Pinara ancient city
A marvellous, awe-inspiring place that makes you feel like a 19th-century explorer coming across the ruins of an ancient civilization. These ruins belonged to the Lycian people who lived here before the classical Greek period. The city was then colonized by the Greeks and Romans and like all the oth...
The first taste of Turkey
The border between Greece and Turkey follows the Maritsa River, therefore the border crossing is in the middle of the bridge. Compared to all the other crossings we had this was way more militarized and we've been checked by several agents both from Greece and Turkey. Our first stop in Turkey is Gal...
Natural reserve
After saying goodbye to Jira Wanni and Luca we quickly moved south to run away from the cold nights and rainy days. We found a beautiful place on the sea, inside a natural reserve near Athens. The beach was not so nice, but an amazing red pine forest and a swamp full of birds surrounded it. We had t...
Monvisia
This is by far the most beautiful and vibe-perfect place visited so far. It's a mountain island with a village on one side and a huge castle in ruins at the top. We started our trip from the parking lot at the end of the short bridge that nowadays connects the island to the mainland, no cars can ent...
Patras, the failed dream
We had big plans for Patras, the 3rd biggest city of Greece, and the second big city of our trip after Podgorica in Montenegro. A lot of shopping, for van life and winter items, visiting the historic city center, visiting IKEA and the first sushi after many months. Sadly, it's impossible to park a v...
2200 s.m.
Time to enter the southernmost region of mainland Greece, Peloponnese! As the first destination, we climbed to the staggering altitude of 2200m, reaching the Helmost Observatory on top of Mount Chelmos. And we started from sea level! They built an observatory here because the mountain is often above...
Piva reservoir
It's time to slow down, we reached our final destination against summer heat and August overcrowded places, Montenegro. We chose to enter the country from the north to avoid the 6-hour-long queue at the south crossing with Croatia, plus here at 1500m above sea level is fresh! Again the border crossi...
No mosquitos? WOW
We skipped Croatia. The plan was to spend the summer months here at the sea, but we quickly understood that it was too crowded and too hot. Besides that, campers are not very welcome in Croatia, so we drove almost 1000 kilometres to reach Bosnia. Apart from a fairly closeby forest fire, the border c...
Escaping the heat and stargazing
For the first night, we reached this beautiful and remote place in the Slovenian mountains, the right spot to escape the crazy hot weather of these days. Even here we need to park under the shadow of the trees, but at least during the night it's fresh, and even during the day is the perfect temperat...