The Bodensee: Lake Of Five Time Zones
The Bodensee (or Lake Constance), at 273 kilometres long, belongs to no singular country, intersecting Austria, Switzerland and Germany. This, alongside a strangely Mediterranean climate, has given it the feeling of being stuck in a timeless holiday bubble…
Wetsuits: The Achilles Heel of the Dude
The first time I wore a wetsuit was on a British seaside holiday. We were on a windswept bit of the Cornish coastline, and I’d naively agreed to learn how to surf with my sister and two other unfortunate children…
Van Life: How to Avoid a Post-Graduate Existential Crisis
It’s day three of the road trip — bitterly cold this morning. Valentin’s coaxed his mop of hair under a woolly hat with some medusa-esque results. I’m on the passenger seat, two jumpers, one blanket deep, as we drive to the Großer Alpsee, a lake in the Allgäu Alps in South Germany…
Van Life: Adapting to COVID-19
Day 2 of 365 ¼. We’re on the side of the B308 somewhere between Oberjoch and Schattwald (I’m told it’s not actually pronounced Shat World), three minutes over the Austrian border. Racing against the sun, we ended up plumping for a strip of concrete for the night — one of those make-shift carparks that stretch…
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Hi, I’m Rachael, a literature grad, on a year of travel with partner, Valentin.
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