Europe

Europe is the ultimate playground for the road trip purist. Nowhere else on earth can you drive through three different languages and four distinct culinary traditions in a single afternoon. From the sun-baked olive groves of the Mediterranean to the gravity-defying hairpins of the Norwegian fjords, Europe offers a level of density that makes every mile count. Whether you are chasing the midnight sun in the north or navigating the ancient stone villages of the south, these guides cover the nuances of crossing borders, mastering mountain passes, and finding the hidden backroads of the Old World.

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Beyond the Ring Road – Camping in Iceland under the Midnight Sun

  44 minutes of reading

No wonder Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth starts here. The "Land of Ice and Fire" feels like the furnace of our planet where primordial forces create, destroy, or remain trapped and frozen in time. Here everything cracks and creaks. Bubbles from below or thunders from above. It is a land of extremes. Much like the opposites of Fire and Ice, the Sun may never set, or never show itself. Amongst these extremes, peaceful sheep graze the few lush plains and hop over streams of glacial cold water. Sturdy Icelandic horses weather the outdoors year-round, everywhere from

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Greece Road Trip – Peloponnese & Mainland – Athens to Thessaloniki

  34 minutes of reading

The temples of the gods in Athens, Sounion, and Olympia. The ancient cities of Mycenae and Delphi. The Kyanos blue waters on the island of Zakynthos. The otherworldly monoliths and monasteries in Meteora. The foothills of Mount Olympus at Litochoro, and the coastal towns of Nafplion, Galaxidi, and Thessaloniki. Nothing can quite stand up to the overload of beauty of driving among thousands of olive trees, deafened by the chorus of cicadas, caressed by the sea breeze, and stopping on the rugged coast to look at a Greek sunset. I have visited Greece many times since I was a child, and

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