Every journey starts with a single step!

We are just not sure where exactly that first step is going to take place. The orginal idea was to walk from birth place to birth place - London to Schweinfurt. That would mean starting in Cable Street in East London and walking nearly two days out of London which is not the most attractive thought. Where we live here in Kent, we are just a hop and a skip away from the North Downs Way which leads us all the way to Dover. Lovely country side from the word go.


I also now have a rough idea of our route when we are on 'Le Continent'

5 A-Z "Heuvels en rivieren"
De Panne - Menen - Ronse - Ronse - Geraardsbergen – Aalst

128-O Vlaanderenroute / Oost
Aalst - Leuven - Zoutleeuw - Tongeren - Maastricht - Aachen (293km)

And last but not least we will join the E8 Long distance path
Aachen – Bonn – Koblenz – Oberwesel – Donnersberg – Worms (option: Speyer – Heidelberg) – Wertheim – Tauberbischofsheim

towards the end of this part of the route we will drop off the E8 and are on the home straight.

I am refusing to think of the pain that we will have to put ourselves through to walk 900 km in two months. I am just thinking about how we will feel when we have achieved it.