Travelogue | Olivia Motley in Europe

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This travel blog started in 2017 as a way to document my adventures when I first moved to Europe.

As of November 2021 I am repurposing it to document the big trip Ben and I are making in our campervan, Louis. We are exploring alternative and sustainable living solutions in various permaculture farms and communities across southern Europe.

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Albania

November 6-14 2021 Rather than a play-by-play of what two western people did on a caravan trip through Albania, I would like to instead...

Montenegro

October 29th- November 6th 2021 Cigarette smoke poured out of the booth at the Croatia/Montenegro border crossing, and the guards didn’t...

Croatia

October 20- 30th, 2021 We left Slovenia with no clear community to go to next. Much of Eastern Europe has either not caught on to the...

Sunny Hill, Slovenia

September 20- October 20th 2021 It was fig season when we arrived to Hrvoji. A few years ago, I couldn’t have found Slovenia on a map,...

Why we go.

“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer We packed up our life and moved into a camper because...

An angel in sequins and fur: MALTA & GOZO.

I screeched up to the boat terminal at the exact moment the ferry was supposed to depart. My 80 year old taxi driver screamed goodbye as...

Five days with a German I just met in Asturias

Last Thursday I decided to go to Asturias tomorrow. I put out feelers on Couchsurfing. A man named Jorge agreed to host me in Gijon on...

Tiles, Grapes, Castles, and Strangers [Northern Portugal]

It is the year two thousand and sixteen. I am twenty-four years old. I am sleeping on the tile floor of a laundry room of a complete...

16 Hours with Bill in Amsterdam.

I’m in Amsterdam for 16 hours. An old man paid 500 euros for me to accompany him for one night here. We will call him Bill. Bill is a...

Champagne and Trains [Swiss Alps]

I found myself tangled amidst the Christmas decorations of a Chalet in a Swiss village called Grimentz. My hair has a mind of its own,...

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