So, after two years of traveling Western Europe, Thailand and Indonesia – are we not happy, or at least happier? I guess I can only answer that question for myself, and even that answer will probably evolve over the years. Our hopes and expectations were not very clear, but among them were the hope to…
Gili Trawangan and Ubud
After our ten day stop-over in Saigon, we took an almost empty flight to Bali. From there, we immediately continued to Gili Trawangan, a car-free island next to Bali’s neighboring island Lombok. Here, we spent about three weeks at the Green Banana hotel. Our eldest quickly became friends with a girl from the neighborhood and…
Ho Chi Minh
To get from Chiang Mai to Bali, the cheapest flight is via Hi Chi Minh. And since we had to land there already, we decided to spend 10 days in this Southern Vietnam metropolis. Ignorant of the fact we did not need visa, we waited for an hour and a half to be told about…
Thailand 2: Bangkok, Si Racha/Pattaya and Chiang Mai
From Koh Phangan, we took the Surat Thani – Bangkok night train in order to check out some hospitals for giving birth in Bangkok. The unborn moved vividly when we came to our preferred hospital and this way helped us to decide we would not fly back in order to give birth in Germany. For…
Thailand: Phuket, Ko Samui and Pangan
In early September, we finally managed to leave the Europe and fly to Thailand. The only direct flight was to Phuket, so that‘s where we spent about ten days getting rid of the kids‘ Jetlag, cleaning up the beach, enjoying the waves, yoga, massages, and discovering Thai food. Then we moved over to Ko Samui,…
Via Madrid to the Balearic Islands and the summer
From Tenerife, Simon took the cargobike loaded with the electric folding bike and most of our luggage on a ferry to Huelva and from there Madrid and Barcelona. In Madrid, he was hosted by very nice Warmshowers hosts who introduced him to the local cycling community. Before continuing to Barcelona, he cycled to https://garaldeainclusiva.wordpress.com/, an…
Teneriffa / La Gomera
We reached Teneriffa by ferry from Fuerteventura via Gran Canaria, with a rough ride on the short stretch from Gran Canaria to Fuerteventura. We explored Santa Cruz for a few days and were happy to see how green it is. Then we managed to get our bikes and trailer into an overland bus heading south…
How to get your electric bike to the Canaries
This article describes how you can get your electric bike from Toulouse (France) along the Mediterranean coast to Cádiz in order to take the ferry from there to the Canaries. There may be other routes that you can work out following the bullet points below. JJs brother proposed to spend a month on Fuerteventura to…
Map updated
I just updated the map on /the-plan so as to contain all these wonderful places a mindful traveller may want to visit in Europe and Asia. The map represents a collection of ecovillages / eco-communities, natural sites, family-friendly workaway opportunities, educational institutions, worldschooling places, and so on. They are compiled from various sources like ecotopia,…
Catalonia
Simon crossed the Pyrenees by train from Toulouse to Barcelona (via Latour de Querol, infos on Rodalies.gencat.cat), with the cargobike and trailer rather unproblematically taken aboard. The rest of the family joined him by plane from Berlin in Barcelona. They had taken a one month break because the nights in the tent were too cold…