First Week on the Road
We've survived our first week living in the van with everything that entails. A lot happened and it flew by incredibly fast. Here's a rundown of the m...
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Off We Go Again!
The next week was all about returning home, spending a few days with family, and hitting the road again. Even so, we had several new experiences. We s...
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Meet Our IVECO TURBO DAILY!
I thought we should write something about our vehicle. We bought an Iveco Turbo Daily from 1992 (best year ever!). It's a loooong van with a fiberglas...
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Muránska Planina and Car Troubles
The next morning on the road, everything suddenly got a lot worse. It was overcast, drizzling, and pretty cold. On top of that, our battery charging s...
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How Janička Did All That Laundry
So it was one of those mornings when it looked like it wasn't going to rain and Leo had a lot of work to do. So I decided to do the laundry. Ignoring ...
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Crossing from Slovakia to Hungary
From Muráňská Planina we headed through Slovak Paradise, where we only made a very short stop, to Slovak Karst and from there straight to Hungary. We ...
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On the Road Through Northern Romania
Crossing the border was more fun than we thought. We spent half a day preparing – cleaning, mounting things so no cables were sticking out anywhere, h...
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How It All Actually Started
How might someone get the idea to live in a van? There were lots of reasons for it, and when we weighed the pros and cons, this came out on top. One t...
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By Hook or by Crook
...I'm coming for you with my Iveco! Yeah, sometimes it feels like driving through a field here... I think I've mentioned before that the roads here p...
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To the Black Sea (Which Isn't So Black)
The plan for our journey was simple: get to the Danube Delta and then south along the coast. Swim in the sea, enjoy the beaches, maybe even sunbathe. ...
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Fixing, Fixing, Tinkering, Tinkering...
What all has broken down on our journey? I'll only write about what stopped working after we hit the road, not during the conversion... even so, it's ...
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Bulgaria and Our November Sea Swim
After our bath in the sulfur springs in Romania, the weather got quite a bit worse, it kept drizzling and we had to start heating again. Plus Leo has ...
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We're Heeere - Greece!
At the borders we're already doing it like pros. Again admiring looks into the cargo area and Leo chatted so much with one customs officer that the ot...
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Through God's Mountains Almost Within Sight of Legendary Olympus
"Should we go for two days or one?" That's how our weekend started. On Saturday morning, in an attempt to get up early, we dragged ourselves out at ha...
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Following in the Footsteps of Monks and Seeking the Oracle in the Mountains
After the weekend in Mount Olympus National Park, we needed a bit of a break, to clean up, and plus another work week is coming, so we won't be sticki...
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What Does a Day in Van Life Look Like?
You're probably wondering what we do all day? Maybe someone thinks we're watching series, now that we have so much time. Which there would be enough t...
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Evia - Island of Peace and Natural Beauty
The next miles we traveled brought us to an island near Athens. The island of Euboea, which is the second largest in Greece. We said we'd drive throug...
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What Travel Brings Into Your Life
Someone's probably asking why we're doing this? Why do we travel? Like, why for so long when you have a life at home that you can dedicate yourself to...
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Snow, Athens Sickness, and Then Just Rain
From Euboea we headed to the capital of Greece - to Athens. We didn't want to go there directly, so we stopped in Parnitha National Park north of the ...
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Everything Van Life Brings You
What do you think about living in a van? Or what about a holiday in a caravan? Have you ever dreamed about it? And do you think it would be something ...
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What Affects You Most on the Road? The Weather, Of Course!
Have you ever traveled by ferry in Greece? And did you buy tickets yourself? We did! And for the first time it was confusing and a lot of unknown thin...
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A Bit of Trading and Dealing
In the last few days on the island we wanted to drive around the most famous Cretan monuments and cities to have a complete picture of the local cultu...
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100 Days on the Road and How We See the World Differently
We've been on the road for more than 3 months! And we've covered quite a distance, not just on the road, but we've changed a bit too. In the van it's ...
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From One Beach to Another
For many people, probably a camping holiday means much lower standards when it comes to hygiene. A holiday in a caravan probably smells like that for ...
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By Ferry Between Greek Islands
After landing back on mainland Greece, we headed from Athens toward Corinth and the Peloponnese. We didn't want to spend the night in the city, so we ...
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Cretan Monuments and a Disobedient Car
Lately we've been resting a bit more and not driving. During the week we parked somewhere on a beach and only thirst, hunger, or the weekend got us ou...
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Hygiene in a Van - How Easy Is It to Maintain?
What is it that motivates us to do what we do? What are we chasing after? Why do people do this and others do something else? Some work to earn money....
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First Impressions of the Peloponnese
As we announced in our last article, we've spent the past few weeks exploring the southern peninsula of the Peloponnese – Mani. This rugged region was...
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Parnon Mountains and Monemvasia
Our journey north from the Peloponnese didn't go quite as smoothly as we'd hoped. After crossing the impressive Rio-Antirrio bridge (one of the world'...
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It's late March 2020, and the world is changing rapidly. The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading across Europe, and we're watching the news more carefully ...
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Through the Mani Peninsula, Following the Spartans, and Beyond
After a few days under the trees on the beach, where we were neighbors with a German family on vacation, we headed toward the Mani peninsula. On the r...
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Troubles on the Way North and a Tooth Expedition
We have big plans for this week. Drive through the mountainous center across the entire peninsula north to the town of Kalavryta, stay there the whole...
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A Bit of Slowing Down Won't Hurt
We stayed at the previous beach until Saturday morning. We spent the week working and cooking, cleaning, exercising a bit, and also figuring out what ...
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Our Voluntary-Involuntary Journey to the Campsite
We stayed at the last beach for a total of 3 weeks. We tried to isolate ourselves and not stick our necks out. When needed, we went shopping, otherwis...
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Life in the Campsite and Our Prospects
On Saturday morning we were in a better mood than in the evening. Not for nothing do they say, morning is wiser than evening! After a slightly sleeple...
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How We're Living in the Campsite
Since we decided to stay at the campground, a whole week has already passed. The days are all quite similar and really flying by. The owner promised u...
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Times Are Changing
Days are adding up, another month has passed for us, and we're starting to realize how time flies. When we arrived at the campground, it was April 10t...
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Iveco Is Always Right
You can have whatever plans you want, but when the car changes its mind, there's nothing you can do about it. And so although we planned in detail, Iv...
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What We Do When Things Break Down
Given that we already have some experience with car repairs on the road, I decided to write this post about how to handle these situations. Whenever t...
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One Scooter and Two Maniacs
Since I keep raving about those mountains and that we're going there, we actually did it...we just didn't think through a few things. Like that it cou...
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Coming Home
I'm writing what is for now the last article about how we got back to the Czech Republic. The trip to Greece took us a month, back it was only about 2...
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