3 more sleeps

After playing around with the other blog site, it seems this one is going to offer a few more bells and whistles for our viewing audience...hence we have found a new home for our blog.

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To catch you up on our movements since the inaugural post ...... after spending our last few nights in San Francisco on Daniel and Yolande's sofa, made all the more comfortable by Kennedys Happy Hour(s) we found ourselves arriving into a glorious Irish summer (me arriving into Dublin airport smack bang in the middle of an evacuation due to someones forgotten backpack meant 4 hours of fun before catching my lift). Since then we have been camped out with Dee's family enjoying our last days of home cooking and a help yourself fridge before we set sail on Tuesday on our only booked transport - a 2.30pm flight to Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The plan is to spend some time bobbing around the islands as we make our way up the Croatian coastline, moving slowly and catching a bit of a holiday before we get into the more demanding legs of our journey.

We have about 5 weeks to cover the ground up to St Petersburg before our Russian visa kicks in. Our list of stops along the way looks something like : Slovenia, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga and Tallin.