The month of December is over, all friends and family have been visited and the chores on Globus 2 have been done. We are ready for a new adventure. And that new adventure starts right away in the cold.
A new start
First of all, of course, everyone a very happy 2025 with, as we say, many safe kilometers. A new year, a new start. We left the Netherlands again on January 2. The main travel destination for the coming months is Morocco. After Morocco we want to take plenty of time for the east coast of Spain and then be back in the Netherlands around April for the necessary social contacts.
Administration
In addition to all the jobs we have done on Globus 2 we also adjusted some administrative things. Because many of our readers are also nomads or maybe want to become nomads, we share them in this blog.
Camper insurance
On our blog about " What does it cost to be a nomad " we received a lot of responses, some of the responses were about the camper insurance. I was insured with the NKC where you are allowed to travel 365 days a year but not to live in your camper. Since we do this, I delved into the insurance world again and switched to Aveco . Here you can expand your insurance with "travel, live and work in your self-built camper". Exactly what we do.
Post
We are still registered at a Dutch address. As long as we make sure to be in the Netherlands for at least four months a year, this is no problem. The only problem is the mail. When it is delivered, we only read it when we are back in the Netherlands. Sometimes that is just too late with bills. Of course we do as much as possible digitally, but some agencies are still not that far. We have now taken a service from PriPost . Here you get a kind of post box. All mail that is sent there is scanned and emailed to your email address. If there is mail with value, such as a new PIN card or a certificate, they forward the mail to a forwarding address of your choice. A family member, for example. We are curious to see how we will like this.
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Rental property
I have written before that I have decided to sell my house. However, this decision gave me a stomach ache for quite some time. I then 'sat down' with it again during a long meditation and finally decided to continue renting out my house. Despite the fact that temporary rental contracts may no longer be concluded. Now I have to wait for a new tenant. Fortunately, the rental agent takes care of the selection and formal matters.
"Happiness does not consist in the absence of problems, but in the ability to deal with them"
Startup problems
Our journey started with some inconveniences. We were supposed to leave on December 31st, but we both got sick and decided to recover a bit first. With colds and little energy we finally left on January 2nd. Just before Luxembourg we stopped for a place to stay. Kelly wanted to start cooking, but unfortunately no gas.... Could I have done something wrong when installing the second gas tank? After some searching and half an hour later I turned out not to have pressed the button of the HD gas hose for the monocontrol . So panic for nothing.
Frozen water pipes
The second night we were a bit before Dijon in France. It was chilly. About 5 °C below zero. In the evening we had turned on the parking heater, but we always turn it off when we go to sleep. The nice thick blankets keep us warm and otherwise we always have each other. When we woke up in the morning there was no water coming out of the tap, the water pipes were frozen. I tried for a while with the electric heater, but without result. I was afraid that the water pump had frozen. For the time being that means living with water from a jerry can. Hours later the tap suddenly worked again. So those pipes had frozen well. From now on we will leave a heater on in temperatures below zero.
All in all, we have to get back into it again.
Where are we?
So we're off again and a little over 1,000 km since our departure. After some start-up problems we're already in the South of France and we hope to drive into Spain tomorrow. Let's see what the temperature is like there. After all the grey December days in the Netherlands and the cold of last night we're longing for some sun.
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