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Our trip around the world

Coipiediperterra

321 days of travel by land and sea, without flying

"The world is a book and those who do not travel only know one page"

Saint Augustine

THE GREAT JOURNEY OF LIFE

Between 2012 and 2013 we flew around the world in 321 days. The idea came right after we decided to get married, talking about our honeymoon. At first we thought it was an unrealistic folly, then we realized that we couldn't help but think about the great trip we had in mind and so we sat down and started talking concretely about the idea that had tormented us for months. It was the travel virus that took over us, and we let it! The journey lasted 321 days and we chose to do it by land to savor every little movement between one place and another, to not miss anything of what there was between point A and point B, to rediscover the slowness that is often missing in everyday life... to free ourselves from the frenzy to which, nowadays, we are all slaves. When we left we had known each other for a little over two years and had never lived together, so it was all a discovery for us. It was our honeymoon, the first year of marriage, all on the road. It undoubtedly brought us together a lot and made us deeply understand many aspects of each other. We based our relationship on total mutual trust and this thing helps us a lot even now that we are back. It was a year of our lives, not just a vacation. The desire to challenge ourselves and confront the realities outside our home, abandoning comforts and conveniences to see how people really live and discover if we would be capable of it, this pushed us to take a journey along the globe.

TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221 TRAVEL DAYS: 321 - KM TRAVELLED: 89,354 - COUNTRIES TOUCHED: 24 - PHOTOS TAKEN: 48,221
OUR BOOK
COIPIEDIPERTERRA, AROUND THE WORLD BY LAND AND SEA
Elisa and Alessandro get married and as a wedding present they decide to put their daily routine on hold, to try to savor life slowly and realize a secret dream: to travel around the world without ever flying. He is a professional photographer, she is an interpreter by training but a corporate employee, the two drop everything and set off by train from Verona, backpacks on their shoulders, without knowing where this journey, on which they are launching themselves without a parachute, will take them. They travel slowly, using trains, buses, ships and adapting to the most uncomfortable and unusual situations. In their first year of marriage, they walk the world hand in hand and rediscover a whole new passion for life, learning to see things and people in a new light. It's a love story, an adventure lived by two. AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN ONLY

The book Coipiediperterra

Interview of December 30, 2015

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The book Coipiediperterra
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We were right there, in the southernmost point reachable by land. That’s where the road ended, and beyond lay only the South Pole. We looked at each other. We smiled. Each of us knew what the other was thinking. But there were no words in that moment of happiness. There was only a deep sense of fulfillment for having reached the first major milestone of the journey. One hundred and fifty days on the road to get to the end of the world and feel a single, undescribable moment of joy...
I numeri del viaggio coipiediperterra

The numbers of our journey

What was in our backpacks when we left home?

When we decided to leave, I had no idea how to pack for such a long journey. Ale suggested I bring only what I’d need for a week, since we’d be washing everything regularly anyway. And he was so right! […] If I were leaving today, I’d take even less, because around the world you can find anything we have in Italy.
LIBRO COIPIEDIPERTERRA
The book Coipiediperterra
Regular price €18,00
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"The Adventure of the World"

Interview September 2, 2014

A few words of encouragement along the journey

The support messages we received

As we traveled, so many people (known and unknown) thought of us, wrote to us and traveled with us. Here are just a few of the beautiful words we received.