Soldato
I thought I'd put up a thread about my trip planned for October this year. I do have several road trips planned, this is probably the longest for this year but next year has some absolutely mental ones.
My ethos is that life is all about the journey and experiencing things along the way. Meeting people and generally just making memories and while I'm probably getting the boot from work, I figured I should probably just spend the time doing just what I wanted to and visiting the arctic circle was up on my list, so I thought, let's make it a trip.
The trip will be done over 10 days. It's a tight schedule and will be hard in some places, but should hopefully work out.
The aim is to do the first stint in 3 days. Which is a mission and a half. Stopping in Copenhagen, Stockholm and then the Arctic circle. It's a couple of 1000km days which will be long but if we take an extra day, I'm sure it'll be ok.
The way back will be more chilled but takes us via Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas, Warsaw, Prague and back home.
I'm trying to line up people to meet in each city as well, could be people I've chatted to once, could be complete strangers! It's all part of the fun.
I'm going with my 19yr old son and at the moment trying to fix a lot of the things that a 20yr old Volvo obviously has wrong with it.
We will aim to, in each spot, try the local drink, eat the local food, and meet a stranger / someone from the place - if you have suggestions that we should add to that, I'm all ears.
I'm going to take my drone and insta360 / go pro all that stuff to hopefully do my best in documenting the trip, as my first effort at not just doing one but making it compelling for others as well as ourselves.
I've never been to most of these cities, so open to people who have.
Also, I'm getting bull cars, a full livery, a roof rack and some light bars for the trip but anyone has any suggestions about what we should take / include I'm all ears.
We will also have things like hardcore sleeping bags, fold out chairs, inflatable mattresses, a portable hob / couple of cooking things just to make sure we don't get caught short.
I think it'll be a massive adventure!
Suggestions welcomed.
Next I'll tell you about driving back from Japan next year...
My ethos is that life is all about the journey and experiencing things along the way. Meeting people and generally just making memories and while I'm probably getting the boot from work, I figured I should probably just spend the time doing just what I wanted to and visiting the arctic circle was up on my list, so I thought, let's make it a trip.
The trip will be done over 10 days. It's a tight schedule and will be hard in some places, but should hopefully work out.
The aim is to do the first stint in 3 days. Which is a mission and a half. Stopping in Copenhagen, Stockholm and then the Arctic circle. It's a couple of 1000km days which will be long but if we take an extra day, I'm sure it'll be ok.
The way back will be more chilled but takes us via Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas, Warsaw, Prague and back home.
I'm trying to line up people to meet in each city as well, could be people I've chatted to once, could be complete strangers! It's all part of the fun.
I'm going with my 19yr old son and at the moment trying to fix a lot of the things that a 20yr old Volvo obviously has wrong with it.
We will aim to, in each spot, try the local drink, eat the local food, and meet a stranger / someone from the place - if you have suggestions that we should add to that, I'm all ears.
I'm going to take my drone and insta360 / go pro all that stuff to hopefully do my best in documenting the trip, as my first effort at not just doing one but making it compelling for others as well as ourselves.
I've never been to most of these cities, so open to people who have.
Also, I'm getting bull cars, a full livery, a roof rack and some light bars for the trip but anyone has any suggestions about what we should take / include I'm all ears.
We will also have things like hardcore sleeping bags, fold out chairs, inflatable mattresses, a portable hob / couple of cooking things just to make sure we don't get caught short.
I think it'll be a massive adventure!
Suggestions welcomed.
Next I'll tell you about driving back from Japan next year...