Bobby Gilbert Adventures

Nicole and I did a quick trip to the Ogwen Valley in the camper van on the evening of the 19th of December. We set off after the Gilbert Christmas pub lunch and arrived…

This was a weekend of extremes of luxury. Extremes that ranged from hot baths with champagne, dressing for dinner, cocktails by the fireplace, to gale force winds blowing us off our bikes and horizontal…

We stayed on the Greek island of Spetses for a long week,18th-29th September, next door to Sally’s sister Jane. We hired mountain bikes. It was the perfect size island for a relaxing week with…

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The 3rd of July was our final full day. We packed up and left the Soča valley to drive over the border into Italy to the Lago del Predil. Had a lazy picnic on…

From the 30th June to 2nd of July we found a great campsite near Kobarid in the beautiful Soča valley (location of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms). We did a bit of cycling, a…

Hot on the heals of our success on Prisank we had a pre-dawn start on the 26th June for our 2 day climb of Triglav. At 2864m the highest mountain in Slovenia. You aren’t…

23rd June – We set off on our first big climb, Prisank (A.K.A. Prisojnik) at 2547 metres. We had a 5am start before it got HOT! (Limestone turns into a bit of an oven…

We arrived in Slovenia in the early afternoon of the 21st June at Kranjskz Gora and immediately got our bikes out for a ride up white roads to a point on the hilltop ridge…