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It is actually quite funny to think that I ended up with an army van although I never had anything to do with the military. In fact, back in the day when the drafts happened for compulsory army service, I even opted for a longer duration of civil services instead. But nowadays, after a long […]
Step by Step Guide to Winterize a Campervan After a wonderfully sunny summer of driving through the back roads of southern Europe, the unavoidable question arose of what to actually do with the campervan during the wintertime. Initially the idea had been to simply sell the van after the trip and to retrieve all the […]
Packing for a camper road trip was actually not an easy task, especially if you had never been on an extended camping drive before. Not being limited to a backpack, it seemed all too tempting to bring things along that were not really necessary. So figuring out which items were actually really needed and worth […]
Everybody has learned in school about the D-Day, or the Operation Overlord as the invasion of Normandy in France was officially called. But visiting the actual locations where British, Canadian, French and US troops landed on June 6th in 1944 and learning about the longest day in history that ultimately lead to the end of […]
The Self-made Camping Bulli Idea This had always been a dream for me. Actually ever since receiving my driver’s license the idea had existed of simply buying an old Volkswagen van, called Bulli in German, converting it into a camper and exploring Europe independently. But as often the case with dreams, they sometimes don’t quite […]