The Route...

The route that we came up with was just thrown together as we didn't have any specific plans to visit any of the cities that we are en route to, with the exception of Prague. With that, we had a blank canvas of the whole of Western Europe that is reachable in a two and a half week space in a car, logic makes the route a circle so we aren't having to dump the car or have too long a boat ride back to England.

The begining of the route (with the exceptions of Cleckheaton and Widnes) is London, for The O2 Premiere. We will be driving to London on Saturday 23rd June for a night in "The O2" (Millenium Dome) courtesy of O2, seeing Tom Jones, The Kaiser Chiefs and Basement Jaxx. The next day, Sunday, we picked the cheapest ferry crossing to get to the continent, which was Dover to Calais - leaving at 1100hrs.

The task was then to think of an interesting way to get to Prague (and back again!), seeing as many sites as possible... So here we have it...

• London, England


• Paris, France


• Strasbourg, France


• Bern, Switzerland


• Milan, Italy


• Salzburg, Austria


• Prague, Czech Republic


• Berlin, Germany


• Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The rough planning around the route has given us on the whole a days driving, sleep over, day in a city, sleep over, leave for the next place. We haven't booked any campsites, hotels, hostels, anything at all en route, so everything will be off the cuff. The only thing we have booked is the ferry back to England, leaving the Hook of Holland at 1445 on 11/07/07, and arriving at Harwich at 2015 on 11/07/07 - leaving a final four hour journey back to Cleckheaton.