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog of mine and I hope you like the new look of it.

Christmas was a quiet affair here at our cortijo in Lanjaron, but we did manage to cook ourselves a proper Christmas dinner which was great. The dogs had the chicken that Richard didn’t manage [...]

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

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 [...]

2,000,000 cats and dogs are sadistically skinned alive every year in China for their fur and left to die slowly in shock and excruciating pain.

WHY - “Because” say the Chinease “its easier to skin live warm animals”

Please Help Us STOP such Horrific
Animal Cruelty. Together, Let’s Stop
This Sickening Trade.

Please visit Animal Saviors and sign the petition. [...]

Well this is the latest and last bit about my finger!! We were out in the mountains when the last stitch fell off my finger and showed me exactly what id done. As you can see from the picture it doesn’t look much for all the fuss that it caused, how can so much blood [...]

Spanish Highs had 4 clients on Wednesday and having had lots of snow they were split into two groups, 3 for winter skills/alpine introduction with Mike and 1 for ski mountaineering with Richard. We thought it would be a good idea to take Khumbu and Bruno along as well, with me on snow shoes, and [...]

Well who would have believed it! Great race for a change and how brilliant is it that Ferrari missed out Did you see their faces when they thought they had won only to be told, nope its not you its Hamilton. Can anyone tell me why the Brazilians were booing Hamilton, just shows what [...]

We have been having some work done on our swimming pool as it was falling down, turns out there were no foundations supporting it so Jorge, Mike and Emma have been helping put it back together again.