Overland with Kids

Andrew Unwell
We made good time to the Narva border, our final stop in Estonia. The border between Estonia and Russia is essentially a small river division between the two countries separated by a bridge you could walk across in just 5 minutes and where very old, huge fortified castles sit astride proudly on either side [...]

How the Children are Feeling
Jessica says
“It’s horrible ………….. I love it!”
AJ says “Can we buy a dog now and why do we have to do homework? - we’re already seeing the world!”.
As per Lithuania, there were no border controls on arrival to either Latvia or Estonia which made crossing into both countries nice and hassle-free.
Latvia
Latvia [...]

AJ says:
“We saw dolphins and sea lions. I liked the sea lions best because they could clap. The smaller one could bite it’s tail and the fat one could sing and got angry when it didn’t have it’s own fish. We ran up and down some huge sand dunes, dug holes and pretended to do [...]

From Poland into Lithuania there are border control buildings but no-one at home - we just sailed through in seconds and bought our Vignette for road tax on arrival. The first thing that struck us about our arrival was how surprisingly beautiful Lithuania is - and immaculate - and clean - with excellent road systems. There [...]

The Caravan
With our crumbling wreck of a caravan safely stored where we left it at the garage in L’viv, Ukraine, we decided our next steps would be that we had to get rid of it - somewhere and somehow - we couldn’t take it any further. The result was to donate it to a guy [...]

“For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women and children, mainly Jews from various countries of Europe. Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940-1945.”
(Written on plaques inscribed in many languages between the ruins of crematoria at Birkenau at the International Monument to [...]

The Caravan
Our caravan collapsed - it was already falling apart at the seams but we didn’t realise just how bad the problem was. It is now condemmed to the scrap heap as unsafe. The wood inside the facia has been rotting from the elements for sometime now and Andrew maintains it is a crap design [...]

Dad’s highlight of the week:
“Watching the England opening game in a Ukranian port on a Turkish boat with a Turkish crew.”
Jessica says:
“Our family is like the cartoon The Incredibles.”
Dad says:
“Yes - incredible that we’ve got this far!”
On arrival to Ukraine we became famous with the Border Control Police and Skadovsk Port Authorites for being the [...]

Apologies we just spotted we had the wrong spelling for Zonguldak (not Zongludak) in our last post.
Jessica says:“Hi! How are you doin’? We climbed up a mountain on the field trip of our lives, looking at some 2,000 year old statues of Gods right on the top of Mount Nemrut. It was a very interesting place. Now, [...]

Jessica says
“We are in Goreme, Cappadochia in Turkey. We went to see Rock Valley where there are lots of fairy chimney and toadstool shapes with houses and churches carved inside them. There are also underground cities nearby - the biggest one can hold 10,000 people and has 8 floors. You can only get to them [...]