Category: Stories
Tales of the Road – Leaving Hokkaido
Wow, finally a “Tales of the Road” again. We left you in Hokkaido, many things have happened in the meantime, let’s try to catch up. End of March we left the most northern island of Japan. But not before…
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Tales of the Road – Fire & Ice
We just finished the snowshoe hike on the Shiretoko peninsula and are now slowly making our way west. The wild Hokkaido kept amazing us with its abundance of wildlife, icy landscapes and fire coming up from underneath.
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Marleen and Roderick’s Odyssey
Proud to announce that we were featured in the Mercedes-Benz MYVAN: an online platform for van enthusiasts. They covered our story in two articles. Read them both!
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Three years living as Nomads
How do we summarize more than 1,100 days of living on the road, meeting people, working on new projects, … or should I just say: LIVING? Not an easy job! The way we tried to write this post illustrates our current state of mind quite well… so here goes.. VERSION 5! (really, not joking…)
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Creating a paradise in Portugal – 4 insights
Creating a paradise in Portugal – 4 insights On this journey we take the roads less...
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Winter Wonderland of Shiretoko National Park
We headed into one of the wildest areas of Japans Northern Island, Shiretoko. This “end of the world” peninsula is covered by a blanket of snow, surrounded by Siberian drift ice and is among the highest bear density places in the world.
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Tales of the road – Arrival to Hokkaido
Hokkaido, the most Northern island of the Japanese archipelago, sounded like adventure and real winter to us. From some parts of Hokkaido you are almost able to touch Russia and the nature and wildlife here is much more connected to Siberia. The ice cold wind brings a lot of snow for almost 6 months in the year.
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The Snow Festivals of Japan
The winters in the north of Japan are long and full of snow. How are people coping with the long and harsh winters? Half way in the season traditional snow festivals pop up all around the north of Japan. And we were lucky enough to encounter a few of them!
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A monthly postcard from us?
After the great success of last trip, we are excited to introduce our POSTCARD subscription again! Every month we will send you a personal card with a photo by Roderick and a story by Marleen, stamped and sent from a post office around the world. Every month from another location!
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A walk through Nozawa Onsen
We fell in love with Nozawa Onsen. Besides snowboarding this ancient but alive hot spring town gave us a peak into authentic Japan.
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Back on the road!
It hasn’t been an easy decision: but – after a lot of thinking – it was the feeling of curiosity to see more of this beautiful world that triggered us to make the decision: let’s ship our Abi to Japan and start exploring Asia from the east!
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Freedom and the other side of the coin
One of the main reasons why we love our #vanlife is the freedom we have and the incredible diversity it brings to our lives. But on the other hand – and this might sound stupid – this total freedom is also our biggest challenge. Why?
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