Defender Tours

September 16, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Almost 12 months

We’re getting close to being on the road for 1 year. On 26-September 2017 we left Winterthur for a trip into a new life. At that time we didn’t know what to expect and we had no detailed plan of where to go. We were open to recommendations of people we met during our trip, […]

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Time Travel

… as usual the photo gallery can be found at the end of the blog entry 🙂 The benefit of not having a fixed route is – not having one. We really fell in love with Romania, it’s people and landscape. We had a great stay at Mustang Camping in Câmpu Cetăţii where we’d been invited […]

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Romania – at last

After all those years talking about visiting Romania, we finally got here. And what a great country this is. Before we entered Romania we felt a bit like entering Albania. All these stories about cars being stolen or people begging for money and food. None of those turned out to be true. We entered Romania […]

August 1, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Freedom

Waking up in the morning feeling great, with no pressure, no business meetings or conference calls waiting, being able to travel free and without limits – that’s freedom to us. We’re now heading east. When we left Rosenheim, our original plan was to reach Romania within 2 days. But our first stop in Grosslobming turned […]

July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Sabotage!!

The more you plan, the more you get hit by surprise. Our plan to leave Switzerland on Wednesday (18-July) for Germany was sabotaged my Matschig Mike halfway between Winterthur and Sankt Gallen. It looked like Mike had fallen in love with 4×4 Manufaktur and wanted to return one more time. A(another) loss of cooling fluid […]

July 16, 2018July 16, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Wedding-ups & car break-downs

… as usual the photo gallery is at the end of the post 🙂 Weddings are great, especially when celebrated in good weather and attended by nice people. Both statements were true for the wedding of Camilla’s younger sister and Hakan our new brother-in-law . The location (Seefugium), which looked like la set from „The […]

June 28, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Rooftop Nomads

After 2 weeks of staying in a solid building (and enjoying the luxury of having a private bathroom) we were back in our rooftop tent and on the way to Stadtoldendorf to attend the Rooftop Nomads Festival (Dachzelt Festival 2018). Despite a cold front that moved in bringing lots of rain, the festival was a […]

June 9, 2018June 23, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Drive Less – Live More!

… could be described as our current motto. After Uzés we spent a whole week with our former neighbors and very good friends in Winterthur. It was strange coming back after 8 months to a place where we lived for 13 years. We still love Winterthur but it was also clear to us that we […]

May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Quiet Days

During the last 7 months we never spent much time at one location, I mean that’s what exploring is all about. For almost 3 weeks we are now in St. Quentin-la-Poterie and swapped our rooftop tent for a quite luxurious little pool house. Uzes which is only 6 Kms away meets every cliché of a […]

May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 swissvisionaryLeave a Comment

Seven

There are seven days in a week. There are seven notes to the diatonic scale. There are seven letters in the Roman numeral system. Number seven is the number of Neptune. Number seven is lucky for Cancer and Pisces. In the Tarot, seven is the card of the Chariot. September means “the seventh month” in […]