Our base in Swakopmund was the “Alte Brücke”, a luxurious campsite, where we not only had our own bathroom with hot shower but also our own palm tree for some shade. We came here a couple of times, explored the town, did some shopping and went on some of the tours on offer when we …
We started the new year in Side/Turkey, from where we travelled back to Greece and immediately to Italy. We explored the South of Italy for a bit and then returned to Austria to prepare for a new continent. We spent the Easter holidays with our son exploring the Normandy before we finally dropped our camper …
We thought this time we would be able to explore the Roya Valley up to the Col de Tende pass and use this route to go to Cuneo in Italy. We had already intended to come here in April 2018, but back then, snow had made it impossible. We didn’t know that in October 2020 …
In Spanish restaurants you will often find, that you can choose between fish or meat, that’s it! Salads are always on offer, but usually some kind of meat or fish is a part of it. And when you order a bocadillo vegetal, it usually contains tuna, which doesn’t help either. But of course, you will …
We had reached the Costa de la Luz at Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. The earliest archaeological remains are from the 8th century BC, as it was founded already by the Phoenicians. As Cádiz is situated on a narrow slice of land surrounded by sea‚ we started our walk around it along the …
With Llerena and Zafra we visited two towns with lovely historic centres, city gates and beautiful places. The whole area was in the hands of the Order of Santiago after the Reconquista. The Moors were driven away from the area of Llerena in 1243 by the Spanish-Portuguese general and Grand Master of the Order of …
Jerez de los Caballeros and Fregenal de la Sierra – two lovely small towns, disregarding their long names, which we soon might have difficulties to remember. But that’s what this blog is for! As we are at the border region to Portugal and Andalusia, you find strong city walls and castles in every town. The …
At this National Park named after Urho Kekkonen, the late President and Prime Minister of Finland, we had reached a landscape typical for Lapland: bare hills called fell which we went to explore. On the Kilopää fell a species of birch which grows only on the Kilopää and Saaroselkä fells. It has a twisted and relatively …
On December 28th 2019 we had arrived back to Athens and were heading to Turkey, turning around at Alanya (our most eastern point so far) about 500 km west of the Syrian Border. We turned inland to go back to Greece, which we crossed to Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and back to Albania to go …
We had left Austria shortly after Christmas 2018 and celebrated the New Year in Javea, our Spanish home town. We travelled through Spain and Portugal before we returned to Italy and South Tyrol for some hiking. We visited the Abenteuer Allrad in Bad Kissingen in Germany and the Globetrotter Rodeo in Austria. We went on …
