November 25, 2025

High Atlas and Marrakesh 🇲🇦 - Back into Traffic

We leave the wild country south of the Atlas, stand at the pass in cold wind for the first time in days - and in Marrakesh get moved on by the police almost the moment we have parked…

Hairpins in the High Atlas Climbing over the High Atlas

November 23, 2025

Erg Chegaga 🇲🇦 - Get Stuck, Get Out, Carry On

At the famous dunes of Erg Chegaga we get ourselves stuck on purpose in order to learn recovery. After that comes the last training point - and finally a mud-brick town you may recognise from a few films…

The dunes of Erg Chegaga

November 20, 2025

Zagora and the Crater 🇲🇦 - Briefly Back to Civilisation

We set off to refill our water and within a few kilometres find ourselves doing a spontaneous repair in the middle of nowhere. After that it is up over the crater rim and down inside - and in the evening everyone pushes their tables together…

Inside the crater Over the crater rim and down inside

November 17, 2025

Morocco 🇲🇦 - Sand, Training and the Milky Way

We calmly practise what we had already learned involuntarily, wake up among dunes looking at a mountain shaped like a tajine - and at night I finally get the Milky Way onto a photo the way it actually looks…

Dunes in the Moroccan desert The day of sand

November 13, 2025

Morocco 🇲🇦 - Flat Tyres, Bazaars and Off the Road

We turn onto the first track and pick up a flat within metres, stock up at the bazaar in Erfoud because after that there is nothing for days - and practise driving to within five centimetres…

Out on the track From here on it is tracks only

November 10, 2025

Tabernas and Almería 🇪🇸 - Last Day in Europe

We hike through canyons where half of film history was shot, meet eight more trucks in the port of Almería - and the next morning we stand on Moroccan soil for the first time…

The Tabernas desert

November 6, 2025

Andalusia 🇪🇸 - Olives, Caminito del Rey and a New Compressor

We drive for hours through the largest olive monoculture in the world, haul Mammothon up a climb of more than 20 percent, hike the Caminito del Rey - and end up staying at MAN considerably longer than planned…

Olive groves Olives as far as you can see

October 28, 2025

Monastery de la Murta 🇪🇸 - Right at the End of the Valley

We want a bit more solitude again, so we drive up a valley that gets narrower with every kilometre. At the end Mammothon stands almost alone - and Saskia’s circular route turns out to be considerably more sporting than expected…

At the end of the valley you can only continue on foot

October 25, 2025

Spain 🇪🇸 - from the Truck Wash into the Semi-Desert

Mammothon gets a shower first, then we drive straight through a storm into the Monegros - and discover, on opening the roof hatch, that the wind up there has been busy…

Monegros semi-desert The semi-desert of the Monegros

October 18, 2025

Across Southern France 🇫🇷 - from Brenne to Carcassonne

We swap the bustle of Paris for a great deal of quiet, get warned by a local about a “narrow” road, relocate our pitch by WhatsApp, cross the highest bridge in Europe - and end up in a town we previously only knew as a board game…

Lou on the plateau Lou inspects the plateau above Millau

October 5, 2025

Paris 🇫🇷 - the City of Love

We take our time, eat surprisingly well along the way, then park 17 tonnes on an island in the middle of Paris, walk all the classics - and in between I take the Eurostar to Amsterdam for work…

Lou in front of the Eiffel Tower Lou has seen the Eiffel Tower and is moderately impressed

September 28, 2025

Allgäu 🇩🇪 - Family, Parachutes and the First Frost

We arrive in the Allgäu with plenty of extra kilometres on the clock, watch our daughter jump out of a plane, build a bigger home for a snake, finally meet friends of over 15 years in person - and then one morning everything is white…

Parachute jump Our daughter is somewhere up there

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