“Also i find’s a guats Platzl“, (“Well, I think it’s a good place,” ) Mathias tries to convince me in his best Austrian. I look at the picturesque country lane we’re standing on, the meadow of flowers next to the bus, the traditional Romanian cross at the fork in the road and the sky-wide view: I think it sucks.
What is it like to live with your new partner in three square meters?
A press officer from Berlin and a ski instructor from Austria traveled through Europe in a converted van. The author humorously tells of Ukrainian barbecues, herds of Montenegrin sheep gone wild and a few interpersonal challenges. In this book, no one will find the formula for happiness or readjust their nasal chakra. Instead, it provides an honest insight into everyday life as a camper in a humorous way and does away with the idealized Instagram vanlife world. Because the fun stops when you’re sitting on a bus without a toilet in sub-zero temperatures with a bladder infection. Really.
When Sarah and Mathias met, they quickly realized it was now or never. Although they hardly knew each other, they bought a VW bus together and converted it into a camper. A few months later, they simply set off on their adventure in this camper van: across the Balkans and Scandinavia to the North Cape and on to a surprising destination on their journey.
Along the way, they sweated in Bosnia at 40 degrees and froze in Lapland at minus 20 degrees, grilled marshmallows around a campfire in the wilderness of Finland, partied the night away with the Latvian military orchestra and had some other exciting adventures. When German and Austrian temperaments collide in a small camper van, it can sometimes be an explosive mixture. A van with three square meters as their first home together pushed the travelers to their limits more than once.
This book is an authentic travelogue about van life beyond the glossed-over Instagram world. It tells of the departure of two people who dare to make a new start and not only embark on an adventure together in a camper van, but also get involved with each other.
