Europe

I have omitted to convey I fairly major detail...

I am about to go to Europe for 8 weeks. I am leaving on 21 September and will not be back home until 16 November. Although, this is not important in itself, it means that although the walk is just under 12 weeks away, I effectively only have 3 weeks left to plan and organise the walk.

The timing of the trip to Europe was a bit out of our control in that I want to go visit my sister who is living in France at the moment and will not be there anymore next year. Also, there were considerations about work which made it a suitable time to go to Europe.

Some may think that it is a bit stupid to be out of the country before such a major walk as the AAWT but there is some method to the madness. I have decided to use the trip as part of the preparation for the walk itself. In particular, I plan to do lots and lots of walking. I will also be taking my backpack and will be carrying all my gear on may back. This should give me some reasonable training for preparation for the walk. The major weakness is that I may not be walking up hills but I will have to find some somewhere.

In any case, I am effectively in the last three weeks of planning and preparing for the walk and as such I have lots of work to do!