That was and is the party line and I'm sticking to it.
Selfishly I'm not doing this trip for charity or out of a percieved obligation to a dying friend ala Harold Fry or to break records or to proove anything, except perhaps to myself.
If I stop enjoying it, I'll stop. If its too hard, I'll push the bike up the hill. Too boring? I'll get a train to somewhere more to my interest.
And with those disclaimers out the way, here's the route I've been planning.
The map below ids a very rough, pretty inaccurate over view of my "route" dran in paint.
It doesn't even show my planned vsist to Rome
