Crikey. Only fourteen days to go now. I'm trying to get things in a little bit of order, so I don't end up running around like an idiot two days before we go. I still will end up running around like an idiot, but I thought I'd make a list anyway.In seven days I leave my job, and as my job is running a pub (after a fashion) I also have to leave my home and move in with my parents (which, of course, they're thrilled about and always delighted to see...

I thought I'd better put down exactly what the plan is, so I can look back on how wrong it went in a few months time.On the 1st of June, we're going to jump on a bus that is conveniently going to take us all the way to Amsterdam. We'll spend nearly two nights there, and then get a night bus that'll get us into Copenhagen in the morning....A few days there, and it'll be time to get into Germany for the World Cup. We're going to follow the f...

After the World Cup, we're going to head east. The plan is to nip through Poland, and then spend a few days in Latvia Lithuania and Estonia before going to St Petersburg. A bit of time there and then over to Moscow, where we're going to get a ticket on the Trans-Mongolian Express. Rather than the original Trans-Siberian which goes straight across Russia to Vladivostok, the Trans-Mongolian cuts down through (you guessed it) Mongolia to deposit you in Beiji...

It's weird, you know. Less than three weeks to go before we set off on a journey that could take years.The amount of things there are to do is astounding. I've got to somehow move out of my flat, store my possessions I don't want to throw away at my parents, and get rid of the rest. I'd like to think that I'm going to take my clothes to a charity shop, but the realist in me is imagining abandoning them all and running away giggling (the reali...

This travelogue will be the home to my upcoming journey around the world with my pal Vinny.The idea, in it's simplest form, is to go once around the globe without resorting to air travel.Along the way, we plan to watch England beat Brazil in the World Cup Final in Berlin, travel across the Trans-Mongolian Railway, work in New Zealand and drive across America with a .45 in the dash*. We'll take in some boat time along the way, and if all goes to plan get a...