“Today we finally can go home.” So read a message that Greek Reporter received recently from Ilse and Nikola Stadler, a mother and daughter traveling duo from Germany. The two had quite a tale to tell after being stranded in Greece for four months during the worst days of the pandemic.
“My mother has had a camper van since the days when she was a student, Nikola explained, “so I kind of grew up with this kind of travel, and my mother has been “doing the vanlife” for almost 40 years. So we are well-experienced I would say.”
That long experience came in handy recently when the mother and daughter globe-trotting duo experienced roadblock after roadblock in their quest to travel to Greece and beyond this past Spring.
“The funny part is that my mother already went with her mother (my grandmother) to Greece with a camper van around 30 years ago!” Nikola adds laughingly.
With her mother, Ilse Stadler, 67, already retired, her daughter, 30, decided in early 2020 to quit her job as a city planner to go on their long-awaited trip – which initially was actually supposed to be two separate activities.
