Category: Preperations

Everyday struggles

Long time, no laugh? I bet we can change that! Of course, not everything goes well while converting an empty sprinter van into a home on wheels. The building supplies store turned into our new happy place. How much can go wrong here, you might ask yourself. We’ll give you a better idea: Get ready…
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Wooden walls

We realized that a lot of our budget for converting Oswald into our cozy home will be needed for wood. So we’ve been searching for ways of saving money on that. Luckily, Tim knows a carpenter who was ready to help. He ordered pretty fancy wood for Oswald’s walls for a really good deal. A…
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Time for furniture: Part 1

Since we got rid of our cardboard furniture, we decided that we need a new seating area, a kitchen and everything you need for a living for a few month. So we took a trip to the building supplies store to get some wood, screws, angle brackets and all we need for the first steps.…
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What about the traveling?

The idea to put our shared flat on wheels and travel Europe together came from Felix and Tim. I was not 100 per cent convinced in the beginning, since I just moved to Hamburg. But those two can be really convincing, I’ll tell you! After long nights of talking about how to get to know…
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Make it warm and bright

After some days of absence Oswald found its way back to us. The new clutch works perfectly fine and everything else seems to be pretty good, too. Let’s go for the further steps than! Since we are planning to start our tour somewhen in late summer it might not be warm all the time. Plus,…
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What to do now?

There is an idea. We have a van. It has a name. Now it is your time to guess: What to do next? Cleaning? Would have been a good shout. But we thought there’s still time for that. Let’s first stuff the van with loads of cardboard – great! For us, the cardboard model helped…
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Oswald van Europe

There was this plan of traveling Europe but without a vehicle we couldn’t start. Lots of nights we sat together, talking about how amazing it’s gonna be but than we recognized that time is running and we knew we really had to start organizing now if we want to start the trip this summer. So…
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Big plans!

Another travel blog! Whoop whoop – isn’t that great and super innovative?! We know, it is a bit too much in fashion to create your own travel blog. And we are aware that this one might get lost somewhere in between all those other traveler stories. Nevertheless, we are sure that we can give you…
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