Football fever

Today the World Cup started here in Germany and of course there are a lot of people here which are all worked up about…including most of the people working in my husband’s office. They’re almost like children on Christmas morning, completely excited...

Summer is here …. and we’re heading out!

We saw a dramatic improvement in weather over the last 24 hours here in Germany. Thank God! And it’s only going to get better over the weekend. For us and doggo, as we are prone to call our little Newfie girl,that means taking the opportunity to get away for the...

The tent is here!

The tent finally got here today! Unfortunately it will still be raining until the weekend, so we won’t be able to test the tent until then, at the earliest. We are very eager to see just how big the tent is and if it really only takes 10 minutes to set it up....

But how will it all fit?

So now that we have a third body in the car with us – Ayla, who will be almost fully grown by the time we leave – it was time to start thinking about what we would bring on our trip and how it will all fit in and on the Defender. While we have no doubt the...

“Mission” Update – Pimp my Defender

In terms of the car most things we wanted to accomplish are complete. The roof rack and snorkel where already attached when we picked the truck up and we have added a safety features such as the undercarriage protection and then bumperettes ourselves. Meanwhile we...
Two wonderful days of climbing

Two wonderful days of climbing

<We spent the last two days discovering two of the climbing areas close to Locarno. Yesterday we headed out to Ponte Brolla, about 6km away from our apartment. Our Tom Tom had a little trouble finding the area so we spent the better part of an hour driving through...