Heading to the Lago Maggiore

Heading to the Lago Maggiore

It is Easter and time to start our trial road trip from Germany, to Locarno in Ticino, Switzerland, on the shores of beautiful Lago Maggiore for the Easter weekend. We had the idea of visiting Locarno after reading about the Maggia Valley and its amazing climbing...

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is here and Santa has been very good to us indeed. Stefan’s parents gave us a TomTom Go700 navigation system for Christmas. It rocks, we absolutely love it. For the past two year we have been enjoying a navigation system in our BMW 320d and have...
Heading to the Lago Maggiore

Adding to the Defender

Well, the first roadtrip is behind us and we have decided that there is a few more things the truck needs. So when Saturday morning came around Stefan and I headed up to Wiesbaden, as we had heard about an offroad outfitter specializing in Defenders up there. Getting...
Heading to the Lago Maggiore

Vosges Road Trip – Day 2

Home Sweet Home!!! After almost 1000km in two days we have finally returned home. The second day of this trip was almost more fun than the first and the sights and landscapes of this beautiful region just kept blowing us away. We started the morning with a huge...
Heading to the Lago Maggiore

The first real road trip – Vosges

Today we launched on our first real road trip with the new defender. It was fantastic. Stefan and I left our home this morning with our friend Jenny. We headed to the french boarder and with some confusion in Sarbrücken finally found the direction we needed....