OUR WORLD TRIP STORIES
On Friday 30th of September 2016 we left Amsterdam by bicycle for an unlimited world trip! For a long time we kept all options open and we had no idea when, how, for how long and where we would leave. This is the way we want to travel, the best things happen when you don't plan. At the beginning of June 2016 the idea arose to leave from home and we would use the bicycle as our first mode of transport. Three years later we travelled more than 35.000 kilometers on human power. We cycled to the end of the world, and then started going back to the north. Read all our world trip stories below.
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July 14, 2020
Early in the morning we sit in a warm morning sun next to our tent. Although we crawled exhausted into the tent, we slept badly on our sleeping mats. At four o\'clock in the morning, the outside cover of the tent turned ocher yellow and our autopilot started...
June 25, 2020
We are so used to packing our things that it hardly gives us a feeling that we are leaving on a trip. In the past four years, we have stayed a dozens of times for an extended period in the same place...
February 14, 2020
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is David and I am responsible for your wellbeing on this train. We will make sure you are comfortable and enjoy your ride. From now on your are one big family in the train, and you can't choose that family" the enthusiastic train attendant says almost prophetically...
February 7, 2020
It is an annual ritual, just before Christmas, with the Christmas tree rigged and the winter more or less in the country, I watch the movie 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas' from 1954...
January 21, 2020
All beautiful songs come to an end, as does the song in Fort Kent. We were able to extend our visa for one month, but we cannot repeat the same trick twice. Carl and Pat explicitly asked us to stay until Thanksgiving to get to know the family...
January 11, 2020
On October 7th Carl picks us up in the park next to the river, where we take out the canoe for the last time. Less than a year ago we planned our route to here, Fort Kent, Maine. We didn't book a hotel or made a reservation for a place...
December 20, 2019
Our canoe trip is almost perfect, but something important is missing. Everyone told us that Maine is full of moose and we would see a lot. After more than twenty days in Maine, we have seen hundreds of moose tracks, moose poop and even a dead moose on the back of a jeep, but no living moose...
December 13, 2019
The Northern Forest Canoe Trail takes us past historic waterways, once used by indigenous people. They used canoes made of birch bark to paddle on the rivers and lakes. There were no roads and the water was by far the easiest was to canoe in the wilderness...
November 29, 2019
In addition to low water levels, portages and upstream obstacles, there are also many other obstacles that make the Northern Forest Canoe Trail one of the toughest trails...
November 22, 2019
Normally the river brings us to the bridge, the dividing line between America and Canada. It needs no explanation why we arrive on foot at the same bridge...
August 15, 2018
The roads in the Andes lie from the top of the mountain to deep into the valley. There is a small bridge to cross the river and then the new climb...
August 4, 2018
'Stop!' shouts Olivier, but it is already to late. The chain jumps from the outer gear and compresses between the spokes. We have just arrived at the paved road...
July 20, 2018
For two weeks we are locked up in La Paz, Bolivia. Every day we expect the arrival of our package from Belgium, but it doesn't come.
June 6, 2018
We ride on a bumpy dirt road as the sand becomes whiter and harder. A little later everything is white. In front of us lies an immense plain, as flat as the Netherlands...
June 3, 2018
'3,000 meters', Olivier shouts at Zoë, 'are you already feeling it?' "No, nothing!" Zoë laughs back. Olivier is gasping on his bike and feels the altitude...
May 25, 2018
We dive into the Andes, although diving is not really the right word for what’s coming. Santa Cruz is located 400 meters above sea level
May 21, 2018
"Do you already recognise it?" Zoë asks ten times as we get closer and closer to our final destination. 'No, not yet', Olivier says confident, because...
May 18, 2018
Yearning Olivier continues to dream of the cuñape he put in his mouth three years ago. Olivier visited the wedding of his friend Simon...
February 23, 2017
Will our second departure succeed? All day they have been testing the motor and the huge smile on skipper Dieter his face...
February 21, 2017
We got to know him on the Ferry to the Canary Islands and now, one month later, wave them goodbye like family...
February 20, 2017
It is Monday morning after New Years Eve and we start the day in the Marina with best wishes to our colleagues...
