Off road pitch in Kazakhstan

Room on wheels with a view

At the beginning of a second coronavirus lock-down, I manage to stay optimistic about the future. Thriving on memories of beautiful camping spots and longing for future ones, I collected some stunning examples of really nice pitches that we found on past journeys. Morning in Kazakhstan Indeed, often one just stumbles upon places like these […]

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Oasis near Sarykum dune Dagestan

Memories of uncharted terrain

We just crossed the border from Azerbaijan into Dagestan, the most southern and one of the most infamous autonomous Russian republics. Together with Ossetia, Chechnya and a bunch of even more tiny, would-be independent states in its neighborhood, hopefully Dagestan won’t live up to its reputation of ethnic instability, terrorist attacks or kidnapping while we […]

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