The planning begins!

So I say the planning starts. It started weeks ago. I've started properly costing the trip out and working out where I actually want to go. So far I've got a rough route through Europe and across Asia down to Australia where I sort of get stuck.

Must sort that out.

Basically, I want to go to these places... (once I get past Singapore, it gets kind of sketchy)

London to Brussels on the EuroStar. Antwarp, Bruges. Then Paris. Train to Turin. Milan. Venice. Pisa. Rome. Naples. Greece. Fly to Israel, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Fly to Istanbul. Through Bulgaria etc, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland. Belarus. Moscow.

Train to Beijing

Through China, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia. Thailand. Malaysia. Australia. NZ. Peru. Brazil,Venezuela. Florida... Drive east to west then west to east across the US.

New York, then home.

So that's the plan. No doubt it'll change.

If anyone has any tips or places they think I should visit, please PLEASE comment and let me know...

So. Until next time.... Ta-Ta

The first of many...

So what does one write in their first post on their first blog. Probably something a little bit more inspiring that this... will try harder in future.

I'm off travelling next summer, (for a year or so) so I've had the urge to start a blog and post stuff now and again so my family (mainly Mother) doesn't freak out when they don't hear from me for weeks at a time.

Just a few other housekeeping items while i'm here. I do this a lot ".....". Like all the time. It's one of my (many) faults.

Someone suggested I write the reasons why i'm off travelling in the first place. Was is my desire to meet new people, see new places and explore new cultures? Well not entirely. Yes is that answer I suppose, all of those things, but also, a desire to get away. To start again. Well no, not to start again, but to move on. That is, to say, to move on from things that I'm not able to move on from while i'm still here.

It's complicated to say the least. And while I say i'm not running from things, from people, from situations, the only way to move on, to be the "bigger" person, is to remove myself completely.

Some people would read that and see something sad, and see that i'm leaving out of bitterness. I'm not. What happened, happened. And i'm a better person for it.

Needless to say, that'll be the only time I ever mention, well, that....

There I did it, did you see it?! The "....". I can't help it....

MORE TO THE POINT, I DO ACTUALLY WANT TO TRAVEL.

Right, so. Nine and a half months before I leave, that's my first post done. Is it a post or a blog. A blog within a blog. I don't know. Anyway...

For now

Loves x