Canmore, Alberta and the Nine Minute Moto Film Festival

Highway 93 has led us to the Trans Canada Highway again, somewhere between Lake Louise and Banff, surely one of the most beautiful places in the Rocky Mountains. Brian and I are excited to see our friend, Nevil, and to… Read More ›

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Ready for Takeoff, Forest Fires … and other Stories

 Anouk hates goodbyes!  During the last few days and weeks at home on the island of Spiekeroog, many people around us kept asking us whether we were becoming more and more excited. We were not, actually! Instead – in addition to our very engaging jobs – we were in absolute and continuous “packing-mania” and had to empty […]

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Salento and the Valle de Cocora

We decide to head west from Bogota to the Zona Cafetera (Coffee Zone) also known as the eje cafetero  (coffee axis) which is a 283km drive away.  Although it is a relatively short distance, it takes 7 and…

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Bogota, Colombia

The Colombian capital of Bogota is such a polar opposite to Villa de Leyva from where we had just come from that it is honestly a bit of a shock to the system!  The sheer amount of…

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Why does it happen to me?? (this is not a film)

A bit of an update. Why does it happen to me…Remember the phone call for 8 hours the last time. Well this time the Insurance company sold me some insurance, yesterday. I called again this morning, like I do, to really check that what they told me was true, it wasn’t! So I cancelled it after less than 24 hours. For the privilege of this they charged me £46.60 to which in said no way! So threatening an official complaint I told them they had miss-sold me the insurance. An illeg […]

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Icelands South Shore Part 1

We had already heard from other riders that all the central roads on the island were still closed due to snow and lack of melting after a very cold spring. It looks like the dream to ride the “central cross … Continue reading →

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Pelo menos temos uma casa…

Ainda bem que nossa casa sobre rodas Victória Motorhomes não nos abandona. Durante esses quase 10 dias que estamos estacionados na mecânica GBR Utah ela nos dá abrigo, proteção, privacidade, conforto, espaço e tranquilidade. Nossa casa sobre rodas definitivamente não nos deixa na mão. Já o carro em que ela se situa, sem desmerecer, vez ou outra nos dá algumas …

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