August  2024

Hi we have great news! We are back on climbing again. We hope that these last 2 years of very little climbing will be behind us. Jan with hid shoulder injury (osteoarthritis) and Sandra with having surgery for her lower leg adjustment avoiding a spot of osteonecrosis in her knee. She had a 9 months recovery period. Nevertheless we did not give up and aimed for coming back to climbing again. This vacation in August we went to the Alpes in the South of France to do some sport climbing. We made a video for you how we explore some nice rock climbing locations around Guillestre with a small approach distance. In the video you can find craggy cliffs to breathtaking views, we'll show you the best spots to climb in this beautiful region around Guillestre. Thanks god Sandra is Climbing Again 😀 

April 2024

Discover a story of love, recovery, and adventure while climbing the rocks around Mollans sur Ouvèze in the south of France. Join us for stunning scenery, delicious food, and challenging climbs! Sandra is rehabilitating from her knee surgery and I try to climb with a shoulder injury. We made this plan just to enjoy the sunny weather while being in house already for 6 months. The love for each other and for Climbing give a healing motivation for both of us. We enjoy the nature and the scenery of this area. I used the mountain bike to do some easy tours around Entrechaux. It was wonderful and we cooked nice meals in our small cottage apartment. The Provence is so nice. 

August 2023

Sandra had having a hard time recovering from her knee injury, so we had to find alternative activities to help herself back on as quickly as possible. Especially Swimming is a great way to help promote healing and recovery physically as well as mentally. Sandra was swimming and Jan was biking and rock climbing in the Guillestre area. Sandra was still injured in her knee so could not walk properly so we had to change our activities a bit to enjoy our vacation. Well it was wonderful and more relaxing but exiting trip on Jan's old bike and Sandra swimming to keep fit! Please watch the video!

July 2023

Sandra was still injured in her knee so could not walk properly so we had to change our activities a bit to enjoy our vacation.

Well it was wonderful and more relaxing but exiting trip on Jan's old bike and Sandra swimming to keep fit!

This time the actvities were different. We discover Guillestre's unique Mountainbike tracks and stunning Rock Climbing landscape. We made a video from it. 

This video is a great way to get out and explore Guillestre, France – one of the most stunning villages in Europe! We'll show you some of the best bike tracks in the area, as well as some of the most beautiful rock climbing routes in the region. 

July 2022

Hi beautiful people we went on vacation in the area area of Guillestre and Briançon in the south of France around the Alps. We did some new rock climbing adventurers in several crags sectors like Mont Dauphin, Simoust, Tournoux, Clapeyto and Rue de Marques. There is such a variety of different rock: limestone, granite and conglomerate. I made a large fall 10 meters from a slippery pebble and had to heal for a couple of days. We invited some young ladies from the camping to go for their first climbing experience. We mainly had good weather with sometimes a rain shower but mostly very nice. We enjoyed the food and environment on our camping. Please leave us a comment if you want any information from us 😀 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Sandra and Jan.

May 2022

Celebrating the 60th birthday of our friend Peter. We the team we went to the Belgium Ardennes and had a blasting weekend in a marvelous Gite in Geskes. We enjoyed 3 climbing areas in the surroundings and did a great barbecue evening on the Saturday. Durnal, Burnote and Beez, great weekend with food in Jezus Eik 🍖.

May 2022

Our week in May in the Provence. We rented a Gite in the village La Penne Sure Ouvèze. A great week with ups and downs. Great and less good weather but overall a nice break from home and work. We did quite some challenging routes and enjoyed the surroundings with wineyards and beautiful rocks. Please see our Youtube movies 🤩

March 2022

This is our first post Corona and after healing our injuries climbing holiday in the South of France. We always love the area of the Provence. Nice atmosphere and beautiful scenery and lovely wines. It was still chilly in April but we enjoyed the sun when it was there. We also needed our winter clothes when the sun was away or it was freezing. Nevertheless we had a wonderful climbing holiday and it was good to be back on track. Needless to say we still need a lot of training to come to our own level again.

Look at the sky and different level blue tones in the pictures.

August 2021

Hiking through nature of the alps in (Switzerland, Austria, France) with splendid views over valleys and mountains. Adventure while camping and climbing, which includes being caught by the rain shower when climbing or in the night a heavy thunderstorm. We made some YouTube videos' about it so please watch them, even better give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel and push the notification bell so you will be notified. We can guide you here in this area. Please send us a note if we can help you or write some article about it

August 2021

Climbing in he south of France, the Val Durance area with place's like Briancon and Guillestre in the Alps.We made many video's in this area where you can find all kind of rocks. Like limestone, granite and conglomerate.We made video's of the weather and the circumstances when you are on a camping trip.If you need advises, please leave us message and we will help you.

December 2018

We had a 2 weeks climbing holiday in Leonidio. Leonidio is a great location for fantastic climbing. Near to the coast and perfect rock.

We had a nice holiday house and cooked our selves diner and fired the wood-stove on every evening.

