Van Life – Page 6 – World Wide Walkies

Living Large By Living Small – Why I Chose An Alternative Lifestyle

A picture of The Beast, a 6x4-wheel drive Volvo N10 ex-army truck converted into a camper with author Jacqueline Lambert standing in its doorway in a yellow dress

I’ve been featured in a magazine in Pittsburgh by a journalist I met in Sarajevo. Click on the link below to read the article about our alternative lifestyle, featured in @postindustrial: Living Large By Living Small After losing their jobs, a couple converts an Army truck and hits the road The journalist, Carmen Gentile, wroteContinue reading “Living Large By Living Small – Why I Chose An Alternative Lifestyle”

Berat – A Stroll Through Albania’s ‘City of 1000 Windows’

Albania: Riots In Tirana & Getting A Go Anywhere Truck Stuck. Again…

Our first morning in Albania, and it was all drama before breakfast. The headline read: Clashes between rival fans and Albanian police in Tirana on the eve of the UEFA final left 19 police officers injured, while 80 fans were sent back to Italy for riotous behaviour.

Overlanding in Albania – Bari to Durrës

We weren’t sure what to expect in Albania. At the end of WWII, Albania became Europe’s equivalent to North Korea; a secretive, closed and isolationist country. Albania spent four decades under the iron grip of paranoid extremist ruler Enver Hoxha. As a communist state, Hoxha aligned Albania first with Russia, then with China, but brokeContinue reading “Overlanding in Albania – Bari to Durrës”