A European Pub Crawl
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These pages are about Joy and Dave's exciting trip starting in the UK in February 2011 and then on to Europe. We'll be away almost 2 years. We plan to see some 40 countries; some will be reasonably long stays so some will be very brief visits.
We're calling it our Pub Crawl but we will try to get to cafes, restaurants etc. Really our holiday is about seeing as many of those "must see" sights that we've read and heard about. I love English pubs, I like some Castles, Museums, but not art galleries so much; Joy likes some similar things but especially animal parks and zoos. We want to see some of those exotic sounding places that we have all seen in the movies; Casablanca, Marrakech, Amsterdam, Munich, Athens, Madrid, and of course "Paree" just to name a few. Naturally I will want to see many of the Telephony Museums in the UK and Europe.
We will try to see some of the confronting
sights from World conflicts such as Anzac Cove Gallipoli, Fromelle, Auschwitz,
Belsen and many
others.
We hope to be able to have a pretty laid back holiday, hence the use of a motor home, to ;
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lessen packing and unpacking. |
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give us the travel flexibility that will allow us to choose our route so that the "Weather suits our clothes" (Harry Nilsson - Midnight Cowboy) |
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give us plenty of space for nice local produce; wine/cheese. |
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provide a place for our bicycles, BBQ and a place where we can rest/have a coffee whenever we feel like it. |
We are sure that negotiating narrow roads and finding a park may be times when a motor home will be a frustration; But for us, we're confident the Pro's will far outweigh the Con's.
Our web will be our place for planning our holiday and when we start our trip, a place to store our experiences for family and close friends to track our progress.
On the Timetable and Photo Album pages, details will be updated as we tour the individual countries.
By clicking on the "Recent Updates" tab, readers can see details of changes to the web, with the top-most entry being the most recent.
The Motor home page has some of the Government agencies and support contacts that we used when we were planning our trip.
Our plans are flexible enough to make the best of weather conditions from North to South. A good guide to long range forecasts can be found at http://www.longrangeweather.com/weather-forecasts/European-City.aspx
We spent more time than we estimated and allowed for, back home in May to August 2011. That means we will miss the Scaninavian countries preferring to use our available time with a return to the UK to see Ireland and Scotland.
The red lines on this map now show what should be our approximate travel route from March 2012.
