Casing the sun we directly went up north from Athens, travelling with a car in Greece is comfortable as soon as you’re out of the big city. Highways have tolls and country roads have speed checks but still everyone is driving fast and a bit crazy, I was just adapting to the locals 😉 In the end of our 5 …
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After 2 years I went again on a trip with my friend Eric, I met in Jordan and we already travelled Thailand and Cambodia together. So this time we decided on Greece. We met in Athens and went straight to the Acropolis, literally meaning high city, to see the ancient remains of the big temple called Parthenon and all its …
Continue Readingnach diesem großartigen sommer und einem letzten schönen fest mit guten freunden, das adäquat den sommer geschlossen hat, geht die reise los. sogar mein späti verkäufer wird mich vermissen und hat mich noch mit tic tac, skittles, bonbons und sonstigen krims krams vollgepackt als ich tschüssi gesagt habe. die guten wünsche aller menschen um mich rum und die rege beteiligung hab ich …
Continue ReadingThe final stretch. From Freiburg northward, straight through familiar names and familiar stress: Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Bad Hersfeld, Jena, Leipzig, and finally home. The whole A5, then the rest of the route I know by heart. Eight hundred kilometers. Rain forecast. End of school holidays. A long day was guaranteed. Traffic confirmed it immediately. The autobahn turned into one continuous ribbon …
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The night was wet. Properly wet. Rain and thunderstorms swept over the meadow by the motorway, behind the strip of forest and the railway tracks. Cars hissed past in the dark, wind shook the tent, and sleep came in fragments. Still, by morning the sky had cleared to an improbable blue. Sunlight hit the fabric, steam rose gently, and the …
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October 3rd began with wind. Proper wind. Stormy gusts that stayed with us all day, pushing grey clouds across the sky at speed. Eighteen degrees at best. Summer was officially no longer interested. We left Millau and pointed the car north, grateful that the motorway in this sparsely populated stretch was free, at least until somewhere around Clermont. A small …
Continue ReadingThe plan was to reach the sea one more time. At least in theory. First, we said goodbye to Moritz, the dog, who in the morning had very clear ideas about how the day should start. Mainly with throwing pinecones. Repeatedly. We complied, then left him behind and rolled down the valley, passing through small, friendly towns, steadily descending, steadily …
Continue ReadingIt was time to step away from the city routine and back onto the road. Northbound this time. Further south would have been tempting, originally even planned, but some ideas don’t survive contact with calendars. Not on this trip. Our next destination was Andorra. Getting out of Barcelona took about an hour, mostly because the city prefers farewells that involve …
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The sun reappeared, conveniently just as we crossed back into France. An interesting coincidence. At nearly 2,000 meters altitude, light broke through above the mountains, and then we began dropping fast. The road carried us downhill through grey, seemingly abandoned villages clinging to the slopes, steadily toward the valley. It was immediately warmer than Andorra, brighter too, and somehow more …
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Es war ein nahtloser Grenzübertritt. Außerhalb der EU schon über 3000 km sind wir gefahren. Das kleinste Land liegt im Tal links und Rechts Berge, Tankstellen, überall der Sprit ist wesentlich günstiger ein paar Häuser graues Wetter viele Menschen 20° warm aber nichts gegen die tollen spanischen Temperaturen, Werbetafeln, Einkaufszentren, nichts aufregendes und einladen des Tanczik Tourismus und aufgrund der …
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Amazing pics
Sunrise and sunsets are probably the best-est of times to explore Hampi. It looks like a veritable lost world and…
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