Well the practice pack is over and achieved the less than 20k load limit, so on Monday 16th September it’s off on the silver chicken to Seoul for a stopover and then onto Rome as the staging point for our 7 week odyssey.

From Rome it’s some acclimatising in Trieste and several days later it’s down to Slovenia to walk BELOW the Julian Alps ( a famous theatre for WW 1) finishing in Lake Bled.

With either tired or seasoned legs we will then head south – not walking- to Novigrad to start the walk across the Istrian Peninsula at the top of Croatia.

No rest for the wicked we will them embark on an island hopping exercise down the coast of Croatia ending up in Dubrovnik.

Post that it’s off to Italy to walk the coastal route of Puglia at the bottom of Italy, as well as spend some time in Matera and then Sorrento to have what my kids might term ‘a real holiday’.

All that should take us to the end of October and then home.