2300 km, and another 2000 to go

Before I arrived, I was so consumed with the details of working out the who-where-when for this trip - meeting two different friends in two different countries - that I didn’t take the time to really look at a map and figure out distances.

So as usual, my plans have turned out to be exceptionally ambitious. An 11 hour flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt, followed by a 4 hour train ride to Munich, followed (two days later) by a 5 day, 2100 km road trip through Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the French Alps, Provence, and the Cote D’Azur (whew), before finally arriving at our villa in the Dordogne, just east of Bordeaux (which is on the Atlantic coast).

In a couple of days, I start working my way slowly back towards Munich, then fly to London.

If anyone ever says that Europe is small… don’t believe them.