About

By Gemma Tedaldi | Published: 30th August 2017 | Updated: 23rd October 2024

This blog all started thanks to my dear friend and fellow travel companion Meryl. We took to the world together for a few months fully absorbing ourselves into the culture, landscape and life of travelling. Since then I have travelled again and again, even if only for a few days, to rekindle my love for new and exciting adventures – Gemma

Road trips have always been something of an adventure for us.

Living in the UK and Switzerland, and having Europe on the doorstep, has been one of the most inspiring things behind our little travel blog. The opportunity to easily drive from country to country, discovering each destination to the fullest, and then hopping across another border for the night is something you won’t find anywhere else in the world. That and the knowledge that each country throughout Europe is so individual and unique, that you could never get tired of exploring this region.

We enjoy it even more so now that we have designed and converted our own campervan, which is the perfect thing for road trips across the UK and Europe.

With numerous UK and Europe road trips already under our belt and quite a few more in the pipeline, The Travelling Tedaldi is the perfect place to be if you are after some inspiration for your first road trip, your 10th road trip, or even your 100th road trip. Be it through one country or across multiple, we have UK and Europe road trip itineraries and guides to help you out.

Meet The Travelling Tedaldi

Favourite country – Italy

Favourite place – North Devon

Landscape lover, post writer and photograph taker. Gemma started The Travelling Tedaldi to document her trips and keep in contact with friends and family whilst overseas. Her little project has since flourished into a fully-fledged travel blog, with a focus on exploring throughout the UK and Europe in their homemade van.

Favourite country – Iceland

Favourite place – Cómpeta

High flyer, website aficionado and photograph taker. Coffee enthusiast Matt not only travels the globe with Gemma, documenting each trip for the world to see but he is also a paramotor-trained pilot and paraglider, which means he gets some of the best views going!

Where We Have Lived / Travelled

Europe

📍 Austria – Hallstatt, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna & The Wachau Valley

📍 Belgium – Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen & Brussels

📍 Channel Islands – Jersey

* We actually got married on the island of Jersey!

📍 Croatia – Rovinj

📍 Czech Republic – Prague

📍 Denmark – Copenhagen

📍 France – The Alsace, Brittany, Fontainebleau, Paris & Troyes

📍 Germany – The Black Forest & Füssen

📍 Greece – Santorini

📍 Hungary – Sopron

📍 Iceland – Arnarstapi, Dalvík, Djúpivogur, Grundarfjörður, Hvammstangi, Jökulsárlón, Mýtavn, Ólafsvík, Reyðarfjörður, Reykjavík, Reynisfjara ? Dyrhólaey, Seyðisfjörður, Siglufjörður & Vík

*Our first ‘real job’ for the The Travelling Tedaldi was for a company in Iceland

📍 Ireland – Dublin

📍 Italy – Amalfi Coast, Bergamo, Bologna, Cesenatico, Cinque Terre, Florence, Lucca, Milan, Naples, Pisa, Riccione, Rimini, Rome, Varenna (Lake Como), Venice & Verona

📍 Liechtenstein

📍 Malta – Comino, Gozo, Marsaxlokk & Valletta

📍 The Netherlands – Amsterdam

📍 Portugal – Lisbon & Madeira

📍 San Marino

📍 Slovakia – Bratislava

📍 Slovenia – Lake Bled, Lake Bohinj, Ljubljana, Maribor & Piran

📍 Spain – Gran Canaria, Lanzarote & Seville

📍 Switzerland – Basel, Bern, Zurich, Thun, Zug, Lucerne – Mount Rigi / Pilatus / Bürgenstock, Interlaken – Harder Kulm / Schynige Platte, Lauterbrunnen – Wengen / Mürren / Kleine Scheidegg / Männlichen, Grindelwald – Grindelwald First / Bachalpsee, Spiez – Niederhorn, Murten, Neuchâtel, Montreux, UNESCO Lavaux Vineyards, Lausanne, St Moritz & Lugano

*Our new home as of 2022

📍 United Kingdom

England – Bristol, Cornwall, North Devon, East Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, Exmoor National Park, The Lake District National Park, North York Moors National Park, Peak District National Park & The Forest of Dean & Wye Valley

*Our home country until a move to Switzerland

Scotland – Edinburgh

Wales – Portmeirion, The Gower, Tenby, The Elan Valley, West Wales, Snowdonia National Park & Brecon Beacons National Park

Asia

📍 Bali

📍 Borneo – Kota Kinabalu

📍 China – Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’an, Xiamen, Wuyishan, Suzhou & The Great Wall of China

* One of the first places Gemma travelled for longer than a week – and the first stop on a 3-month adventure that sparked the travel blog beginning

📍 Hong Kong

📍 Japan – Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Hakone, Onomichi, Miyajima & Hiroshima

📍 Singapore

Oceania

📍 Australia – East Coast including Sydney, Brisbane, Frazer Island, The Whitsundays, Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef

📍 Fiji – Viti Levu & Bounty Island

📍 New Zealand – North Island & South Island

* Gemma spent a month travelling the North and South Islands of New Zealand in a campervan

North America

📍 USA – West Coast road trip, Arizona, California, Nevada, New York, Utah

Where We Are Going Next

Meeting so many wonderful and friendly people willing to share this beautiful world with us throughout our travels has only made us want to explore even more, so we have an unimaginable, (if not slightly ridiculous), list of places to visit in the future. So keep an eye out for The Travelling Tedaldi around the globe in the years to come!

The next few countries we are hoping to visit over the next couple of years or so include;

Norway – Sweden – Finland – Singapore – Canada – South Korea – Azerbaijan – Uzbekistan

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Have a question about where we have been / where we will be going? Or would you like a specific blog post about something / somewhere we have visited? Send us a message and we will give you all we’ve got! In the meantime keep an eye on the blog for more updates and blog posts.

Gemma & Matt

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