Welcome to the fifth part of my series #homesontheroad about people living in freedom on the road in mobile homes!
Today we meet
Meri and Daniel
At Barragem Santa Clara, Portugal
I first met Meri on the Hippe Market in Barão do San João (which I am planning to write a post about!) where she bought some of my stickers and then I met both Meri and Daniel exactly on Daniel's 31st birthday at Barragem Santa Clara!
Daniel is from Germany and Meri is 37 and from Finland.
This is a real creative nomadic couple! They have been together for 6 years and 5 of them they have spend together in their little blue mobile home!
Their home is a sweet blue Mercedes that was already converted to a home when they got it, but they made a few changes, like taking out the toilet for more starage and living space.
It's a really cosy space full of coloful pictures and a psychedelic painting over the bed!
Meri is a graphic designer and works part time while traveling - she usually struggles with bad internet connections, so she is not always able to work on the road and sometimes goes back to a more stable place to work.
Or she will just use her spare time to work on other creative projects, like here she is working on a wooden spoon :)
Daniel is also a real craftsman and makes really beautiful rings of old coins!
He makes them by creating a hole in the middle and bend the sides over to form a ring - all by hand with manual tools!
He usually finds old silver coins to create these very special rings. Here's one from 1906!
But making amazing one of a kind hand work, doesnt always make enough money in this world, and sometimes also Daniel goes back to Germany to paint houses!
All in all Meri and Daniel are happy with their nomadic existence and have no plans of settling down. Life on the road is easy and free and a small home is more than enough when you have the world as your garden and can move where the sun is!
I really enjoyed getting to know this couple a bit and would be happy to meet them again somewhere! Thank you for sharing a bit of your lives!
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