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After a long time, here we have another part on the topic of "interviews with campers". Today we connected with a blogger who calls herself Caravan Girl. This traveler camps mainly in the wild and has been visiting various European destinations for several years. In addition, he has his own work in the form of E-books and travel guides. Enough talk, let's talk. cheeky

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admin: Your work in the form of E-books is interesting and is undoubtedly based on your several years of experience in traveling and camping in the wild. How did you actually get there and what inspired you to travel around Europe, especially "in the wild"?

Caravan Girl: I have been traveling since I was 12 years old. My mother and I have been going on various sightseeing tours and to the sea since childhood. Then I became independent and went to study at a university in Ireland for half a year through the Erasmus exchange program. Thanks to that, I learned to speak English fluently and met many foreign students and also travelers from different parts of the world. We still visit with some ..wink

As I graduated from college, I went to Rhodes as a dance animator (apart from traveling, I have also danced all my life). Then I returned to the Czech Republic and started looking for a "normal job". In the end, I ended up with what I enjoy the most and continued our family tradition and organized and taught dance classes at our family dance school.

Years later, I missed a long journey, so in 2015 I set out to work for two months as delegate at a campsite in Italy. There I accommodated people in tents and caravans. I'm there for a while she lived in a caravan cool. And then I dreamed and wondered what it would be like to have your own caravan or dwelling and thus travel freely wherever I like.

In the end, it came true for me within a year. In the meantime, I met my friend, now a fiancé, and found out that we had the same dream, so we set off on an older van. First for shorter trips and then for longer ones, until we finally went to Spain for a festival. And since we both just finished work, we decided to combine it with travel. The journey eventually took us 4 months. Since then, we have been regularly traveling for half a year and a year in our van wildly around Europe.


admin: I understand when you compare traveling with a campervan in the wild economically, is it much more convenient? By the way, is the main reason for such travel being finance, or is there something more?

Caravan Girl: Yes, traveling in the wild is much cheaper than staying somewhere in a campsite. Basically, we have free accommodation like this, we can also find water on the road, we also have a solar panel, so we are also energy self-sufficient. So such travel only costs us oil and food. We have the cost of diesel depending on how much we travel, ie the slower we travel and the longer we stay in place, the cheaper it will be. And we would pay for food at home. We cook on the road, we have time for it, so even food doesn't cost us much.

Our life on the road will cost us half as cheap as life in the Czech Republic. So it pays to leave for half a year, for example, when we also check out of health insurance and rent an apartment, so we don't even have to pay rent. So that's the economic side of things. But it also has many other benefits. We most appreciate the freedom to go anywhere, and when we stop liking somewhere or the ugly weather comes, we just move somewhere south, where it is sunny and warm.

Another advantage is availability. Thanks to the fact that we are mobile, we will get to hidden or more distant places from crowded tourist destinations. Most often we camp somewhere in nature, far from civilization, preferably somewhere by the water. It's best if we park right on a deserted beach and have it all to ourselves.

admin: So can you tell us in which country you like the most, where are your favorite places? wink

Caravan Girl: My favorite country is Ireland. I used to want to go there a lot and I really fell in love with it there and I come back there regularly. Last winter I flew there again, for the fourth time, this time it was to the wedding of a friend from my studies there, and I took my friend with me and showed him the beauties of Ireland. We didn't take our residential van there, it wouldn't pay off for 2 weeks there and at our snail's pace we would only take another two trips there and we didn't have that much time in the winter. So we rented a car there and drove it there and did a road trip almost all over Ireland. (You can read about my extensive two-part article about our trip to Ireland here: Roadtrip to Ireland

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My second favorite country is Italy. We returned there this summer and drove Italy wildly and spent two months there. I am going to publish another travelogue about our trip to Italy, including practical information for caravans. I can also recommend you to travel in a wild apartment Spain, we have also been there a few times, crossed it and spent several months there. The last time we spent the whole winter there was nice and warm.

France is not bad either, there it is a little worse with camping in the wild, they have a lot of height barriers at the beaches. In France, you will find campsites on every corner as well as special caravan parks with sinks, water and connections, but in most cases these car parks are paid. But even in France you can travel wildly. We traveled in these countries only wildly, so you can only search. wink

 
admin: Undoubtedly, it was these sites that obviously supported your E-book creature, which, as we have heard, is of enormous interest. If it's not a secret, can you tell readers what book you're up to?

Caravan Girl: As I have already mentioned, after the guide to traveling in a housewife in the wild and another guide on preparations for long-term travel (including deregistration from health insurance), I am going to go a guide to traveling around the country in Italy, where you will find recommendations for places that are worth visiting in Italy and that there are many of them. It will be such a travelogue with photos, with our experiences and practical information, which will be specially designed for this type of travel.

Current E-books aka Caravan Girl

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admin: Uuf, so there will be a lot of work. How long does it actually take to write and create such an E-book?


Caravan Girl: It usually takes me 3,4 months to write such a guide. My latest guide has 10 words. Furthermore, in addition to writing an ebook, I also make the graphics of the ebook myself. Then I send an ebook to check the proofreader. And there is also a lot of invisible work behind it, where in addition to writing text and making graphics, I also program the web myself, where I give information about the manual and I also have it connected to an e-shop that matches my payments and automatically sends ebooks. So writing the ebook itself is a third of the work, another third is the graphics, and then there's a lot of work on the web to make it all work. smiley

admin:  Thank you, alias Caravan Girl, thank you for the interview and useful information, which will surely be appreciated by all lovers of camping in the wild .. wink We keep our fingers crossed that you will meet as few troubles as possible on the road and also an inspiration for writing other interesting manuals from your travels. You can all read more about Caravan Girl in the story, or "How I became girl from the caravan"

 

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