Traveling has been a great passion of mine ever since my parents took our family for month-long trips to different parts of Europe in our summer holidays: England-Scotland (1990), Scandinavia (1991), Czechoslovakia-Hungary-Poland (1992), France (1993). We traveled with a VW Bus, slept in B&Bs or tents, and saw a lot of places I found terribly adventurous at the time. These trips infected me with an insatiable curiosity to discover places I hadn’t seen, and to hit the road whenever and wherever possible.
I signed up for driving school a few weeks before my 18th birthday and as soon as I passed my last exam went on a trip around Southern Italy in an old VW Golf. Since then I toured pretty much all of Central, Western and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece, but also Morocco (2005-2006, 2014) and South Africa (2011-2012). In 2012-2013 I blogged for the first time on a trip through Thailand. I began to write to keep friends and family posted, then started to actually like it. I tended to write at the end of a day on the road, when the impressions were still fresh. Sometimes orthography and style were imperfect. I wrote in simple english, so that everybody can understand me, although it’s not my native language.
2013 was the year of Eurasia2013. This journey took me from Madrid to Vladivostok and back, with an encore to Cabo da Roca in Portugal. My life has not been the same since that trip.
The desire to get back to the road has stayed strong ever since I came back. During Easter 2014 I did a quick raid to Morocco. Oman was another wonderful discovery in 2014-15. And a trip to Dakar was in preparation for some time, but ultimately didn’t happen. Same for a few other destinations. From 2016 to 2018 I lived in the US, and without a car I did more conventional trips.
In 2019 I finally hit the road again for a 90-day tour through Europe, Russia and Central Asia in my Mini. It was thought as a farewell trip with my road companion for over 15 years, but the car actually survived.
in 2021 I tested the limits of EV driving in Europe, touring 20 countries in 3 weeks in my Tesla. From Madrid to the Nordkap, the Balkans and back home I drove 16.000 km without range anxiety. The silent feel-good drive was spectacular.
Let’s see where the next trips take me. For sure they will be electric.
