Europe

Do you think we can see all of Europe in 60 days? Neither do we. To speed things along, we will travel a bit differently. Instead of trains and buses, we will rent a car. That saves the time of making train reservations, and isn't too much more expensive than the train Pass. It also lets us camp more, so we are hoping that all-in-all it is about the same cost as the train, with more flexibility.

We started in Amsterdam on May 28, and planned to leave London on July 31. However, for a bunch of reasons we stayed in London longer than planned. Gulf Air no longer flew the flight that we had confirmed tickets for, and had re-scheduled us. This worked out well, since the visa for India was not yet completed and needed a few more days anyway. We also had not planned out the next journeys (Africa and India), so wanted some time to get the travel books, pour over the websites, and make reservations. So we decided to stay in London another ten days. Then, we found out that Arlo and Kim's family were going to be in Sweden a week later, so we extended again, and joined them in Sweden.

So 60 days became 92! It is nice not having many cares in the world, and just rescheduling to fit our moods...

Read the blog entries to learn more. Roughly, we divided our time into two-week blocks in each of France (and Spain), Italy (and Switzerland), and Germany (and Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Czech Republic) and then a month in the UK (and Ireland), and a week in Sweden.