Daren Grover & Abbie Reynolds
Dal and Ab
Daren Grover & Abbie Reynolds
We're moving to NZ - Abbie going home and Daren bumming along for the ride. No 24 hour flight for us - we're trying to keep our green credentials by going back overland - yep, Europe and Asia by ferry, train, bus but not plane! The journey kicks off on 7 June.
Our current itinerary (and this will change as we discover we can't stick to our budget) looks something like this:
Scotland, Newcastle, ferry to Amsterdam, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany...
AND then the exciting bit:
St Petersberg, Moscow and then the great Trans Siberian Rail journey first to Irkutsk and then Ulan Bator in Mongolia, terminating in Beijing...
China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. At this point we may find we are forced to fly from Bali to Darwin in Australia. In Aus we hope to take the Ghan, a train route from Darwin, through Alice Springs and on to Adelaide. From there we'll train across to Sydney and then make our way to Auckland. It's possible we'll have to take to the air for this leg as well, but we'll be doing what we can to avoid that...
Current estimates (based on budget, tolerance for staying in hostels, number of nights we can blag on friend's floors) suggest that this will take us anything from four to six months.
So, if you fancy coming along for ride, remotely at least, check out our blog. Assuming we can make the technology work, you'll be able to see photos of our adventures too. See such life enhancing moments as Daren in his new sleeping sack. Daren dealing with train toilets. Daren learning to speak other languages...
Enjoy!