Melksham 2 Marrakesh

Things are also progressing with the plans for our trek to Morocco next year too. Both of us have wrangled 5 weeks off work as paid holiday for around this time next year and we'll soon be booking ferries and will have passed the point of no return!

We've also decided to try and raise some money while we're at it. I figure that even if we raise £50 it'll be worth it anyway. We chose the MS Society..

.. because my mum was diagnosed with it a couple of year ago and it seems that some treatments may soon have profound effects in countering this debilitating disease.

Our fund-raising page is still a work in progress, but is here ..

http://beatms.mssociety.org.uk/netcommunity/Melksham2Marrakesh

Map of our route. We're hoping to clip Belgium on the way into France, then skirt the Alps down the East side of France. Cross the Pyrenees through Andorra, down Eastern and Southern Spain, cross through Gibraltar to Morocco. Then on the way back up, cross into Portugal and Western Spain before getting a nice relaxing (and well deserved) ferry back from Santander in the North of Spain.

That's a round trip of over 5000 miles!?! It'll be quite an adventure for two rookies, but nothing like diving it at the deep end, and all that..

Priorities will be safety, safety, safety and staying fit and healthy I think. Hopefully the rest will all fall into place..