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Really enjoying sleepinginthemountains, a fantastic blog from adventure travel writer Tim Patterson.

He’s just got back from Patagonia (and before that Uruguay), and HB picked up the thread of his time there from an article he wrote for worldhum.com.

Like much of his writing, it’s a curious, thought-provoking piece taking in reflections on Bruce Chatwin’s brilliant In Patagonia, branding and what it means to be a traveler in the 21^st Century.

“In the brave new world of a California-based search and technology information company, a California brand takes precedence over a place that is half the size of California.”

Nicely put.

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Camino del Rey

This amazing footage from brightcove of a couple of (ever so slightly crazy?) climbers filming themselves as they charge along the Camino del Rey has been knocking around for a little while now. Doesn’t make it any less cool, though:

The Camino’s down in Andalucia (near Alora in Malaga Province), and was built by railway workers at the beginning of the last century. These days (as you can see) it’s pretty dilapidated - although that doesn’t stop the climbers flocking to it.

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