We were “picked up” by a father with his 2 year old son at a playground on a hot day in Tathra, New South Wales, while cycling from Sydney to Melbourne sometimes later in January 2017. Father and son had observed us searching for a suitable campsite and thought “we can do better then a site […]
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Hauling our bikes, loaded with kids and gear, over mountain ranges or through drenching rain, while keeping the kids happy, probably sounds a far cry from a relaxing holiday. It turns out however, that our physical exercise, the unfiltered exposure to the elements and the human encounters are unique experiences that create lasting happiness. Being in nature for […]
Read More ›For those of you who are curious about our daily routine, we have recorded a 15 seconds timelapse of how we set up our Eureka tent. I wish it would really be 15 sec. 😉
Read More ›While riding one of the most beautiful cycle routes ever in Tasmania we had to stop twice for snakes. One of which we captured on video :-O
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Do you know the feeling that you just want to “get out of here” (as 3 year old Tayanika puts it in her dry humour)? “Why am I doing this to myself/ us/the kids?” Cycling up a steep hill on a sticky dirtroad, somewhere in Tasmania, these words repeat in my head again and again. […]
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We actually celebrated Tayanika’ s 3rd birthday two times, one time in Melbourne and one time in Tasmania. We had a yummy pre-birthday cake and songs with friends that had invited us to their house in “Altona” (sic!). A suburb southwest of Melbourne, not to confuse with that of Hamburg, despite it also being near […]
Read More ›After arriving in cosmopolitan Melbourne a friend of ours told us about Martin “the German Pirate“. He is regularly fishing and cleaning up plastic on one of the beautiful beaches here in Melbourne (St. Kilda Beach). He is also known as the rat whisperer and you can see him feeding his friend Hugo a rare Australian water […]
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