Welcome!

"Where are Matt and Audrey now?" is a question we expect a lot of you will be asking over the coming months. Unlike most things however, it can't be answered directly by google. In fact, searching for that very phrase returns 12.5 million results; none of them even remotely related to us. Actually I only checked the first 40, but that's twice as far as anyone ever looks, right?!

Moving on, and being as techno-malogically advanced as we both claim to be, we've created a little blog to help us keep in touch. Once we're on the road, our aim will be to update at least daily with stories, pictures and fun facts about our travels.

We would love to hear from you along the way. Any thing. Any time. Guide us with things and places nearby which we must see. Arm us with the finest swear words for our current location (be sure to include sample usage). Challenge us with tasks to complete along the way. Berate us for not providing regular enough updates. Inform us with sports scores and news from home. Annoy us with grammar and spelling mistake corrections.

Anyway, it feels like it's been forever since we started planning it, and yet we still only have a half-baked itinerary to show for it. Less than half of our accommodation is booked, we won't understand the language pretty much anywhere we are going. Our goal for this trip was immersion though, and I think we'll get it. We're trying to generally avoid the most touristy places and major cities, although there is a bit of that along the way. We've spent ages on CouchSurfing trying to find hosts we think sound really cool and would be fun and interesting to spend time with while we travel. We're hoping to learn a lot as we go and this blog shall be a testament to that.

Before I go any further, a massive shoutout to The Mansh... Fellow co-habitants of 278 Trinity Road - Thanks for an awesome year you guys. Couldn't have asked for better housemates.

278 does Marbella

Apologies we've been kind of house-bound lately, especially when the sun is FINALLY showing it's face. Three years in London and this is the first month of warmth! And it rained just when the Aussies were about to smash the Poms in Manchester. Typical.

The PLAN

Stay tuned for a more complete itinerary, but here's a little teaser of trip stats:
48 days

10 countries

6 hours on planes

33 hours on trains

2200 km in a car

We'll be setting off from London's Stansted Airport on August 23.