We bought our van in April 2024, and have been building on it continuously in weekends and the odd working day evening since then. Although we were progressing, we weren't progressing fast. And we wanted to leave in spring to able to enjoy most of the summer traveling. So in January I started workin...
After a couple of days at my parents learning how to use a sewing machine (and how hard it is to sew something properly) we finished the curtains we wanted to add. Now it was time to start our trip properly!
We wanted to start easy: after my mom's advice we headed to the Betuwe, to Leerdam. We par...
You can probably guess how we spent the time at the house of Federica's parents: we had breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Oh, and gelato. We did go for strolls around Pegli and Federica went running and I tried some mountain biking in the hills.
And we did have to do some work: the AC in the car...
The time had come to say goodbye to Pegli and continue the journey. Packed with homemade lunches and pasta we squirmed back into local traffic with the van. Heading: Modena. But we didn't need to arrive there yet, our garage appointment is not until Monday. So we'll spend some time on the way.
We...
To take a break from hiking we spent the next day around the little towns below Modena. These were cute but not very interesting. We visited a natural park featuring odd mud volcanoes and took a siesta in an empty parking lot. Then we let ourselves be majorly impressed (/s) by a ceramics museum in a...