Hi, welcome to our blog.
Later in the year we will be jumping on a train in Stockport and hopefully will keep on going until we reach Ho Chi Minh City three months later. Ideally, the whole trip to this point will be done without leaving the ground (or sea), taking in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia, China and Vietnam.
This blog will be a record of our journey and something to look back on when we're old and grey.
We'll be trying to find enough internet cafes to keep it up to date as we make our way East. I just wish we'd done one of these 9 years ago when we travelled round Australia for a year.
Its been hell waiting to be able to book the UK/Europe tickets (most of which couldn't be done more than three months in advance). We got our Eurotunnel tickets through a couple of weeks ago. That first step really felt fantastic.
And tonight I've just put in the request for the trans-siberian train tickets to RealRussia, so now it feels like we're really on the way to making the trip a reality.
I'll leave it at that for now. Lots more decisions to be made between now and September.
See you soon.
Nick & Jo
