The protagonists
I conducted interviews with a total of thirteen participants on the tour. There are young and older people, Germans, Australians, one participant from Austria and one from Serbia, men and women, who all have one thing in common: Their very own and individually very different ideas and attitudes towards TID, so that the diversity of the tour, the coexistence and togetherness of the most diverse people on this journey is told in a captivating and exciting way by the participants themselves.
Miriam Adler und Lukas Volkmann
Mönchengladbach
Germany
After completing their studies, Miriam and Lukas set off for the Black Sea in the 30-year-old folding boat »Undine« to explore the cultural diversity of Eastern Europe.
Thomas Anderl
Vienna
Austria
He knows the Danube from many summer trips with friends in rubber dinghies and kayaks. In 2013, he joined the TID to finally reach the sea.
Dieter Deininger
Heilbronn
Germany
After more than 40,000 kilometers on his bike, which took him all over Europe, he has now embarked on a long journey with TID to his grandparents‘ homeland.
Antonia Engel, Juliane Heinze, Jeroen Grewel, David Schneider und Dominik Skora
Bonn
Germany
The five high school graduates took advantage of the long summer after school and rowed in “Käptn Blaubär”, a five-seater, from Ingolstadt to the Black Sea.
Helen Jacobsohn und Vicki Matthews
Freshwater
Australia
Two competitive athletes who have been beating everyone to the punch, who have been coming back to Europe for years to take part in the TID, and who fulfilled their dream of riding the entire route together in 2013.
Wolfgang Kleylein †
Cologne
Germany
A philosopher and individual traveler, cyclist, hiker, mountaineer and canoeist, who has traveled all over Europe and halfway around the world in his kayak, joined the TID to experience this tour with like-minded people.