Finally, it's starting

... the van is packed, last emails sent, the apartment handed over to Leonie, and now it's time to go. Monday morning, July 30th, we will sit in our van, still can't really believe it - 3 months of traveling!!! - and head towards Italy.

First stop in Tuscany. We are tired from the past few weeks and full of joy that the journey is finally starting. Too tired to go to a restaurant, we enjoy the view with an after-work beer (or what is it called when you have permanent after-work?!) and leftovers from the German fridge. Then we cuddle up for our first night in the van and fall asleep - still a bit restless - to the chirping of crickets.

At 7 a.m. the alarm clock rings and we start our first little project: Stephan wants to learn yoga, so we start with a joint yoga session at sunrise and a view of the Tuscan landscape on our first real day of travel.