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
The departure
Your stomach feels squeezed... Even if you have convinced yourself long ago that you are destined to reach the ends of the world in a...
Carnet de Passage needed!
After a few days in our hometown Thessaloniki, it's definitely time to depart for central Asia, now equipped with a state-of-the art...
How is life in Odessa, Ukraine?
If you arrive in Odessa coming from Moldova, you simply can’t imagine what lies at the seafront. Moldova is considered the poorest...
The country that doesn’t exist on map
Have you ever heard about Transnistria? Pridnestrovia maybe? I admit I’d never heard about till we entered Moldova. And since we visited...
A capital city which seemingly is a huge mall
If you travel in rural Moldova, you will soon understand that there is nothing interesting to keep you there. Till you arrive in...
The Dracula’s castle
If you ever go to Romania you will certainly visit its No1 tourist attraction, the Dracula Castle in Bran. But is it worthy the trip? Let...
A time machine to the Middle Ages
We didn’t know Sighisoara, as a town, as a name or whatever. A fellow greek overlander, Yannis Yannopoulos, who is on his ultimate...
We could live in Sibiu
I admit I had a completely different perception of Romanian cities. I imagined them grey communist relics with loads of traffic jams and...
Transfagarasan!
It’s hard to spell and to remember the name:TRANS - FA- GAR - ASAN! It literally means it crosses the Fagaras mountains. These are part of...
Taking a break in Sofia
If you live in northern Greece - let's say in Thessaloniki - you can arrive in Sofia in just 3 hours from the straight motorway and the...
Our first week in Bulgaria
Hello from beautiful Plovdiv - the ancient Phillippopolis - of Bulgaria. This is our first week in the country but it seems as if we left...
09.09.19
The time has come, right? Our departure date is fixed. Let's see if we can really make it! 9 September 2019 we intend to leave...
Destination central Greece
After 40 days in Thessaloniki here we are at Metsovo village, maybe the most visited in the whole region of Epirus. We skipped the modern...
From Santorini with love
The landscape is magnificent. The island is continuously under construction. It's probably the most beautiful island in the world. It’s an...
Best wild camping at Nisyros
Nisyros, the volcanic island of the Aegean archipelago has a relaxed atmosphere and transmits a very special energy, also thanks to the...
Two months at the Aegean sea
I write this while we wild camp in a lovely place, the Vathy - or Rina - port of Kalymnos island to celebrate two months of travel around...
Bye bye Crete
We spent almost a month in Crete and believe it or not it was not enough. We calculated we lost almost a week isolated in our camper for...
Arrived in Agios Nikolaos
Moires town was a great opportunity for Anastasia to meet new friends and a new teacher. Our daughter was welcome at the 2nd Primary...
