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These are all the countries we visited overland during our world travels. (2007) Netherlands (2014) Belgium France Luxemburg (2015) Spain Morocco Andorra (2016) Namibia Botswana Zambia Tanzania Rwanda Uganda Kenya Malawi Zimbabwe (2017) South Africa eSwatini (Swaziland) Lesotho (2018) Germany Denmark Sweden Norway (2019) Switzerland Italy Monaco Portugal (2020) Gibraltar (2021)Liechtenstein Austria Finland (2022) Estonia … Read more
A new (holiday) home in Chaam Mid-May 2024 we bought a plot with a holiday bungalow in Chaam, Noord Brabant. The current igloo is old and no longer up to date in terms of sustainability. That is why Gert Jan designed a new house. From mid-May to the end of September 2024, Gert Jan and … Read more
We are Sonja and Gert Jan, in 2019 we have decided to travel full-time, together with our sturdy Land Rover Defender camper, Milady Landy. Sonja and Gert Jan We are parents of 4 beautiful adult children, Michiel, Suzanne, Gerben and Rindert and grandparents of Jules and Amélie, the children of Michiel and Maartje. We have … Read more
During the Overlanders meeting in Ranst, we are on the program on Saturday, September 4, 2021 with our lecture “Making travel your life“, or as it is on the program: Permanent travel. In this blog I give a summary of this presentation. Summary In our lecture we will talk about how we have made traveling … Read more
We drive with an old diesel car, a Land Rover Defender 130, our Milady Landy. That’s not the most environmentally friendly car, so we decided to compensate for the miles we drive by investing in trees in Uganda. Eco-Friendly Travel I borrowed this title from the ANWB-Kampioen, the article in the Kampioen of July/August 2021 … Read more
How do you make plans in a time when the world is locked down and it is not clear where and when we can travel again? For the time being we are in the Netherlands and will remain so for a while … Our house has been sold We sold our house on 1 February … Read more
At the time of writing this article (November 11, 2020), the whole world is orange or red according to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Orange: Travel only if you need to. There are health and safety risks, an entry ban and / or quarantine obligation.Red: All travel is discouraged. We have therefore decided to … Read more
In September we gave a presentation about our journey in and through Morocco, on September 1 and 3 in Etten-Leur and on September 16 in Bergen op Zoom. In total we were able to receive about 130 interested people. They were animated lectures, we, Sonja and Gert Jan, told enthusiastically about our adventures in Morocco, … Read more
