Home port

Do you know this: You follow a travel blog, and slowly it gets quieter, the posts rarer, and at some point there seems to be no more current posts. So it is not only on this, our blog, but on many that we have followed in the meantime....

The last four weeks were characterized by preparations and even more preparations. The car was tinkered with and screwed together. BUTCH was foiled, rear racks and water tanks were built and mounted. It felt like the car was in the workshop more than any other...

...Uncertain is all return - The future lies in darkness - And makes our hearts heavy... "Bullshit! - This may be the first line of the German translation of the old Scottish folk orphan. And yes, saying goodbye is not always easy. And yet...

In the living room of our Cologne apartment hung two pictures with the likeness of Steve McQueen. Why Steve McQueen? To call him a role model would be a bit exaggerated. From my point of view, the guy was just pretty cool. - When is a man a man? - This...

Looking back one year, Torgit and I were almost at the same stage as today. - We packed our van and prepared for our first big trip. - It was going to Croatia. When I look back next Saturday, one year began our...

Now it's official. Torgit and I are homeless. - Thank God we are not homeless. My brother Dirk has offered us asylum for a few days. BUTCH, which we picked up at SpaceCamper on Thursday, is already back at the foiler. - After that it is...

A few additions on the subject of courage: In recent months, Torgit and I have often been told that it is incredibly courageous to throw our lives overboard and simply drive away. This statement was often paired with...

A lot has happened in the last few days. - Everything has come to a head a little. - Today we finally come to rest a little. So I also find the time to write these lines. With a view to the Baltic Sea. But first one after the other. Not only because of...

When the Germans' favorite chocolate bar was simply renamed in 1991, it caused quite a stir. We Germans were so easily robbed and plundered by a looter and robber. - Young as we were, we no longer understood the world. And yet...

Like most boys, I had my comic book heroes as a child. But they weren't called Superman, Batman, Robin, Spiderman, Silver Surfer or even Captain America. - Instead, I read Asterix. - I thought the traveling Bretons were cool. - But before...

When I wake up this morning something is different, something is missing. - Yesterday was the day, yesterday we parted from Hector. Or has Hector parted from us? - Actually everything is fine, Hector has found his new home in Duisburg. He now calls a...

"...And the rest of your life is ahead of you Maybe it would be smart to look around one last time You don't know exactly why But somehow curiosity grabs you The sky is blue And the rest of your life will be beautiful... "The end of a long journey that...

We have already talked about the fact that our apartment no longer makes us happy. In this context, have I ever shown you our refrigerator? It makes me happy. On the one hand, because it is nice and big and always well filled with delicious...

Let the games, er household liquidation, begin. Selling our belongings is proving to be more time consuming than I thought. I started with the garden equipment, which is stored in the basement. Carrying everything up to the garden, cleaning, taking photos (of 'crap the...

When I wake up this morning and open my eyes, the first thing I see is a wall. Although a very beautiful wall, but that does not change the fact that it is a wall. One or the other asks himself now, what is abnormal about it. For me: EVERYTHING. In the van...

Also this night we have slept badly. I am looking forward to the 1st coffee again from the Rocket coffee maker and from a porcelain cup. After 7 months I don't have a routine anymore and I really have to think about how it works for a minute. Tastes funny. We...

Torgit: This morning we wake up very early, at 5:30. The night was stupid, we both slept badly, woke up very often. Marc snores again. Like in the good old days. I find that frightening. I am restless, just can't find peace....

On the way to Cologne, our, my feelings were mixed. Today, on the day of our return flight to Faro, they are crystal clear. I am happy to come home. Hector has become our home. I would have thought that to say goodbye I would have to go through...

"The true art of living is to see the miraculous in the mundane." - Pearl S. Buck Facebook once again reminds me of what I was up to a year earlier. - Meanwhile, I love this reminder feature. Looking at the before - after pictures....

I had already written that I come home with mixed feelings. Cologne, the Südstadt and especially our apartment have been my home port, my home, since 2006. There's a lot of feeling in that. For me, home has always been safety, security,...

There are days that begin with tragedy. - Today we were out of gas, so our morning coffee was in danger. Because the bus was parked against a wall in such a way that changing the gas bottle would not have been possible, at least today. But campers help campers....

"Mer losse d'r Dom en Kölle, denn do jehööt hä hin. What do you want to do somewhere else, that wouldn't have any meaning" - Nevertheless, it is hard for us to leave our beloved cathedral behind. That's why we decide to have a last coffee on the Rhine as a farewell. Before it...