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great journey 🇸🇪 day 525 we had so no idea what sweden would be like. and camper e

Great Journey 🇸🇪 Day 525
We had absolutely no idea what Sweden would be like. And we had zero camper experience. Neither summer nor winter.

If someone had told us a year ago that we would be travelling in the snow in a van high up in northern Europe: we would have just laughed.

Never would we have thought,
️ that at (peak) -23 degrees we coax our Felix to start.
🧤 that instead of beach towels we are constantly drying our ski trousers and woollen hats and
🫖 that tea will satisfy one of our basic needs for warmth.
🛌 that we fall asleep under 3-5 blankets and think that's great (we're just imagining how we probably have to push away the last blanket when it's 30 or 40 degrees in the south without air conditioning) .

We would also have laughed if someone had told us that the roads are less slippery again from -15 degrees and that Felix copes pomfortably with this with his winter tyres.

Yes, that's how it is with ideas. After all, we had seen each other in Morocco or Peru for this winter. Maybe even in Greece in our beloved Koroni. We wanted to walk on the beach.

And now: snow, little sunlight (but lots of vitamin D from the pill pack!) and a closeness that makes us happy. It brings us closer together and at the same time shows us our limits. Which proves to us every day what a small fart we are in this immense nature. How we can't avoid the cold despite the best apps. And how almost all our water pipes freeze and we simply have to live with filled-up PET bottles. That we would not be able to travel so self-determined here without gas, diesel and electricity.

And the best thing about it: we take it all in, see what needs to be solved, think about whether we want to travel further north or back. Plan from day to day. Have time. And are full of gratitude for this life.

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Barbara Mauersberger
Barbara Mauersberger
2 years ago

Yes dear ones - this also lets us learn humility before all the natural normalities on this earth of ours + how nice that you both "come to terms" with it and grow together a bit again 😇

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