Monday, October 02, 2006
The trip – a rough plan
Having looked at all the various routes and options for getting to the continent we’ve decided to get a ferry direct to Spain from Portsmouth despite having the Poole-Cherbourg link only just down the road. The reason for this is two-fold, one: it saves the long drive down through France chasing the sun for our November departure and secondly: it means we’ll only travel through France twice on our round-Europe tour. The downside of course is that we may have 36 hours of hell on the winter seas with 3 young (possibly sea-sick) children.
The rough plan so far is:
1. Ferry to Spain, stay a week at the first campsite to acclimatise and relax into our new way of life.
2. Drive along the bottom of Spain to Gibraltar staying at campsites along the way, 1 day driving to every 2-3 days camping.
3. Visit Gibraltar and possibly nip across to Morocco for a day-trip.
4. Camp in southern, middle then northern Portugal.
5. Drive along the top of Spain or through it camping as we go and cross into Andorra.
6. From Andorra camp along the south coast of France to northern Italy.
7. Work our way down through Italy eventually crossing into Sicily.
8. Back to Italy and ferry across to Greece.
9. Through Greece and get a ferry to Cyprus, staying with Ali’s mum for a while.
10. Back to Greece then direct to Croatia via ferry or back up through Italy on the opposite coast then ferry to Croatia.
11. Slovenia.
12. Hungary, Romania.
13. Slovakia.
14. Poland.
15. Lithuania.
16. Latvia.
17. Estonia.
18. Finland.
19. Norway.
20. Sweden.
21. Denmark.
22. Germany.
23. Czech Republic.
24. Austria.
25. Switzerland.
26. France.
27. Luxembourg.
28. Belgium.
29. Holland.
30. Back to blighty!
