It's a strange feeling the day before a tour I'm learning, not lessened in the least from being a veteran of the Sahara tour, although I must admit that we've had quite a few distractions with selling my car and moving house all at the same time. Life is certainly not mundane, it has to be admitted.Sat nav is now loaded with the checkpoints for Europe, not really needed since it's a simple route, but I get to listen to music on it too, so worth it's weight in gold. Old school paper maps for Iceland though, complete with custom scribbles of places we want to visit - waterproof too, which might be handy while we look over the route ahead from the geothermal blue lagoon.
Weather looks like it may well spice things up on the England leg of the journey, with heavy rain and gusting winds tentatively forecast (it seems to be changing all the time). Should be an amusing welcome back to camping for Rob who hasn't slept under canvas since the scouts, MANY years ago! ;o)
Had a few people asking for my sponsorship form for this tour, which was a little surprising. I'm proud of the money we raised for the MS Society last time around, but there was definitely a portion of people asking "why raise money while you ride around on holiday"? Which - since this holiday should be more leisurely than the Sahara tour, convinced us not to raise money this time.
Right.. I'm off to sort out the rest of the things on my to-do list and then go for one last English pint down the local...
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