My own Everest

by Akis Temperidis | February 28, 2021 | Diaries, Norway | 0 Comments

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 -20º C with love

by Akis Temperidis | February 1, 2021 | Diaries | 0 Comments

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...

Never say never

by Akis Temperidis | December 12, 2020 | Diaries | 0 Comments

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

by Akis Temperidis | November 28, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway | 0 Comments

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?

by Akis Temperidis | November 25, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway | 0 Comments

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...

Northern lights hunters

by Akis Temperidis | October 30, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway | 0 Comments

The first time is very special, almost like an incredible gift of nature. The second night you start believing it's true. And soon you get addicted. It was September 27th, the night we parked on the lakeside gravel road that crosses Koli national park. Koli is at...

Life below zero

by Akis Temperidis | October 23, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway | 0 Comments

It’s not only tricky driving on ice. At temperatures below zero - we had down to -6 in the last two nights - we face different other problems, which test ourselves and our Iveco’s systems. We are OK with that, we will survive and we already enjoy arctic clima. But we...

Iveco on the rocks

by Akis Temperidis | October 19, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Norway | 0 Comments

It’s only 19 October and here is the first snow. In Lapland of course. We spent two days at Hetta, the last village in Finland, before entering in Norway. We were nicely accommodated at a parking lot downtown with 220V outlets. Yesterday we crossed the border on the...

We saw Aurora Borealis

by Akis Temperidis | September 28, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Finland | 0 Comments

Yesterday we saw Aurora Borealis for the very first time. From 62nd parallel and inside the Koli National Park of Finland. We were wondering all these days - Vula in particular - that sooner than later we would see northern lights. Personally I was not confident it...

Humans in harmony with nature

by Akis Temperidis | September 22, 2020 | Diaries, Europe, Finland | 0 Comments

Repovesi National Park. Finland. The first of many we intend to explore in Finland. We don’t want to write much here - you can see on our pictures what is this place about. We would only like to tell you 2-3 things about the park’s regulation, which will give you an...