On the road

Schedule already out of the window as we decided to enjoy some Bordeaux wine ... in Bordeaux. (sorry no photographic evidence for the steve farrar drink challenge - see comment to previous post)
Can't really say we've been "roughing" it so far - stayed with some chums south of Paris on the first night and met their gorgeous wee baby Ella. Thought we might plough on to Spain for Day Two ... but decided it was best if we stayed another night in France to find out how the GCSE French was holding up - badly.
About to head off - Joanna's driving today ...

Ready to go!

Joanna's got her New Zealand visa! Brilliant. We were thinking we'd have to fly back to pick it up, but it came through in double quick time - go New Zealand Immigration! (yes, we're disorganised as ever)
So we went in and picked up today, all nicely printed in Joanna's passport. And we're ready to go. Or at least we will be once we've finished (& indeed started) packing tonight. Tomorrow we head off for a family weekend, so everything has to be done by then. We head straight to France from there on Monday. We just need to buy a camp stove in the morning (we've a little one, but for this I think we can justify something a bit better for a journey like this).

Oh yes, we sent out an email to friends yesterday for those who want mass emails every 2-4 weeks along the way. But in our recent transferals of email addresses from machine to machine we're pretty sure we've lost an email address or 3 - email us if you want the mass emails and we missed you off the list (sorry). Thanks to those who've already replied.

Righty we better go pack.