The Pyrenees Articles

Ski touring in the Pyrenees with David

Ski touring Canal Roya with David

Last week I finally got the skis out and headed out ski touring with our guide David. We've had beautiful sunny weather pretty much all January and this day was no different with brilliant blue skies overhead. We headed up to the Spanish-French border at Portalet which at 1800 metres and is a great place for ski touring or snowshoeing with a number of popular routes starting from there. David...

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A night at Camp Nou

A visit to Barcelona last weekend happily coincided with a Barcelona home match so I visited Camp Nou for the first time. What a stadium – I’ve been to Old Trafford several times and thought that was big but the 98,000 seater Camp Nou is vast. Up in the...

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