Close to the Russia border, you can find a wildlife photographers’ paradise, the Wild Brown Bear lodge. You prefer spending nights out in the forest, sitting in a hide in the freezing cold? Sounds tempting to you? Well, peeing into a bucket is also not too much of an issue […]
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Even though the start of this trip has been not ideal, we still had some wonderful days in the South of Finland, hiking in a fantastic landscape in some of the national parks. But now it is time to head East, so visiting the South-East of Finland with places like […]
Finland, a long way to the North from Munich, first 850 kilometres from Munich to Travemünde and than a 29 hour ferry ride to Helsinki, so not just around the corner. Having said that, we must admit that the ferry cruise was not as bad as expected, rather comfortable with […]
Having a weekend to spare in Munich during the winter times is always nice, but what if you want to get out of the city and see a bit of nature? Going skiing is one option, but a lot of people do that, so you will queue on the highways […]
Being in Australia just for a couple of days, how about going for a dive on a Saturday? Therefore heading for Nelson Bay from Sydney on a Friday afternoon, hoping to finally get a chance to dive with Nurse Sharks, something that never did work out for me before. And […]
Thinking about which roads to take with a 4×4, sooner or later you come across some reports on old World War I military roads in Northern Italy, so we decided that this has to be a great opportunity, using our car for what it has been made for. Starting from […]
Just 3,5 hours from Munich away, we have never been there before. Bit wondering why, but when you see the parking capacities at the end of the road to the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, you don’t want to go there during the season. It is a fantastic landscape, but if […]
Arriving at our campsite in Skradin, we got a warm welcome by a nicely positioned cat in the evening light. The next morning, another one, of the rare sunny days this September, we visited the Krka NP in Southern Croatia. Starting from Skradin by boat in the morning, it took […]
Plitvice Lakes NP has been on the bucket list for a while, but somehow we never managed to get even close to the national park on earlier trips to Croatia. Unfortunately the weather was not offering the best photo lights and even though it is end of the tourist season, […]