Frontier Holidays Blog

I'm starting to think about trying to find time this autumn to further recce the Ports de Beceit area in eastern Spain. We had a fabulous walking holiday there this Spring. The group was made up by John and Frances Phillips from Edinburgh, John (old timer) Robottom of Solihull and Ian Booker (the dangerous dentist) from Rotherham. We were also accompanied by Jackie Chappell, a features journalsit from near Bath (you can see her article at www.frontierholidays.net/extra.htm ).

It was all new to me as my friend and local guide Luis Cebrian had promised for a long time to show me the "hidden gems" of his backyard. I've seen alot of the walking areas that Spain has to offer, but I never cease to be amazed by just how unique each area is to the rest.

Looking at a map it's difficult to get an idea of this compact and labyrynthine landscape. Not for nothing were the last of the Maquis still holed up here in the late 1950's.

Hmmm, well here goes.

This is the first entry for the Frontier Holiday's Blog. Blog, dog, fog. It seems that as the Spring season comes to an end, I'll be tied to the internet for much longer as this is our main link to customers and the outside world.

I hope that friends, clients and anyone interested in the Spanish countryside will add their thoughts, and queries so that we can eventually create a kind of forum where people with similar interests can get together 'online'.

For anyone who doesn't know me, a quick intro is maybe in order;
35 years under the belt, 18 years in Andalucia, 7 as a guide, 6 as a husband, 4 a father. The Christie family is Tracy, Sandy, Lucia and myself.
Can you spot a pattern, me neither?

Right now, Frontier is Autumn planning as we have several hiking, and bird watching holidays to set up.

This blog thing is probably as foreign to you as it is to me at the moment. "Perseverance is the father of all back strain."

Hasta Luego

PS An "era" is the Spanish for a Threshing Circle, and ours needs a clean up as it is still littered with firewood my brothers chopped up for us when they visited.

Callum Christie
Director Frontier Holidays