October 24, 2026

Peloponnese 🇬🇷 - Cats and the Corinth Canal

After a few nights of solitude in the mountains, it’s back to civilisation: a few more hairpin bends, a village with streets a little too narrow, then wide roads all the way to Corinth. We park in an olive grove with very pushy neighbours and take a boat through the Corinth Canal…

The boat sails between high rock walls through the Corinth Canal By boat through the canal

October 19, 2026

Peloponnese 🇬🇷 - Olympia, Kyllini and Wild Horses

Ancient Olympia is for humans only, so we take turns going in. Then it’s through the mountains to a plateau and on along a washed-out track around Kyllini, past snow and a cave. And then comes the spot where Sven… but see for yourself.

Wild horses on a meadow in the mountains Our neighbours on the mountain

October 15, 2026

Peloponnese 🇬🇷 - Voidokilia and a Day Full of Cleaning Rags

From the southernmost point we slowly head north again: we park right by the sea, Saskia climbs up to Navarino Castle and hikes to the Ox Belly Bay, and in the evening we share a beach with unusual neighbours. Then come two nights on a campsite, a deep clean for the Mammothon and a visit from very curious cats…

The bay of Voidokilia with lagoon and sandy beach from above The bay of Voidokilia from above

October 12, 2026

Peloponnese 🇬🇷 - Messene and the Towers of Vatheia

Two days, two special places: we spend the night all alone next to the ancient city wall of Messene and spend Saturday among theatre, stadium and colonnades. Then it’s along narrow roads to the “middle finger” of the Peloponnese and Vatheia, where tourists photograph not just the village but the Mammothon too…

The tower village of Vatheia on a hill above the landscape Vatheia with its tower houses

October 9, 2026

Elia Beach 🇬🇷 - Office by the Sea and a Broken Alternator

On the drive from the ferry the belt starts making odd noises, and the diagnosis is not what we hoped for: the bracket of the second alternator has broken. While the spare parts travel from Germany, we move our office to Elia Beach, first convince a snake that a tyre tread is no good hiding place, and have a breakfast van dropping by every morning…

A thin snake winds across a gravel path A snake we have to talk out of staying before departure

October 3, 2026

Kefalonia 🇬🇷 - Cave, Odysseus and Sea Turtles

Holiday! Our daughter has arrived and we explore Kefalonia: a cave with sunbeams, a boat trip, a birthday wish that takes us to the Palace of Odysseus on Ithaca, turtles and a mountain that we hike down first and then back up, just to be safe. To finish, there is a ferry on which we cannot even get a place…

A sea turtle swims at the surface among seagrass A turtle near Argostoli

September 25, 2026

Greece 🇬🇷 - Ferry, Salt Pans and Kefalonia

Goodbye Italy, hello Greece: We drive Mammothon onto a floating multi-storey car park, meet its previous owners there, arrive in the middle of the night and find a pitch where we are practically parked in the sea. Add the first proper Greek meal, an imposing bridge, another ferry and a holiday house with several floors that we first have to get used to…

Lou lying on the ferry deck next to two other dogs Lou makes friends with two fellow dogs on the ferry

September 16, 2026

Italy 🇮🇹 - Tuscany, Ostia Antica and the White City

Three weeks of Italy in one go: a week in Tuscany on a vineyard with a very narrow gate, a visit to the ruins of Ostia Antica with Lou in a backpack while Sven pops over to sample Irish weather, and a drive across the country to Apulia. There an olive farm, a flight to Zurich and a town we had not even put on the list are waiting, and it still knocks us off our feet…

Lou sitting on the steps of a whitewashed alley in Ostuni Lou finds Ostuni quite acceptable too

August 30, 2026

Allgäu, Grünten and Bologna 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇮🇹 - the second half begins

Two weeks in the Allgäu, an odometer that cracks 100,000 kilometres, and a mountain that this time greets us not with ice and snow but with almost too much sun. Then we get our home back from the Dachstein, and the second half of the season starts towards Bologna, where a lizard and some rather bad roads await us in the Apennines…

Lou standing on a mossy tree trunk in the forest Lou has the overview

August 15, 2026

Ore Mountains, Bayreuth and Mering 🇩🇪 - crooked, full and home

A pitch in the Ore Mountains so crooked that even Mammothon gets vertigo, an evening in Franconia with very tasty food and a night in which our stomachs beg to differ. At the weekend we head to our old home, where Lou meets her sister…

Lou and her sister sitting next to each other on the grass Two sisters, one reunion

August 6, 2026

Poland 🇵🇱 and Saxon Switzerland 🇩🇪 - storks and rocks

Through the Suwałki Gap we head into Poland, where the storks in Masuria are firmly part of the inventory. A few hundred kilometres later we are back in Germany, between rocks and ladders - and Sven works with the most beautiful office view of the trip, but sadly no time to enjoy it…

View over rocks and forests of Saxon Switzerland to the horizon View from Saxon Switzerland

August 2, 2026

Lithuania 🇱🇹 - Hill of Crosses and water skiing

Hardly have we left Riga behind when the next country is on the programme. First one of the most surreal places of the trip, then into nature and finally to a pitch where the television is a window - and the stars are water skiing…

Lou standing on a path between thousands of crosses on the Hill of Crosses Lou among a few more crosses

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