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 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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Armenia (& Nagorno-Karabakh) part II

Each time I want to stay in a city for just a few nights, I end up staying a few more. In Yerevan it became 4, again in an Envoy hostel. The 3rd day there I went to Geghart monastery and Gorni gorge with Jennifer.   The day after Jennifer (Sgp), Jess (Aus), Steffi (De) and me went to Khor Virap. This is one of the many awesome Monasteries out there. Khor Virap means deep Read More →

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A nostalgic roadtrip to Sweden and Norway

On the 17th of february my brother JR, Dieuwertje, and I embarked on a 4500 km trip to Trondheim and back. We and Brutus started driving in the morning at around 9:00, after some shopping and filling up on diesel. First, we would pick up JR in Zwolle. He left Terschelling very early to be able to meet up in Zwolle at around 10:00. This worked out perfectly according to plan, so at 11:30 we Read More →

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