I've been remiss

I'm sorry, I've been very slack in my entries recently but that's what happens when life just seems to roll on by you. I've been continuing to plan my journey, strangely in reverse order and now I think I have my route from the UK to Australia planned. The next step is to work out where I require visas and which ones I need to get in advance.

The plan is to travel from Edinburgh to London and then on via Eurostar to Brussels. From there I'll head east to Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and St Petersburg in Russia (with maybe a few detours into places like the Czech republic). From here I'll pick up the Trans Siberian railway and head for Vladivostok in the far east where I'll get on a ferry to Japan.

From Japan I'll take another ferry to China and then onward south to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Malaysia. If possible I'd like to see Myanmar but that will depend on the political situation when I get to Thailand.

From Malaysia I'll take the bus to Singapore and then ferry to Indonesia where I'll island hop my way to Dili in East Timor. In East Timor the plan is to get on the weekly Perkins freighter to Darwin which I need to do a bit more investigation on.

My gut tells me it's going to take me about six months to get to Darwin as I want to stop and spend time in each country seeing things. This isn't a whistle stop tour of Europe and Asia.

In with all this planning I'm supposed to be doing my outplacement stuff for finding a job. It's just I can't find the motivation to do it at present. I often seem to bite off more than I can chew and this may be a classic example of that.

Ah well, only thing to do is keep going.