Overland Reunion 2015 – Meeting up with other Overlanders in the Twente woods …

All Overlanders know the situation: you are excited to go on your next overland trip to Whateverstan and so many people do not understand why you like this very basic way of traveling to places wild and remote instead of doing an “all inclusive trip” to a fashionable place everybody else just rhapsodizes on! … […]

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Coffee or Tea?

Many people need a cup of good coffee for a good start into the day. In our case, we definitely need tea. Strong and sweet Assam tea! Typical and traditional “Ostfriesentee” (East-Frisian Tea)! Every morning! Boiling water in the camp early in the morning sometimes can be a really annoying task, especially when you’ve got […]

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On the road to Africa in 80 days – an update!

There are only 80 days to go until we leave, so it’s time for an update here …  3-wheel-nomads in Bielefeld (Anouk wanted to stay with her greatgrandma) Guidebooks, travel reports and maps – Thank You, Reise Know-How!   Sóley simply loves elephants – so far it’s only made of stone!  We intensified our contact with […]

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4-wheel-nomads’ Logo

   cloth acrobatics It is sometime in the late summer of 2014: we need a logo for our blog, for our Facebook site and for the Land Rover, of course. So I go to my colleague Edgar’s Sunday arts club with the objective to create such a logo with the help of a real expert. Juliane […]

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When the journey visits you at home!

  Within not even six weeks after our travel to Ethiopia, we are visited by Samuel from Adigrat. We got to know Samuel in Adigrat, more or less just because he invited us for lunch at his home. Samuel and his wife Genet were extremely hospitable and we were integrated by them in no time at […]

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Change Stays – Planning all over again!

Everybody knows this situation: you have been planning something for a long time and you are really looking forward to fulfill that plan … and then, bang!, something happens and you can start all over again! This exactly is the situation we are in at the moment: the Ebola virus outbreak in parts of Western […]

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4-wheel-nomads Home Again

Résumé Four days ago, we have come home again. Now, it’s time for a résumé on the trip to Eastern Europe. As we have stated before, the reputation of the Eastern European countries is far worse than what we experienced as reality. Actually, we found that in most countries visited, the people were more friendly […]

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Intro

Dreams! It all began somewhere in Australia’s Western Desert: … the campfire casting shadows across the bush and zillions of stars above us (most surely with the help of a good bottle of Australian redwine) sparked the dream to start travelling in our own 4-wheel and for a longer period. Surviving a nearly fatal accident […]

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New Bits ‘n’ Pieces

In this post, we are simply presenting some updating bits and pieces to you … (so, no photos, I’m afraid!) Of course, as in not more than ten days, we will be in Ethiopia, we are getting very excited about that. The flights to Addis Abeba and then to Mekele are booked and so are the transfers […]

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