Blog – Shepherds Leap in Portugal

Over the last month, I bit the bullet and contacted my cousin who I hadn’t spoke to in many many years, and asked her if she could source a regaton (the metal point at the end of a garrote that sticks into the ground) for me. My cousin contact someone she knew, an artisan regaton…

It must have been early 2003 when I first got to experience the Salto del Pastor. I had finished school and took a ‘gap year’ so I was staying with my dads side of the family – he’s from Gran Canaria. The boyfriend of a cousin took me out with a group of friends, probably…