So when you and your other half decide to move to New Zealand, what do you do?
1.Open laptop
2.Look up flights
3.Book two seats on a comfy Emirates/Quantas plane
4.Pack two large cases and off you go!
It seems that we don’t do normal! Instead of the above, Graham and I have decided to hop on a train in London and travel mainly by land to New Zealand.The real journey starts in Newcastle, where all our travel planning happened on the floor of the living room! On our journey we’ll be taking in stops in Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland until we hit Russia. Then we hop on the Trans Siberian railway and over the course of a month we’ll see 10 stops in Russia, with our final stop being Vladivostock on the eastern coast. Then a quick flight to South Korea followed by a ferry to Japan! From there, our plan is to see Hong Kong to visit a friend who has just moved there. Then hopefully explore some of South East Asia until we fly to New Zealand and see what that has in store for us.
Oh, and no suitcases with worldly belongings……just the one backpack with everything you might need for Scandinavia, Siberia and South East Asia. Packing Gods, I need your help! The first thing we packed were running trainers….hence the name ‘Travel In Trainers’. A quick 5k run on a morning in a new city is a nice way to discover places (breakfast/coffee spots) that you might not normally see!
We will do our best to update our blog as we go, so watch this space. I am off to London from Cork tomorrow morning and then the real countdown to the big adventure starts!
-F xx
Travel in Trainers 