Driving in Miami

Let's take a 40' drive from Wynwood to Miami beach!

Stegastein, the best balcony in Norway

The spectacular Stegastein viewing platform with panoramic view 650 metres above Aurlandsfjord.  This is a bucket-list trip for any visitor to Flåm. The platform, which juts out 30 metres from the mountainside, 650 metres above the fjord, offers an unparalleled...

Oslo during Covid-19 lockdown

We didn't drive our Iveco in Oslo since the city is a no-go zone for a diesel truck. We borrowed our friend's Tasos car and parked it next to the greek embassy, from where we walked for a few hours downtown. On this short video you can see Oslo closed like never...

My own Everest

Last Sunday I watched Greek alpinist Antonis Sykaris' live facebook transmission, who had just returned from Pakistan as a member of an international climbing expedition on K2, one of the most difficult mountain in the world. edited in English by good friend Dimitris...

From -20° C with love

ºPolar night is over and it was an experience for us. Since the sun rises again over the horizon and days get longer every day, in remarkable pace at this latitude (about 18-20’ per day!), we feel much better. But we have left the Norwegian coast and now move on the...

Northern lights over Lofoten

158 images in 37 minutes for a 7-second timelapse video. Shot outside Eggum fishing village, January 2021. It was a cold but bright night and uniquely spectacular as you can see...

Live report from Svolvær, Lofoten archipelago

Exactly that was the first day we saw the sun rising in the horizon and we took our Iveco for a ride around Svolvær, the picturesque capital of the Lofoten archipelago. 

Never say never

While reading messages on our facebook page and on our livemedia.gr reports, besides witnessing the admiration and wishes for safe travels from most followers, I noticed a phrase that 3-4 different of them wrote...   Vaguely the phrase was: “thank you for doing...

Alta to Tromso, 5 days road

Five days to cover 400 kilometres? An average tourist might have done it in a single day or maximum two, winter time. We could be still driving for five more days. In anyway this is a breathtaking route. The national road E6 twists, climbs, descends and extends next...

When did you enter Norway?

Finally we met fellow overlanders - this was only the third time since we entered Scandinavia two and half months ago. A couple from Germany, friends of our friends with a monstrous 4x4 truck fitted with a 15-litre, 450 hp engine, automatic gearbox and a full-size...

Trip log

Our monthly destinations, kilometres and expenditure.

May 2021

Islands, medieval castles and an independent state in Sweden !

April 2021

A pandemonium of fjords till the iconic Atlantic Ocean Road. Welcome spring!

March 2021

Arrival to Oslo. But we keep exploring the southern part of Norway.

February 2021

Life at -20°C in the mainland. And a turbo failure.

January 2021

Lofoten islands. The first sunrise. The arhipelago is absorbing.

December 2020

Polar night. Tromso and surrounding islands. And northern lights.

November 2020

Winter tyres please. We drive to Kirkenes, to Slettness Fyr and finally to Tromso.

October 2020

First snowfall and ice driving. And yes, we make it to Norway and to North Cape.

September 2020

Time to explore 1000s of lakes and pristine national parks of Finland.

August 2020

Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and finally the Baltic. Lithuania.

July 2020

In the end of the month we depart from Greece. Destination Nordkapp.

June 2020

Time to travel again. Let’s take a trip to Epirus, the mountain region of Greece.

March 2020

Turkey – Georgia borders closed due to covid-19. We return home, in Greece.

February 2020

Covid-19 outbreak find us in Cappadocia, Turkey. All borders in Asia start closing.

January 2020

We welcome 2020  in Istanbul, Turkey and then proceed to Asia Minor.

December 2019

Finally departing from Thessaloniki. Direction Turkey and central Asia.

All diaries

Letter from Lithuania

Letter from Lithuania

This is our third night in Lithuania and a reason I feel a weird calm inside. How do I explain this state of mind? First, it’s the...

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Cycling in Warsaw

Cycling in Warsaw

Big cities are avoidable the way we travel. They are a pain in the arse to find a proper place to park for the night, to evacuate our...

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Covid-19: The Road back Home

Covid-19: The Road back Home

After a 2.000 km fast forwards - but backwards - journey from eastern Turkey to the border with Greece, we made it into our homeland. ...

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Stop. Breathe. Think. Act

Stop. Breathe. Think. Act

This is not neccessarily a call to meditation but a basic lesson I learnt in my scuba diving courses, years ago. It's valid in most cases:...

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Why is Kaš so special for us?

Why is Kaš so special for us?

We feel happy we made it to Kaš for a single reason: three kms offshore this Turkish resort town lies Kastellorizo, the easternmost island...

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From Alaçati to Sirinçe

From Alaçati to Sirinçe

These two villages may be apparently totally different - the first is on the coast while the second on a mountain - but they are both...

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Izmir on my Bottecchia bike

Izmir on my Bottecchia bike

We stayed three nights in Izmir but forgive me for not having taken any quality pictures from the city to show you…  The reason is I was...

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A tour of Pergamon

A tour of Pergamon

Almost all people who visit Bergama - the Turkish name for the ancient city of Pergamos - they do it for it’s well preserved Hellenistic...

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We love Ayvalik!

We love Ayvalik!

Read here why we felt home in only three days we spent in Ayvalik! It feels different than any other resort town thanks to its low...

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A glimpse of Çanakkale

A glimpse of Çanakkale

We stayed two nights in Çanakkale, the major port on the Dardanelles straight, battlefield of the 1915 "Dardanelles Campaign" and still...

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We got a Carnet!

We got a Carnet!

Good news today in Istanbul: we have just received our brand new Carnet de Passages issued by TCS - Touring Club Suisse! Everything worked...

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