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Summer 2015 living and travelling Europe in a van – Part 1

October 14, 2015 by Mike 1 Comment

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Alright summer is definitely over now so I thought I’d do a roundup post of summer 2015 spent living in my van and travelling Europe – my second summer in the van. It’s quite long (over 50 photos) so I split it into in 2 parts. The second part is here

I was in Greece. It was getting warm so I started to go slowly north

I put together a photo gallery: Driving north through Greece

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I’d spent all of Spring writing the ebook. I promised myself a good summer

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I found some really nice places to camp

See post on Lefkada the island for vans

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And went to the best beach I have ever been to!

See post on Porto Katsiki

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I was on my own. With all this space

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The days were getting longer

See more photos on My bike ride on the sea

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I can shower outside now

See post on The DIY bottle shower

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I ran all the way to the top top of Vikos Gorge

See my post on Vikos Gorge

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And explored northern Greece

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Then my friend Matt from the UK came to see me

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We drove through Kosovo and were amazed at its beauty

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Oh and we met this guy who lives on the river bed

See post on Living on a DIY riverbed island

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But we carried on driving north into Montenegro

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The whole country is like this…

See post on A tour through Montenegro

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We tried to row across lake Skadar to Albania but instead we found this old prison

See post on The biggest lake in Balkans and trying to row to Albania

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We got to Croatia

See the Croatia photo gallery

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And fried eggs on a kayak

See post on The Kayak lunch

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The good wildcamping spots are harder to find here but they are worth it

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We found some nice hidden spots on the Croatian coast

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Matt went back to England after 3 weeks. I kept exploring Croatia

I went to Pag Island – see this post

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This was in Plitvika national park, Croatia

See my post on A tour of Plitvika national park – really nice place!

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But the festivals were calling. I started with Samsara festival in Hungary

See post: Photos from Samsara festival

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These are the summers I always dreamt about

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Meeting other travellers and van people

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And making new friends

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Time for another festival: Freqs of nature, Germany

See Freqs of nature festival in 15 photographs

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I finally got to go to the city I always wanted to go to: Berlin

See post: Welcome to Berlin – findings from my bike ride

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I set up camp with the other vans on a van street

See more of this street in this post: Meet the neighbours

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My friend Finn (from last summer) got a 24hr bus from England to meet me in Berlin. He brought new music!

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But we still try to make our own

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We went to Woodstock festival in Poland

See my 15 photos from Poland’s huge free festival

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And then to Czech Republic to find a party in some abandoned army base

See post here

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Continued in part 2 here

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  1. Micky Richards says

    May 15, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    Hey Mike

    Just wondering if there was a reason you avoided Albania back then?

    Cool Blog man!

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