GoBeyond Stories
GoBeyond Stories

GoBeyond Stories

Stories from the world GoBeyond. Insights, personal experiences, weather forecasts, last-minute trip recommendations and much more.

Here’s how the first Balkan Rally went

Over 70 participants drove all the way to the Bay of Kotor during the four-day event, with winners in four categories chosen by the jury members and the participants.

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Introducing The Great Balkan Rally

A story to put your motorbike or car in: The Great Balkan Rally is about to start. Réka Vikárius, the editor of HYPEANDHYPER, talked to the founder János Benjámin Vértes and the race director Levente Trellay. Interview!

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Our best surf trip in Panama

In terms of surfing and natural environment, our trip to Panama has exceeded all our expectations. It took 20 years of surfing and many surf trips to have such a perfect interplay of lucky coincidences like it happened during this Panama trip - a real surfer’s dream come true.

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Azores, the Islands of Endless Adventures

I’m not sure about you, but I’ve always had the Azores on my bucketlist... a couple of smaller islands in the middle of the Atlantic, pretty far from everything with its unique microclimate and wildlife, promised to be a very exciting destination.

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Comparing our motorcycle tours

After two years of waiting, it seems like all three of our major motorcycle tours will start again in 2022. We will help you decide which tour should be your next unforgettable adventure!

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Our surfer home (office) in Ericeira

Winter does not work with me. I have known this for a long time and in the past years have always managed to escape from it for a few months to somewhere warmer. Back in last November when Go Beyond announced their month-long home office trip to Portugal I was already intrigued but my choice fell on Morocco in the end.

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Panama – “MUCHO MAS QUE UN CANAL”

Most people think about the Panama Canal when it comes to Panama. The marketers working on the country image must have considered this when they came up with the slogan MUCHO MAS QUE UN CANAL, i.e. MUCH MORE THAN ONE CHANNEL.

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Our first motorcycle tour in Tanzania

We were all longing for an adventure and been looking for a destination where we could leave the European winter behind and travel to summer. That’s how our decision fell upon traveling to Tanzania, East Africa’s biggest country, that has a thousand more faces than just the white sandy beaches of Zanzibar.

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„The community experience is a defining part of our trips”

Hidden surfer bay in the Azores, dinner in a volcanic crater or a night spent in the San Blas Islands, among Kuna Indians.  Réka Vikárius, the editor of HYPEANDHYPER, talked to the founders Fanni Pataricza and János Benjámin Vértes. Interview!

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“We don’t like simple trips”

We started organizing trips in 2011, but not as a main occupation at the time. We organized three trips a year (one surf, one ski and one summer tour). When Jano Vertes talks to Hedi Sebestyen (drivemagazine.eu), he has just returned home to Vienna from a home office surf camp in Portugal. Interview!

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The Second Wave

We rented an 8-bedroom house with a fireplace half an hour north of Lisbon in Ericeira, Europe’s only “surf reserve”. ”. This term was not invented by us, the shoreline in front of the house was classified as a World Surf Reserve due to the 8 world-famous waves breaking here.

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Motorbike ride through the Himalayas

There are places in the world that are best explored on a motorbike ... So is the most dangerous road in the world? Yes!

In the summer of 2009, I first visited Ladakh, India’s northernmost province, which is also called Little Tibet by many because of its vast mountains and undisturbed Buddhist culture.

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With a travel agency and a newborn during quarantine

Our personal report on the first quarantine months and our future plans.

2020 started exciting and encouraging. The most important novelty was that our little son, Jonas, was born at the end of January. Healthy, beautiful and smart the way every lucky parent sees their own child.

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Christmas on the Andaman Island

11 years ago, between graduating from university and two jobs, I had the opportunity to travel freely in Asia for a while without any time limit. Eventually, for almost a year, we gathered experiences in 10 different countries and looked for places we would find it harder to get to with less free time.

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