Strap yerself in - it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

'Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy".

Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)

Thought I'd include the above for two reasons:

1. We met today in the battle cruiser and decided to spend more time in Italy (more on that later) and..
2. What the fooks up with that name? Burney fanny! lol. Think she's hot? lol. She really wants to stop going for a piss after rubbing ralgex into her leg!

Anyhow - enough of this jiggery pokery!

So we met. We drank beer. We perused the menu (for food and for European destinations)...and the results of the United Kingdom jury were as follows:

France - nil point (sorry, but really wanted to give them nowt!)

Ok, here goes:

Sat 20th (Sept) Blackpool - Paris
Sun 21st Paris
Mon 22nd Rome
Tues 23rd Rome
Wed 24th Venice
Thur 25th Salzburg
Fri 26th Munich
Sat 27th Munich
Sun 28th Prague
Mon 29th Prague
Tues 30th Prague
Wed 1st (Oct) Berlin
Thur 2nd Berlin
Fri 3rd Amsterdam
Sat 4th Amsterdam
Sun 5th Amsterdam - Blackpool

We decided to drop Warsaw which allowed us to take in Venice and spend an extra day in Prague. There's a lot of travel it's true but what a trip! There re a few other bits and bobs I'm missing there - Verona and Zel Am See - but it's correct in essence!

15 nights - 8 in Y Hostels, 6 on overnight trains (Couchettes or however you spell it) and 1 in a frigin tent in Munich - it's the beer fest you understand so accomm at a premium!

More later.....now, where the fook is that passport...ooops

It's coming to a European Country near you soon

It's a miserable Sunday in Blackpool. The rain's pouring and it's as dull as f**k! 3 Weeks to the off and I'm heading to the pub shortly (where else really!?) to plan the itinerary for the upcoming European inter-railing experience. I've been looking to do this for years and whilst 16 days is someway short of what I'd ideally like, once you reach my time of life (36 and all kiddied up!), 16 days is like manner from heaven.
Money is in the bank, blog created, final touches to planning about to be undertaken. Ahhh, bliss, it REALLY doesn't get much better than this.
I'm pondering the solitude of the train journeys, the people I'll meet, the mad situations I know I'll get into and the time I'll have to contemplate my life and the future. I know the trip will change me - these experiences I've found always do. So as much as I'm looking forward to the trip, it's also with some trepidation that I embark on a new chapter of my life. Some doors you look at and wonder, some you take a peak into and turn back. And some you throw yourself through and take the consequences. No trail of breadcrumbs for me with this one......