We will defenitly come back and to spend more time in that wonderful place. 

Stay tune when we start to travel to Greece again

December 2017

On the picture you can see Sandra climbing in Guadalest in (Costa Blanca) Valencia, Spain.It was the perfect weather to climb a great rough rock. In the evening we make dinner in the outdoor kitchen. If i remember correct we make paella with clamps and octopus, it was dilicious. Jummy.

October 2017

We are back again in Kalymnos, Greece. Now climbing the overhang called 'Divine Comedy 7a' in the crag called 'Sea Breeze'. We had a wonderful holiday with plenty of sun for October. We met two ladies where currently making a van tour through Europe, which we follow on the internet. This was a very nice occasion fort hem to join us on our climbing trip. We must say that the van tour was born here😀.

October 2016

Sikati Cave in Kalymnos, Greece. It's a climbers wonderland! Climbers from all over the world come to visit this island for the perfect an unbelievable rock. Here you can see Jan in the magnificent route called 'Morgan' 7b+, a 3D rock formation with a very steep of 45 degrees. With a overhang down in the cave with nice Tufa's are. In the picture above you don't see Sandra, but she is further down. In de picture on the right you seen Sandra down below. We hope to come here once again, and hopefully soon.  

This picture is just to give you an idea about the scale of the Sikati cave. See the small indications where Jan is climbing and Sandra is belaying 😍. Needless to say it gigantic! 

April 2015

Cadarese Italy Crack, crack , crack, crack.

Yes we admit we are crack addicts, no drugs but real crack Climbing!!!!!!

La Freccia crack

Cadarese is the must go to location for crack climbers. Very nice rock with adventures walks uphill.

July 2014

Climbing in the Provence with our fiend Peter.

This was a real adventure as we broke our rope in half by a falling stone. Thank god we saw this on time when we lowering Sandra back down. Only 3 string remained of the rope. We had to buy a new rope to complete our holidays. All in all we had a great time and did some wonderful routes in Carcades in Dentelles de Montmirail.

October 2010

Kalymnos is always a great adventure to visit. Super steep routes on Tufa's or colognettes. Driving thru the country side with a scooter and meeting the locals and their goats.Amazing country and climbing spot in the world. We ant to go back again for a longer period

October 2009

Climbing in Geyikbayırı Turkey is great. Nice tufa climbing on steep overhanging rock is amazing. We stayed in Antalya which was great to see the difference between city culture and the village culture in Geyikbayırı. The local markets with fruit, thee and delicious Gözleme. The colours are wonderfull.

In our hotel we were figurant for an advertising video for a travel company. 😀 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋‍♂️

Augustus 2008

Nideggen in Germany is a well known climbing area with amazing conglomerate rock. Every time climbing here you will have to get used to picking the correct pebbles and hope they don't break out.

We did a lot in Nideggen and I have even climbed on the "Burgwand" when it was opened for just one year. Nowadays a lot of crags have been closed by the nature goverment to protect the flora and fauna. We met the old route builders in their 70's still fighting to open the crags as they had built the routes themselves.

The lady even used an rollator to come to the crag 😀, very brave.

Nevertheless still worthwhile for a visit and climbing the classics

July 2006

Frankenjura, the increadible climbing area in Germany where Wolfgang Güllich put sportclimbing on the world card! Amazing hard routes on limestone with a lot of variety. We went there with a half broken car that was slow but we made it. We camped on a farmers camping with a food cellar under the ground, amazing. We met lots of young talented climbers from the Netherlands and the rest of the world. We could manage some 7b+ as well in the area (Saftfeld)It is still on our wishlist to go back but there are so many other locations that we want to visit so we have to put that on a waiting list 😃.

May 2005

In this year our first official sport climbing adventure started in France. Gorge Du Tarn is a wonderful gorge situated in the South of France. The river the Tarn has made this Gorge to a wonderful sporting and living area. The Gorge consist of limestone, mergel and dolomite.

We drank cheap fresh Wine from local vine-guard farmers with low alcohol which replaced bottles like it were milk bottles.

For the evening we cooked trout on the barbecue, the trout was catched in the river and harvested to big fish for consumption.

This was the first sporting vacation without knowing that a lot more will come one our way 😍❤❤

May 2004

Monalisa Klaxon 7b on Louis-Philippe in Freyr Belgium.
Limestone Rock

One of my nicest routes I have done in Freyr which took some tries back in 2004.

Good memories.
Belayed by Henk and pictures taken by Erik.

I was introduced to "FREYR" by  Wim Schriek a early dutch climber that did most of the routes in Freyr with the old grading system.

I learned to respect the particular way of standing on your feet and facing hard graded routes with some wide spaced bolting in the Belgium way.

Nevertheless I and later we enjoyed the surroundings and the view onto the Meuse from the top.

Great 😅

June 2004

Sandra on her world journey in Montserrat in Spain. She was traveling to Spain and South America on her own for 8 months.

Montserrat is a mountain in Catalonia Spain about 50km Northwest of Barcelona.