It’s almost Europe time. 🙂
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’m excited.
Hang on a second, I should probably preface this. For those of you not aware, in a matter of days myself and N.D will be travelling to Europe for the next four months.
Common questions you might be pondering…
- WHO? Assuming you already know who I am (if not then “Hi my name is Alex and please check out the rest of my blog”) then you must be wondering who N.D is. He is the same man who joined my Te Araroa adventure and trotted half the length of the country earlier this year, same man who has been traipsing around New Zealand with me working for the past few months and now my future Europa galavanting partner. That or he’s a stalker whose not to bad to look at, pretty funny and enjoys eating fries and drinking beer with me. I don’t mind either. 😉
- WHEN? Well as I said before we leave in a couple of days and will be travelling for just over four months.
- WHY? While I would love to say this has been a trip with months of planning and years of longing, but it really stemmed from just two things. One: I finished Te Araroa and wanted to keep exploring. Two: New Zealand opened up meaning that while yes we could leave the country we could also (fairly) easily get back home! So why not go to Europe. 😛
- WHAT? At this stage the plan is to travel to the UK and visit family, fly over to Budapest for the week long Sziget Music Festival, then who knows! We each have places, activities and exciting things we want to see, do and experience while in Europe. While initially when you tell someone that you are travelling for four months it seems like a long period of time, but actually when you consider visiting an entire continent it’s not. So we are going to focus on going to certain places and ‘doing them well’ as opposed too hopping everywhere quickly.
- Given we are hiking (I will probably still call it trotting), sailing, bridge sight-seeing, surfing, beer drinking and fries consuming enthusiasts you can expect places with these at their forefront to be visited over others.
- HOW? We haven’t finalised exactly how we will be getting around, we are more ‘wing-it’ kind of travellers. But I can assume from previous travels abroad that budget airlines, overnight buses and underground tube systems will be in play as well as more scenic train journeys, bike rides, ferry crossings and hopefully a sail or two.
So if this sounds like something you would find interesting or entertaining to read along with then settle in for four months of Europa blog content. 🙂
Hope you (mainly we) enjoy!
TTFN… next stop London.
Also in case you missed the Europa blog contents page – these photos are from my last trip to England, Wales and France in 2014 with my adorable parents… you never quite know what face they will make for a picture 😛
GC Chronicles 