Esterencuby – a grassy hummock overlooking mountains, 6km from Logibar Distance: 34km Elevation: 2140m (?!?!) Gear fails: Mat’s sleeping bag cover split (Shame on you, Sea to… Read more “Day 4: The day of many halves”
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Day 3: A frenzy of flies
Col d’Harrieta – Esterencuby via St Jean Pied de Port Distance: 42.1km (plus a couple of k’s extra looking for a campsite!) Elevation: 1550m Food: 1x CLIF… Read more “Day 3: A frenzy of flies”
Day 2: Mist and Mountains
Ainhoa – Col d’Harietta via Bidarray Distance: 30km elevation: 1960m Fuel: 2 squares of weird bread with peanut butter, pain au chocolat (yay for cafes that open… Read more “Day 2: Mist and Mountains”
What happens when critters and vanlife collide
What happens when creatures and critters invade the sanctuary of your van? Here are lessons from some of our wildest encounters… Imagine the scene. You’ve been out all day, checking out the… Read more “What happens when critters and vanlife collide”
Why Newnes really is everything money can’t buy
Sometimes driving to the end of a dirt road brings the best surprises. Exhibit 1: Newnes, New South Wales. There’s a sign as you come into the old… Read more “Why Newnes really is everything money can’t buy”
Run Review: Ultra Trail Australia
What is it? UTA is the ultimate in trail running. The event trail running was made for. The event you have always been training for, but didn’t… Read more “Run Review: Ultra Trail Australia”
What to do with Chestnuts
Thump, thump, thump. Chestnuts are falling thick and fast in High Country Victoria. But what on earth do you do with a bucketful of these mysterious nuts? Let’s… Read more “What to do with Chestnuts”
Is vanlife the new normal?
The one word that sums up our first week living out of a van? Nesting. We haven’t ventured far out of Melbourne – we haven’t left Victoria… Read more “Is vanlife the new normal?”
How to pack up your life in one month
Dreaming of packing up and heading off on a road trip for a year? It’s not as easy as you might think! We first realised we wanted… Read more “How to pack up your life in one month”
So you think you know how to cross a river?
My one fear coming into Te Araroa? River crossings. Shudder. If you offered me the choice of balancing over narrow, crumbling ridges and gravity-defying scree-sloped peaks or… Read more “So you think you know how to cross a river?”
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