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25.06.23 – The Last Night Together

Today we drove towards the german border again and looked for our last spot to sleep that night. We found a parking lot 30 mintues from Arnhem sourrounded by fields and water. We set up the chairs and table and sat around in the grass for a while and listened to Walter Moers „Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher“ again. But this time as an audiobook. We just hung around enjoying the nature and that we had nothing planned.After a while we cooked ourselves some dinner, good old pasta with ratatouille sauce. Apart from some cars coming and going and some bikes driving at the nearby street, a really calm place. After finishing dinner we used the golden hour to take some photos of us with our new clothes and I flew around with the drone a bit to get some aerial shots of the surroundings. After the sun set, we packed our stuff together and moved into the camper as mosquitos and other blood drinkers came out of their holes. Unfortunately it were a good 30 degrees outside which made sitting in the van very unconfortable so we McGyver’d us a mosquito shield in front of the camper door so at least some fresh air could get in. We listened to more of the audiobook and slowly fell asleep, accompanied by the pretty loud ribbiting of the frogs at the nearby pond. It was kind of annoying and beautiful at the same time. But after a while you just fall asleep, so all good. Eventhoug waking up a few times, I at least, feel relatively refreshed now. Today is the day where we will drive to Hannover where Lukas will hop on an ICE to Hamburg and Lazaro and I will drive to Hümme to sleep one night at Marius‘ place (like on the last roadtrip). Mainly because driving 8 hours home on one day is too much.

This was our second roadtrip through France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was a cool adventure again and the next one will come :).

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21.06.23 – Discovering Fort-Mahon-Plage

After getting up and eating some breakfast we packed our stuff to go to the beach. After a 10 minute walk we found a nice spot and after a bit of laying around we went for a little swim. The water was very refreshing, relatively cold but not too cold. Very nice to go swimming in the ocean again. After more laying around and almost falling asleep in the sand we decided to walk back to the camper again to leave our stuff there and walk back to the main road. We walked up the road, away from the beach, and towards a small bakery where we got some delicious pastries and bread. The baguette actually was so delicious that only one half of it survived the way back to the camperAfter our little snack we hung around in the shadow of the car to hide from the heat a bit and then started looking for a place to eat. Again finding something vegan or at least vegetarian was a real challenge, but luckily there was a burger place that actually had a vegan pattie option! The burgers were delicious and the amount of fries was huge. Later that evening we went for another walk into the nature reserve right behind the camping place. It was very calm and I took the drone for a little fly to take some videos and pictures. As we got back to the camper, we watched „In Bruges“, a tragic-comedy movie set in Bruges to get everyone ready for our visit there in two days.

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13.01.22 – A Snowy Adventure

Hey, it’s been a while! But I wanted to share a small but fun adventure with you.

Last weekend my friend Lars and I went hiking to the Feldberg (Taunus) about 40 minutes away from Langen. We went there one year ago and found a completely other world full of snow just 40 minutes away from home! So we wanted to visit that place again and hoped to find it covered it snow. And we did. It snowed the day before and everything was covered in a thick layer of snow like one would find in the bavarian mountains. We packed our stuff, including our drones (Lars got himself a Mavic Mini) and after being lucky finding a parking spot, we started to walk up the few hundred metres.

During the hike we shot some cool drone footage that we wanted to make a small video of. We walked further up the path and found the top of the small mountain surrounded from clouds, snow and piercing cold wind. Apart from the strong wind a completely different view from last time, where we could look over the sourrounding valleys for kilometres. Now, after 20 metres, people would dissolve in a grey mixture of snow and clouds. Pretty cool actually! But no condition to fly a small drone in.

After walking around the sci-fi looking telecommunications tower on top of the mountain and having a small lunch, we started our way down and back. This time we started a bit earlier with walking back down since last time, we had to descend in darkness with flashlights, which wasn’t particularly save. After a 30 minutes walk on a snowy country road we reached the car and I am still happy that we managed to get back on the slippery, snowy road with my old Opel Corsa.

We arrived safely at home and already knew we had some cool drone footage to show!