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Our Sweden Road Trip Itinerary: Powered by Nature
We’ve ventured the roads of Sweden twice: From Sweden’s southernmost point Trelleborg to the Norwegian border. Based on our two trips, we compiled an itinerary and, in this post, we will share our easy Sweden road trip itinerary with you. It combines the best of the best we’ve encountered on both trips: great hiking trails and kayaking routes, best campsites for wild camping and cosy vacation rentals.
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What Is Van Life in Sweden Like?
Twice we cruised over the roads of Sweden with our Land Rover Defender. In this post, we are going to tell you what living a van life in Sweden is like: Is it safe? Is wild camping legal in Sweden? What should you be aware of on your road trip through Sweden?
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Planning a Norway Road Trip: 7 Things You Should Know
Having spent 3 weeks on the road in Norway, we summarize our experience and write about things you may want to know getting ready for your unforgettable road trip in Norway: scenic roads, hiking trails, wild camping, toll and customs and much more!
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Norway Itinerary: Powered by Nature
Norway’s tourism motto “powered by nature” reveals that nature is the country’s most valuable tourism asset, and we absolutely agree with that! We united our favorite places in Norway into an itinerary: it consists of national parks, fjords, waterfalls, scenic roads, and idyllic villages. Following our footsteps, you get to see tundra, arctic desert, and glaciers, and your path may cross with that of moose, reindeer, free-roaming sheep and prehistoric furry cows – muskoxen.
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An Epic Europe Road Trip: Across the Balkans, Cappadocia and the Caucasus with a 4x4
A year ago our epic road trip with the Land Rover Defender we had bought from the British Royal Air Force started. It was also the starting point for this blog as it started with a day by day documentation of that trip. We travelled to 12 countries, 11.000 km in 1,5 month. It resulted in a number of adventures, funny stories and wonderful acquaintances we squeezed into ca. 40 blog posts.
Now, a year later, we think of the time spent on the road and evaluate the trip. In this blog post, we want to share the highlights of our trip, name the potential dangers, pros and contras of travelling Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Turkey by 4x4 and what it was like, to live in a Defender for 6 weeks.
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10 Lessons Learned from Our Road Trip to the Arctic Circle and Beyond - in Russia
We had an epic time on our road trip to the Arctic Circle, exploring the northern wilderness in the European part of Russia: Karelia and the Kola Peninsular. This part of the world has everything we are fond of: pristine nature and it is far off the beaten path. There is room for both peaceful contemplation and wild adventure.
We are up to summarize our experiences into a series of articles. Maybe it will inspire you to put the Russian North on your bucket list or if it's already in your plans, our stories might provide you with some travel tips and a sample itinerary.
This first post is devoted to the things we learned on this trip: some of them were more or less expected others got us by surprise!
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Berlin to Georgia – Day 42 - 43: The Carpathians
In this chapter, we try to do some off-roading in a land made of off-road roads and it turns out to be harder than one may think! On the other hand, our path crossed with that of a bear's.
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Berlin to Georgia – Day 16: From Istanbul to Cappadocia
That day we discovered a perfect place to camp in a valley of fairy chimneys! But it was a long way to get there. We left Istanbul at 8 am and at around 6 pm and 750 km behind us we reached the Ilhara valley in Cappadocia.
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Our Land Rover Defender
On this page, I’d like to tell you about our truck called Wildebeest (short: Gnu) who has accompanied us on our trip to Georgia. I think that a Defender is a great choice for an adventure vehicle – the cargo area is long enough to sleep in (about 2m) and you still have lots of storage space under the bed.
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Berlin to Georgia – Day 3: Italian Alps, Slovenia, Croatia
Gnu, our lovely Defender here, has a story of its own if I may say so. When we got him from the British RAF he was rather tattered and you could see outside in places where you really shouldn't be able to - which is to say that rust and other, possibly more sinister causes, had left their mark.
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Berlin to Georgia - Day 2: Italian Alps
Confucius says: the better the road is, the faster you go, the less you see. The worse the road gets, the more you see, the slower your journey will be. Having read that, dear to-be subscriber/friend/guest, you are sure to be intrigued and stay with us during this 45-days-long trip so that you can get some more of this Confucius-style wisdom.
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