A first meeting with Gernot Rammer, CEO of the GentleTent company, had already taken place in Vienna during the summer, where the exchange of ideas and future visions was initially taking place.
Greece is known worldwide to be the perfect vacation spot. Vourvourou is found on the middle peninsula of beautiful Halkidiki,it’s a place by the sea where you can find beautiful beaches, warm crystal clear water in any possible shade of blue!!!
Just in time for the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf finished, GentleTent from Vienna will present for the first time a globally unique inflatable tent cabin for Double Cap Pick Ups with the GT Pick Up.
We admit it - several times we had overloaded the campsite network with our electric water heater, which then temporarily shut down the power supply followed.
For self-builders and users of camper vans, especially for the off-road and 4x4 users always a topic is the lack of space and related with that planning and the subsequent implementation of a kitchen into the vehicle.
In was a really unexpected meeting in the early morning when a black minibus entered the campground Rino at Lake Ohrid, the sliding door opened and couple of people, all equipped with huge cameras jumped off the bus.
Back from the attempt to cross the Greater Caucasus on the Georgian Highway in the direction to Russia, Micha and Philipp told us about their experiences along the high mountain road, which leads up to 2,382 meters altitude.
Several times we had reported about the innovative company GentleTent from Vienna, which could cause a stir with their inflatable tent constructions at the various fairs such as the CMT Stuttgart or the Caravan Salon Dusseldorf.
It is sometimes unbelievable how fast development in the caravan and camping industry is progressing in terms of ancillary equipment, which is also true for camper vehicle technology in general.
In Greece we had met for the first time and because there was some work to be done on their really special "Camper mobile home", the intermediate stay of Philipp and Micha extended to a few days.
If someone does a trip, then he can experience lot of things to happen! A saying which basically applies to every traveler, and especially to campers going far away.
There are trends and innovations in all areas of leisure activities, which became particularly apparent at the relevant trade fairs such as the CMT in Stuttgart or the abf in Hanover.
Our already described hike on the Jablanica mountain range had brought us together with a team of trail markers, who wanted to re-mark the path up to the mountain lakes above Vejčani from Gorna Belica as a starting point.
The partly guided tour leads from Shkoder to Tirana, Durres and Elbasan in Albania, to Struga and Ohrid to the lake of the same name, to Stobi, Bitola in Macedonia/FYROM and Vergina, Meteora and Thessalonica in Greece.
Many times we have encountered limits in the course of our project work on the development of gentle tourism and the creation of an easy-to-follow camper route in the Balkans, which we had little or no consideration in the planning of the places to be integrated during the exploratory work.
The purpose of each fair is the presentation of novelties in their industry, but the exchange of information from the participating exhibitors during the trade fairs too, especially when it should reach the traveler and their targets.
In order to continue the preparation of the Camper Cultural Tour through Albania-Macedonia-Greece in April 2017, which will lead through the towns of Shkodar, Kruja, Tirana, Durres, Elbasan, Struga, Ohrid, Stobi, Bitola, Meteora, Rapsani and Thessaloniki, we agreed for a meeting with the operators from Shkodar, Tirana and Struga.
For more than two years, we have been traveling around the Balkans and Turkey within our project work "A journey of Intimacy and Culture along the Roman Roads".
An interesting side aspect of our project "A journey of Intimacy and Culture along the Roman Roads" is getting to know the most varied camping and camper sites and the vehicles located there.