on the road since march 2025
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Welcome to our café and creative studio on wheels.
01Tour
The café on wheels, and how to bring your products alive
02Journal
Stories from the road
03Studio
Evelyne's wildlife art studio
04Shop
Prints, stickers and more
05Crew
The people behind
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Evelyne Buttet & Frank Zheng
Hej friend!
We're Evelyne and Frank, and we live a slow life in a fast house, a 1992 Volkswagen LT. It's a café on wheels that opens wherever we park, serving local and seasonal pastries and coffee to friends. Yes, we do everything a café does.
While we both love drawing lattes just as much, Evelyne illustrates and writes with a heart for wildlife and warm purpose. Frank crafts electronics, most passionately keeping our solar-powered café running and the fresh pastries coming.
Meet the whole crew
The Ground Squirrel Studio
Inspired by the wild
Between café stops and winding roads, Evelyne fills her sketchbooks with the animals we meet along the way. What begins as a little sketch finds a home at The Ground Squirrel Studio, where these encounters are turned into art, from posters and stickers to so much more.
10% of every purchase goes towards wildlife conservation.
Most mornings start like this.
From the journal
Lately, on the road
September 2026
Vanlife in Spain and Portugal: Our Favorite Spots, Where We Camped and What it Cost
Oranges by the roadside, surfers padding down cliffside stairs and hot springs in the middle of the forest. Spain and Portugal were the first big chapter for our freshly built camper Humbär. Here are our favorite spots, where we parked for the night, and exactly what a month of vanlife on the Iberian Peninsula set us back.
September 2026
Spending Winter in Greece: Our Vanlife Adventure, What It's Really Like, The Weather, Camping
From December to March we spent the winter in Greece with our off-grid camper Humbär, and it quickly became our favorite country for vanlife. How cold it really gets, how often our solar setup needed a plug, what the law says about wild camping, what surprised us about the costs, and the people we met along the way.
September 2026
Building a Camper Van Water System: Fresh Water, Filters and Waste Water
How the water system in our campervan works - fresh water tank, Alb Filter filtration, pressure pump and underfloor waste water tank. With a full parts list, filter service intervals and everything we have learned about drinking water on the road. Built into our VW LT35, but it fits any camper or motorhome.
Say hello
Come find us
We're usually somewhere with bad reception and good light. Write us a line, follow the road on Instagram, or invite Humbär to your event. We'd love that.