On the way between Chefchaouen and Meknes we stopped at Volubilis for a couple of hours to see ancient Roman ruins that were there. We paid a guide from the “kitty” to show us around and tell us stories of how the Romans were making wine and olive oil, using solariums and vomitariums (the place...Read More
Fez is the oldest city in Morocco and the fourth largest. Our plan was to camp there for three nights so that the truck could be serviced while we explored the city and got practical stuff like laundry done. The old city of Fez was huge and very chaotic so our tour leader had arranged...Read More
From Tarifa it was just a 35 minute ferry ride and about a three hour drive to get to Chefchaouen. Even through Spain and Morocco are just 14 kilometers apart it was culturally a totally different World. The truck speed was on average under 50km/h and we got to know each other well by sitting...Read More
Staying more than a week in Malaga was too much and we desperately needed to find something to do in order not to get crazy, so we rented a car and drove to Gibraltar which was just a couple of hours away. Crossing into the British territory of Gibraltar was quite interesting as the border...Read More
After a week of waiting in Malaga our truck finally arrived with out tents meaning that we could move into the campsites. Seeing the truck for the first time I was surprised of how big it was and how easily it fit all sixteen of us: Jonatan– A 26 year old IT engineer from Uppsala,...Read More
So, now I’ve been on the road for nearly half a year and it is time to open a new travel chapter. The next six months I will be traveling with a group of sixteen people all the way through Africa. The plan was originally to travel from 66 degrees north in Iceland to 33...Read More
The only story I had heard about Warsaw before I went there was the story of the movie “the Pianist” from 2002. The movie told the story of a Polish Jewish musician who was struggling to survive life in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII. This was also the story of nearly half a million Jews...Read More
Vienna is a city I have visited numerous times while living in Austria, but every time it was to visit friends and family or to go to operas, concerts, shows and theaters. This time I wanted to be a tourist to try to see the city with different eyes. It was first now that I...Read More
I got up super early in Vienna, planning to have as much time as possible on a day trip to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. When I got there and walked around for a couple of hours, I felt like I had seen it all, as there was not really much to see. When driving...Read More
Graz is the second biggest city in Austria and one definitely worth visiting if traveling through central Europe. It is known for being the cultural and student capital, and has a lot of history to it dating back to the 15to 18th hundred, while Styria was the Austrian front against the Turkish Ottomans. From that...Read More
Traveling from Ukraine, I had a nights stop in Hungrary where I met an old university student colleague of mine who lived in the capital. It had snowed the whole evening, so after a few drinks we decided to head to the top of the hill and slide down on bob sleighs. The view from...Read More
At first I had only planned on visiting Kiev in Ukraine, but once there everyone told me that I could not leave the country without visiting Odessa and Lviv. Odessa is the fourth biggest city, located far east near the Russian occupied peninsula of Crimea and known for its opera house and art nouveau architechtural...Read More
Early yesterday morning I jumped on a Mashrutka minibus going from the Moldovan capital to Tiraspol, the capital of the internationally unrecognised country of Transnistria. Driving through the border, which is manned by Moldovian, Russian and Transnistrian army guards I had to complete all the formalities of a border crossing. Because Transnistria, although being a...Read More
The entrance to Under the Golden Rose For those of you who are planning on visiting Lviv you cannot leave there without having visited some of the themed bars and restaurants that the city is so famous for. I started my evening out with a visit to the Jewish restaurant “Under the Golden Rose”, right...Read More
Kiev is a place that can easily give you a wow factor when you arrive. Coming from Belarus and the Baltics I thought the cities had a lot of huge churches, but Kiev easily beat them all. All over the city there are huge ones with golden onion like tops, usually lit up in the...Read More
Out of all countries in Europe, Belarus might be the one standing the most out. It is the only European country that Norwegians require a visa to visit making it probably the most closed of all the countries in Europe. With that also comes less tourists and less impact on the country from the outside,...Read More
With Vilnius having little to offer me after a couple of days of exploring, I was looking into going somewhere for a day trip. The country is not very big and public transport is extremely cheap, so if I started early anywhere in the country would be within reach. Most cities would probably just have...Read More
On April Fools Day in 1997 something interesting happened in Vilnius where a group of people living in the artistic neighborhood of Uzupis decided that they would announce that they wanted to declare their neighborhood as its own Republic. The Republic of Uzupis. Walking around in Vilnius you might even walk through it, without noticing...Read More
