The last stretch (Estonia – Latvia – Lithuania – Kaliningrad – Poland – Germany – NL)

2017-12-10 This day day I drove into Tallinn, walked around for a couple of hours, and drove out again. Good looking place with a cute, tourist filled, center. I found a nice hamburger place on the road towards Lithuania where I ordered a huge hamburger with fries and coke. After that I drove for about 320 km until I found a place in the forest next to the road. Another night in the car. The next Read More →

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Russia 2 Part IV (Barnaul – St. Petersburg)

2017-11-19 After some rest and social recharging in Barnaul it was time to hit the road again. I drove for 3 days. Driving – sleeping – driving – sleeping – driving and sleeping. Since I’m writing this a few months after the trip, I’m not sure about some details anymore. Pictures tell me I was in Omsk for some minutes to restock on food and take some pictures. I slept in the car close to Read More →

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Russia 2 Part III (Aldan river – Barnaul)

Time to continue this blog! 2017-11-05 In the last post I ended up besides the semi-frozen Aldan river. And it was getting dark. So I decided to drive some kilometers back down the road towards Yakutsk again but quickly became tired and hungry. So I drove off the road into the forest and started making some dinner. The temperature was below -30 and it was rather painful to hold anything metal during the cooking. Also it takes Read More →

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Russia 2 Part II (Vladivostok – Yakutsk)

An icy post. 2017-10-26 (day 283) The trip back to the “what-to-do?”-point took another 4 days. The route was exactly the same as the route to Vladivostok. 3 nights in the car between the trees, one night in Khabarovsk, in the same hostel. 2017-10-29 (day 287) A few kilometers before the junction it started snowing. It was also cold so the road quickly turned white. I turned right, towards Yakutsk. It was getting dark and the sky cleared Read More →

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Russia 2 Part I (Border @ Solov’yevsk – Vladivostok)

2017-10-10 (day 267) Mongolia seems to continue for a bit into Russia after crossing the border. Except, the road type is mainly tarmac, and the plains are more littered with old buildings and ruins. The first camp site was dark and cold. Winter was really setting in now. No more tent from now on I suppose. It all felt a bit strange, since the first main goal was to go to Mongolia, and that goal was met Read More →

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Russia I

2017-08-29 (crossing 24.000 km) The border between Kazakhstan and Russia went super efficient and all officials were very friendly. I was through the whole thing in about 2 hours, which, I think, is a record. The plan was to go to Barnaul, to get some more work done to Brutus, and after that continue towards Mongolia. It was possible to drive all the way to Barnaul, but I found a promising spot on iOverlander, and Read More →

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