Finally, after months of reading and planning, and planning and reading we've done it.
Since June last year I have been scouring charity shops and e-Bay for travel books and maps. I've read amazing travel blog after amazing travel blog and picked up so many tips and its finally paid off. We have agreed on a route. In order to see as much of Europe as possible with the most flexibility we have decided on a route that means we can stay in every place for a week or a day. The idea is to visit all of the places we have ever wanted to go and spend lots of time off of the beaten track learning about local cultures and hopefully stumbling across lots of hidden little gems.
We used routebuilder.org to map the route (which I'll include within the 'Route' tab soon) and will be driving around 10,000 miles over 9 months, stopping at approximately 150 destinations over 20 countries. These will include, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium.
Now to find a larger, more practical camper van. Although the VW T4 we have is lovely, perfect for weekends away in the UK its not quite right for 9 months on the road with limited storage and..........no toilet. We have been looking at the Tolbolt Express, fingers crossed we find something suitable soon.
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