My itinerary!

Sat July 21, 8am - Fly out of Sydney
Sun July 22, 6pm - Arrive at Rome Fiumicino airport

Mon July 23 - Civitanova

Mon July 30 - Athens for tour of the Greek Islands

Thu August 9 - Back in Civitanova

Sun August 12 - Bern, Switzerland
Wed August 15 - Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Sat August 18 - Munich, Germany
Tue August 21 - Bruxelles, Belgium
Wed August 22 - Bruges, Belgium
Fri August 24 - Amsterdam
Mon August 27 - Berlin
Thu August 30 - Prague
Sun September 2 - Cesky Krumlov
Tue September 4 - Vienna
Thu September 6 - Salzburg

Sat September 8 - Back in Civitanova

Tue September 11 - Rome (Xavier Rudd performs in Rome..!)

Sat September 28 - Mum & Dad arrive in Rome, start 2 weeks cycling holiday near Riccione
Tue October 9 - Dad flies out from Rome, Mum stays.
Sun October 14 - Morocco.
Wed October 24 - Paris

Sat October 27 - Rome

Sun December 2 - Fly back to Sydney

Crossing over to "the other side"...

Wow, for years I've been so scathing about the blog and chatroom culture, which is admittedly kind of unjustified, since some people who I would call very good friends are regular bloggers! But here I am, getting ready for travels, and realising that this is the only way I can realistically keep everyone up-to-date (everyone that wants to be kept up-to-date - I realise most people will just do what I do and glance at this once and never do it again!). But I can certainly see the merits in keeping in touch with close friends and family, so they don't get offended I'm not calling them enough ;) Hopefully they will leave me messages on this blog too so I don't feel too lonely!

So, progress at the moment is looking good. It'd want to, as I fly out in less than 7 weeks! July 21st is D-day, flights are booked and paid for in full, host family notified, greek islands tour booked... I may not have any insurance or a visa yet but I'm well on my way :)

Mum & Dad's flights are also booked which is possibly the most exciting aspect of the whole trip. I can' believe I get to show them my other little corner of the world!

I won't carry on because no-one even knows this blog exists yet, but I have posted two images from this week - one is the whale breach Bec & I ought to have seen on Thursday afternoon if the rough weather hadn't blown in. The other shows why we should be extremely glad that they did cancel all the tours!