So how am I feeling now? Surprisingly calm and well organised as well as ridiculously excited and definitely ready for the off.
Most of my packing, un-packing and re-packing moments happened yesterday. Thank you to Teresa for some level headed, sensible packing tips - she is the queen of lightweight travel.
My only concern is I may go into complete meltdown when I try getting all the panniers on the bike tomorrow morning and realise how frighteningly heavy it all is, eek!
The next 2 days are simply travelling by train with my bike and multiple panniers (front and rear panniers, rack pack with tent, etc., and a handlebar bag) from Ilkley, Yorkshire to St Margrethen on the north-east side of Switzerland close to the Austrian border. Tomorrow, I head to London in the morning, meet my sister Janny there and we're then travelling together on the Eurostar to Paris where we meet up with her and Gus' friend, triathlete Chris for dinner. We're staying in Paris overnight. A pretty fab first day of travel in my book!
Thank you all so much for all your wonderful messages of support throughout these last few weeks. Some of you are really getting into the blog responses - awesome! Your messages are really keeping me going already (I've not even started yet!) and some of them are so funny so thank you for making me laugh as well! And thank you for messages coming from as far afield as New Zealand - thank you, Jane!
Have a great Summer everyone, the weather is meant to be changing for the better as the jetstream shifts so fingers crossed!
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