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The next adventure – A land far, far away with fire breathing mountains

Posted by kierst - March 28, 2013 - News, Trip reports
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Kamchatka is somewhere I heard about many, many, many years ago, saw some photos and thought wow I’d love to go there. Little did I know that one day I would get the opportunity. Richard and I have been invited by Berghaus athlete Julia Pickering to join her on an expedition. The aim of the [...]

Read More berghaus, julia pickering, kamchatka, Kamen, Kliuchevskoi, Klyutchevskoy Sopka, spanish highs mountain guides, Tolbachik, Ushkovsky

I bet this puts a smile on your face

Posted by kierst - February 23, 2013 - china, News, Videos
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama shows us the real key to success.

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The Next Big Thing

Posted by kierst - October 3, 2012 - News
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Last week, I was tagged for a feature entitled “The Next Big Thing by Author/Photojournalist Dorothy Wills-Raftery. Dorothy is the author of Whats Wrong With Gibson, a book about one of her five Siberian Huskies who suffers from epilepsy. She also writes the very informative and beautifully illustrated FiveSibes blog. You can read all about [...]

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Golden Wedding Anniversary

Posted by kierst - March 31, 2012 - News
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50 years ago today my parents were married. Today is their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Next week we shall join them in the UK with friends and family to celebrate this mile stone. Happy anniversary mum and dad x

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Siberian Huskys need our help – Urgent action required

Posted by kierst - March 26, 2011 - News
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Watch the 2 videos and then please take a minute to email the address below. This is another sad situation that some dogs find themselves in through no fault of their own. We need to add pressure to the authorities to actually do something about this other than kill the dogs. The Spanish Kennel Club [...]

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Spanish Airport Strike Dates

Posted by kierst - March 12, 2011 - News
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Anyone travelling to Spain should be aware of the dates that the airports are planning to strike. The Spanish airport strike dates are: April 20, 21, 24, 25 and 30, 2011 May 2, 14, 15, 19 and 20, 2011 June 13, 23 and 30, 2011 July 1, 2, 3, 4, 15 and 31, 2011

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A wildfire at the end of the season

Posted by kierst - October 30, 2010 - News
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Today we have had our first and only major wildfire this summer. We nearly made it to the end of summer without one. I grabbed the point and press camera before taking the dogs out this morning, quite a normal thing for me to do. Whilst walking I thought I could smell smoke, I looked [...]

Read More Lanjaron, sierra de los guájares, wildfire

Gota Fria arrived again

Posted by kierst - September 18, 2010 - News, Videos
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Remember this? My birthday in September 2007 A Gota Fria is :- Gota Fria or ‘Cold Drop’ occurs when warm air saturated with water vapour rises and meets a much colder layer high up in the atmosphere. The sudden change in air temperature causes the water vapour saturated air to cool quickly and as a result the [...]

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4 of what I think are my best recent photos

Posted by kierst - July 27, 2010 - News, Photos
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Not alot to say about these as they are self explanatory. Hope you like them. Whilst taking photos from the roof terrace of Bee Eaters all hell started in the olive tree next to me, there was thud, flapping of wings and birds scattering all over the place. I noticed a bird jump out of the [...]

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Solar cooker

Posted by kierst - July 16, 2010 - News
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Harness the power of the sun, so we did, we brought a solar cooker! Its called a Sun Oven and was purchased from these people who run a very efficient site. It arrived late Wednesday evening and by the end of Thursday we had cooked Patatas a la Pobre and a whole chicken. The Patatas a la [...]

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