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Driving a van through the mountains of Greece – avoiding tolls

November 19, 2014 12 Comments

Greece has tolls roads. They’re expensive. I wont go on about it. But to get from Thessaloniki (North of Greece) to Athens would cost over

November 15, 2014 62 Comments

Lonely planet’s definition of travelling on a ‘shoestring’ is at least 50Euro a day – I’ve got the book. That is a lot of money!

November 5, 2014 3 Comments

The things on my ‘things to fix’ list range from ‘sew up my jeans’ to ‘fix black smoke from engine’. Here’s the engine one… The van

November 5, 2014 11 Comments

The wild-campers know what I’m talking about… The hidden roads, where you have to zoom right into the map (0.2m scale) for them to be visible.

October 30, 2014 3 Comments

I’ve spent the past week or so travelling down the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria. No one is here. It’s great… I’ve free

October 30, 2014 7 Comments

I didn’t really plan this. I didn’t know I’d be in Eastern Europe at this time of the year. I didn’t even know if I’d

October 19, 2014 10 Comments

I don’t really enjoy the tourist stuff. I’d rather see what is down that little alley, check out that abandoned hospital or maybe climb through

October 9, 2014 2 Comments

There are about 5000 brown bears living in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. After seeing a bear cross the road the other night during a

October 7, 2014 No Comments

It’s getting cold. Here’s some food for Autumn…