Next steps towards our own camper

It was clear that we were looking for something bigger. In the summer of 2019 we rented a 7.5 meter long camper for three weeks. With this we drove through Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

We soon found out that this model camper might be a bit on the large side for us. Especially moving in smaller streets in villages was often a challenge with a large vehicle. We liked this large model in terms of space and comfort. In the end we did a 'test' weekend camping with a somewhat smaller camper. The conclusion was that this way of travelling and living increasingly appealed to us. It certainly made us decide to start our journey in 2020.

When we made the decision to sell our house and quit our jobs in the spring of 2020, nothing could stop us.

We had camped in different models, we knew what we wanted and what we didn't want. For example, the bed. We are not going on holiday for three weeks, oh no, we actually are going to live in it. We also thought comfort was important. You live outside a lot, but in our mind we also wanted to travel to colder places.
And because our thoughts went out to a somewhat larger motorhome, we decided to purchase electric bicycles. This way we could park the camper outside the city and then move around by bicycle.

In the summer of 2020 we bought our camper. A beautiful Dethleffs from 2015. Proud as we were, we packed our things and left the Netherlands after the transfer of our house in early September. Our journey had started!

You read that right, our journey started during the corona pandemic. We drove through Europe in our own house on wheels. We did Germany, Switzerland and Italy at our leisure, after all, we had plenty of time. It was now early November and borders started to close more and more because of the corona infections. We then decided to drive back to the Netherlands, park the camper and catch the plane. You can read more about this in our travel blogs of La Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro.