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By motorcycle
to the edge of Europe

Seven months, a tent and a fully loaded motorcycle. In 2022 I rode from Germany all the way up to the North Cape, on through the Baltics and back home again.

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Why I travel

Not to arrive –
but to be on the road.

Why put yourself through it? A tent instead of a hotel, rain instead of a couch, days without seeing a soul… Honestly? That is exactly why. On the bike I am part of the landscape, not just a spectator. I feel every drop in temperature, smell the forest after the rain, and when the evening sun sits over a fjord, that moment belongs to me alone.

No tour operator, no hotel, no fixed route – I just ride until I find a spot I like, pitch the tent and see what happens. And honestly: the best stories happen exactly when nothing goes to plan. That is what I try to capture here – raw, honest and unfiltered.

7Months on the road, non-stop

71°NNorth Cape reached

8Countries on the route

18Travel journals on the blog

GermanyDenmarkSwedenNorwayFinlandEstoniaLatviaLithuania→ and back

The motorcycle

Triumph Tiger 800 XC

My trusty companion: a Triumph Tiger 800 XC, built in 2012. Not a high-tech toy, but an honest travel enduro that simply runs – even after tens of thousands of kilometres, gravel roads and days of rain. The three-cylinder sounds like nothing else and carries the tent, the luggage and me reliably to the edge of Europe.

799 cc inline three-cylinderEngine

approx. 95 hp at 9,300 rpmPower

approx. 79 Nm at 7,850 rpmTorque

approx. 215 kg wetWeight

19 litresTank

21″ front / 17″ rear, spokedWheels

switchable (XC)ABS

2012Year

Manufacturer figures, rounded · model year 2012.

Triumph Tiger 800 XC from 2012, fully loaded with travel luggage at the harbour

Journals from the saddle

Stage by stage to the north

Germany → DenmarkThe departure: Meyer shipyard, Fehmarn and the first night in the tent.Read report →Sweden → NorwayEndless forests, red wooden houses and the first fjords.Read report →Norway – Part 1Waterfalls, switchbacks and the midnight sun heading north.Read report →Norway – Part 4Rugged coasts, Lofoten vibes and nights by the sea.Read report →Finland → EstoniaBy ferry across the Baltic Sea into the Baltics.Read report →LithuaniaThe final stretch before the long way back home.Read report →

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„The core of the human spirit comes from new experiences.”

Cedric Hildebrandt

Motorcycle in front of a Norwegian fjord landscape on the way to the North Cape

Photo & Film

Between fjords and the midnight sun

The camera is always with me. What drives me is not the kilometres but the moments: the light over a Norwegian fjord, a coffee in the rain, people you only meet because you travel slowly. As a photographer and filmmaker I try to capture exactly this feeling of travel.

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Next chapter

2023: Further east – all the way to Georgia.

I will be adding that stage here soon.

Let’s go

Ready for the journey?

Grab a coffee, lean back and come along for the road north.

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