High Level Route Plan
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
We re-visited the world map today to look at our route plan in more detail and have started to populate the site with an entry per country listed under each of the 4 continent categories.
Plan is as follows:
Europe 6 months April - October 2010 due to campsites across Europe being open during these months. We will start in UK, moving to Ireland and back again and including Scotland and Wales before making our way to the ferry at Norwich for Norway.
Plan hence, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and back into mainland Europe where we will make our way to France and Spain for the summer.
We then go onto Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in Africa before making our way back out again to Italy and other European countries of interest before making our way down to Turkey.
We would like to visit China but we are not sure it will suit our itinerary or budget - we’ll look into in more detail.
India therefore is on our plan, then moving onwards to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
We hope to ship our vehicle from Singapore while making our way on foot/air through Indonesia.
We will rejoin our vehicle at the tip of (north) Australia - possibly Darwin -around March 2011!! following a whole year on the road and continue to overland from here. From Australia we ship our vehicle finally back to the UK and dependant on budget, children, their schooling needs and how we are feeling, we hope to cover New Zealand and Fiji before returing to the UK ourselves.
18 months does not seem like long enough to do this trip properly and already we are struggling with reasonable timeframes and finance we can spend in each country before moving on.
The one thing we are desparately trying not to do is rush through the route at any stage but when looking at each country in more detail - the need to rationalise and start making decisions about what to include/exclude already seems to be factoring in some instances.
Visas, border controls, vehicle carnet, insurance and shipping costs need to be looked at in some detail.
