We havent left home and......

......already we're eating two minute noodles from the Trangia.

The Europe Plan

The plan so far, and it will most certainly change and the big rule we have is: If we stop having fun, we come home.


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We fly into London, boogie around the UK then catch a ferry to France from there we sort head to Italy via whatever we want to see.  Then catch a ferry to Croatia then head to Moscow via Romania.

Having said that we really want to see Norway but there are no ferries that run from the UK directly to Norway so we'll work that out when we get to the UK.

Already there's a change of plan

Our initial plan was to ride from London, down to Somerset then up to Scotland and then catch a ferry to the Shetland Islands and then another ferry across to Norway.  Great plan except today we start looking at ferry times and the ferry from the Shetlands to Norway stopped running in 2008!!!  No problem, we dont have to go to the Shetlands we'll catch a ferry from the Scottish mainland...no no no, there are no ferries from the UK to Norway.

We could catch a plane from Scotland to Norway but it's such a bummer packing bikes that we'd rather not but we might be forced to.

This is a bit of a bummer because we really want to see Norway so we'll have a think about it and see.

and why wouldn't we want to cycle here???

Reducing our life to eight panniers

If nothing else this little adventure is forcing us to evaluate the importance of 'stuff'.  Sandy and I didn't think we had collected that much in our time in Darwin but we are still putting a lot of things we haven't touched for ages on to the 'lawn sale' pile.