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Cilician Gate – Once a Difficult Passage

Cilician Gate – Once a Difficult Passage

Cilician Gate - a term surely familiar to many travelers to Turkey is, in the literal sense, a natural geographical feature: a mountain pass that so effectively separated the coast from the Anatolian Highlands that, in times past, traversing it was p...

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Germany – the Netherlands – Great Britain – France – Italy – Portugal

Lahnstein and Lahneck Castle – A short overnight visit

Lahnstein and Lahneck Castle – A short overnight visit

07-12-2022 | Hits:8433

Appointments in Koblenz and near Frankfurt brought us to Lahnstein for the overn...

Bremen Flea Market - Browse for treasures and bargains

Bremen Flea Market - Browse for treasures and bargains

26-11-2016 | Hits:245240

Our motivation to the open air together with the interest in the visit of a flea...

Georg McGavin – former Oxford University entomologist

Oxford - George McGavin – former University entomologist

05-02-2024 | Hits:5750

Oxford - Today's entomological collection at the Natural History Museum at the U...

Bauhaus Museum – art, crafts and industry at start of the 1920s

Bauhaus Museum – art, crafts and industry at start of…

17-03-2022 | Hits:12183

Bauhaus Museum - A cloudy, rainy day had brought us back to Weimar in the past f...

Hiking, Cycling and Motorcycle Tours

Taurus hike and children's festival in Sarihacilar

04-11-2023

Taurus hike and children's festival in Sarihacilar

Once again, we were out with Ömer for our own physical exercise after a lo...

To the windmills of Zaanse Schans - by e-bike, of course

04-08-2023

To the windmills of Zaanse Schans - by e-bike, of course

Located in the Dutch municipality of Zaanstad, the Zaanse Schans is a small...

Cycling hike to Wiehe with a stopover at St. Ursula

08-05-2024

Cycling hike to Wiehe with a stopover at St. Ursula

Although we had only just roughly cleaned the e-bikes (the forest paths on ...

Albania - North Macedonia - Greece - Turkey - Cyprus

Illyria - in the empire of the Illyrians in the Balkans

Illyria - passing the empire of the Illyrians on the Balkans

28-03-2018 | Hits:14491

In some of our topics along the journeys along the Roman road system, the old, p...

Camping on Lake Ohrid near Struga – first steps

Camping on Lake Ohrid near Struga – first steps

08-11-2023 | Hits:5039

Family warmth and the first open conversations on the evening of our arrival had...

Heracleia Lyncestis - a day trip to Bitola

Heracleia Lyncestis - a day trip to Bitola

01-09-2016 | Hits:117285

Heracleia Lyncestis - We had to postpone the planned day trip from Ohrid to Bito...

Ascent to Petrela Castle - Coffee break in the castle´s garden

Ascent to Petrela - Coffee break in the castle´s garden

20-07-2024 | Hits:399556

After the really interesting cave exploration in a side valley next to the road ...

Camper-Route

Zampetas Camper Stop & Service Perea

13-08-2025

Station 12 - Zampetas Camper Stop & Service Station

Zampetas - Free parking is available for camper friends at us! We, Alexande...

Gythion Bay Camping in the Peloponnesus

08-01-2019

Station 17 - Gythion Bay Camping in the Peloponnesus

Forty thousand square meters full of orange, fig, mulberry, olive and nut t...

Poland – Czech Republic – Austria – Switzerland – Slovenia – Croatia – Hungary – Serbia

Narona - Roman colony and trading town on the Neretva

Narona - Roman colony and trading town on the Neretva

28-09-2015 | Hits:21296

Again and again you meet interesting people on the go, so there was now again an...

Mödling - on the edge of the Viennese basin with Robert

Mödling - on the edge of the Viennese basin with Robert

11-08-2017 | Hits:6457

Robert's name has long been a synonym for our readers, often we have reported on...

Another day trip to Imotski Dolines

Imotski - Another day trip to the Dolines

09-10-2015 | Hits:13188

Imotski - During our first stay to visit the two sinkholes in Imotzki we had not...

Aventicum - Amphitheatre and Roman Theatre awaiting us

Aventicum - Amphitheatre and Roman Theatre awaiting us

01-08-2019 | Hits:40574

At the time of the Roman Empire, Avenches, at the time called Aventicum, was the...

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