Category: overlanding

The dream cove on Peleponnese

In the mid of March 2022 I found this extraordinary beautiful place. Although parking and camping is forbidden directly at the cove, it’s allowed to stay at the beach right next to it. Between the cove and the beach were I lived for a couple of days, there is a hill with an destroyed fortress on top of it. I hiked up to the fortress, fly around with the drone, meditated, chilled at the beach and helped a guy from Germany who got stucked with his car.

At the beach where I parked Rosinante, there were little areas. Most of them were just big enough for one or two cars. So everybody got his/ her own little space. It was the first time that I camped at a place where a couple of other people were camping since I started my journey in December 2021. The other guys were pretty nice and I talked mostly with a guy from Germany and a young French couple I called “the Frenchy Friends”. It was nice to meet some other travelers and I just recognized, that by meeting other travelers I get to know there home countries. I never thought about that before.

Especially the conversations with “the Frenchy Friends I enjoyed a whole lot. From the first moment on we had very interesting topics and shared a lot of our good and not so good lifetime experiences.

I think, I wouldn’t risk it again

On that day in March 2022, it was on the edge of what Rosinante and I are capable of on our own.

At that time, I’ve been seeking situations like this. But that has been changed now. I wouldn’t risk damaging Rosinante so hard anymore. Maybe today, I wouldn’t go on that soap-like muddy road. I’m not sure. I think today, saving the money and enabling myself to live this free life for longer, would be more important for me than the kick of a recovery like this. But I don’t regret what happened and every time I remember this day, I have a smile on my face.

On that day passing the ditch Rosinante got stuck in later, has been no problem. But when I was maneuvering for a good position to go for the second one I needed every centimeter I could get on this soap like mud and took just one too many. Without the pretty distant tree as an anchor point, I would have had to dig the whole track or get some help. For the second ditch, there was no anchor point and so I did everything I could to prevent sliding into this one as well. And it worked out 🎉

Thanks @RonnyDahl for your offroad and recovery videos on YouTube, they are really good.

In situations like this, I don’t get mad or crazy but I get excited and kind of under pressure. But for me, it doesn’t feel like there is no hope left. It feels more like being afraid of doing something wrong.

Realizing feelings like that at the moment they occur helps me a lot to enjoy situations like that.

Friends and another way of overlanding on Corfu in Greece

I made my way to Corfu to visit Natalia a friend from the time where I have been studying in Magdeburg, Germany. We haven‘t seen each other for about 20 years and barely had contact at all. But when I saw that she just moved to Corfu with her boyfriend Petrus, I thought visiting her would be fun. It was kind of funny to meet after such a long time and we had a great time.

I lernt a lot about Corfu and Greece and met other friends of Natalia and Petrus. We went for dinner, in a bar, around Corfu town and had a dinner at Ines place. Ines is a friend of Natalia and Petrus that has three dogs and about seven to twenty cats (twenty because two of the cats a pregnant).

Corfu town is really beautiful and the small streets are like a labyrinth. Even with a postal address, I can’t find places there. The only way to find places for me is via Google Maps markers. And the locals go that way, too. It’s quite a miracle that the package that Thomas (a friend from Germany) send for me to Natalia arrived. In the package there was the new drone from DJI and a 360 degree action cam.

Overlanding is different on Corfu because as an island it’s more compact. I think in the summer season it will become really crowded with tourists everywhere. And on Corfu you really never know what happens if you go for remote beaches! One time I got lost in an olive farm and the other time I did some of the most difficult offroading so far when it comes to stone steps. In Corfu there are a lot of beautiful places and definitely recommend going there.