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Off to the South 2021/22

December 2021 - February 2022
A 52-day adventure by Gina Read more

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    Reinbek, Germany

    December 7, 2021 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C

    yesterday we decided on the destination of our next trip - i need to see some sun ☀️. our first idea was the canary island but due to the recent rise in incidence rates we do not want to go by ferry or fly. so we will go by car 🚌 and stay on the european mainland. we will not take the big red „don’t panic“ fire truck but the ordinary vw bus. first we will go to my hometown in black forest, then to france and then direction costa del sol in spain.
    we will leave right before x-mas and do not know when we will return - maybe end of january, maybe end of febuary - we will see…
    so: same procedure as every trip, it starts with drawing the postcard 🤪 - i think it turned out pretty well…    Read more

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    Reinbek, Germany

    December 23, 2021 in Germany ⋅ ❄️ 0 °C

    actually we planned to leave today but since it is such a nice snowy ❄️ day today and i had my booster shot 💉yesterday, and my brother needs another day for his mother-in-law, we decided to slow down, pack our stuff veeeeeeery slowly, watch the snow falling on the trees 🌲, drink some tee 🫖 and sit by the fire 🔥. so we will enjoy a last day of snow today, before we leave for the south tomorrow morning.
    i‘m glad that we decided to avoid anything with humans 🤪, so our own bus 🚌 and our own apartment 🏠 at the sea it is…. fortunately it is veeeeeery well equipped, so we can bring our grain and bake our fresh full grain sourdough bread as usually - well and deploy my hammock for sure 🙃.    Read more

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    River Elbe, Hamburg, Germany

    December 24, 2021 in Germany ⋅ ❄️ 1 °C

    *this* is the right weather for leaving! 🤪

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    Markgräflerland, Germany

    December 25, 2021 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 8 °C

    first stop „markgräflerland“ - my home area… it’s a region in the southwest of germany, in the south of baden-württemberg, located between the breisgau in the north and the black forest in the east; adjacent to west with france and in the south with switzerland.
    we stay at my brothers place and today is about chilling, chatting, making music, cooking wild bore and enjoying time with my wonderful brother and sister in law. i love them very much and we are best friends. in fact my sister in law and i used to be best friend since and when we where young - until she met me brother at least 🤪. i’m so grateful that i have this easy going family situation… another thing which i love when i’m here is, that i can speak my native language. if you’re interested in more information about the markgräflerland have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markgräflerland    Read more

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    Kreuzeiche, Ottwangen, Germany

    December 29, 2021 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

    the last 5 days where quite an odyssey ⛵️🗺… we went back to hamburg because my brother tested positive on covid and we put ourselves in quarantine for 5 days. since we’re still negative we’re now on the road again - ❤️ thanx to our booster 💉! (thanx to my family doctor, who managed to get a lot of vaccines organized before x-mas and thanx to lauterbach, who orders vaccines like a maniac…)
    so tonight was our last night in germany and we picked a place i know since i was a child 👧 . it’s named after a very old oak 🪵 - now dead, only the stump is left. it’s a great place to start hikes and if you are around and need a place to stay over night with your caravan 🚌 (and maybe want to enjoy hiking in the very south of black forest 🌲) - i definitely recommend this place! but we only enjoyed the calm forest over night and our daily tea 🍵 routine in the morning before we left direction france. but for sure we passed by my favorite italian store for some arancini, cannoli, cartocci and a good coffee ☕️❤️. so now we’re already in france and soon i will start to look for croissants 🥐 🤪.    Read more

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    Lavaur, France

    December 30, 2021 in France ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    first information first… my appetite for croissant is satisfied for the time being 🤪 - and since we drive along country roads, we can easily stop for coffee ☕️ , croissants 🥐 and all the other wonderful french stuff ❤️ (what we did of course). it’s quite a while ago i drove along rhone valley ⛰ and once again i thought: what a wonderful world, which i immediately discarded as we passed through clermont-ferrand during rush hour. what a disaster… usually the french really know how to build roundabouts but i guess in clermont-ferrand they gave the job of road planning obviously to a surrealist. i went down on my knees and thanked the spaghetti 🍝 monster when we finally managed to get through and found a nice place at a lake to stay over night.
    the next morning i was really looking forward to the next section of the route, because i know this area pretty well from cave diving, wonderful hills, valleys and clouds - but have a look yourself.    Read more

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    Reus, Spain

    December 31, 2021 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    yesterday we passed through some awesome landscapes and around montpellier we hit „summer“ ☀️, so i threw away my shoes and pulled out my flip flops and my dress 👗 - shortly after that we reached the mediterranean sea. it was a great feeling driving barefoot overlooking the snow-capped peaks of the pyrenees, not to mention to pass through them near the coast - did i already tell you, that i love driving country roads - ❤️ serpentines ❤️❤️❤️.
    the funny thing was, that right after we passed the spanish border, it started to stink - smoke all over. i have to research this, but it looks like everybody is burning 🔥 their garden waist between xmas and new year - literally *everybody* and the valleys were filled with smoke. i did not mind the wonderful clouds filling the valleys (luckily i didn't have to go to), not to mention the wonderful orange sunset 🌅, painting a beautiful silhouette on the dark orange sky for over an hour… BUT for over 3 hours spain stank… 🤮.

    in the evening we found a very calm place to stay over night. on the way there the cooler water started to boil and we recognized that both 50 amp fuses of the radiator fan broke down. the ones in the engine compartment… i did not even know that there are 50 amp fuses there… and they look very archaic.
    we bridged them with wire, checked the engine and after that…
    …grilled our merguez and enjoyed some red wine and gin tonic. aaaaaand this morning the sun ☀️ woke us up ❤️❤️❤️.

    so now we‘re driving next to orange 🍊 plantations and we already have 3 kilos in our trunk - i’m happy that we bought a juicer 🧃on the way. before sunset 🌅 we will arrive at our apartment and we also have some shrimps 🦐 in the trunk - ready for our new years eve dinner…    Read more

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    La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain

    December 31, 2021 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    🌞🚐 arrived! ❤️🌅

  • TravelerOff to the South 2021/22

    So this is 2022, Spain

    January 1, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    so this is how the new year feels like... scampi-mania 🦐 , yoga 🧘, walking along the beach ⛱️, sitting in the sun 🌞 and listening to the birds 🐦. hmmmm... i think this sounds kind of ok-ish... 😜 for the next 2 days. after that i think i'm going to keep at least the yoga and the sun 😁.Read more

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