Here's a link to our proposed route: http://tinyurl.com/2jz7ja (may take a little while to load)
This is only roughly plotted on Google maps so definitely won't be the final route but it shows what we're thinking of. Google estimates the distance as 3,216 km (just under 2000 miles)! Spread over 3 months this works out at an average of 20 miles per day - it seems like a much smaller distance if you say it like that!
If any of you lovely people reading this have family or friends along this route feel free to let us know! (Only if they've got a spare room or a space in the garden though...we don't really care about your families or friends)
The route shown is actually backwards - we will start in Cherbourg and finish in Palermo. Originally we were planning on going in the other direction (hence the backwards route) but realised that it would probably be better to chase the summer south than start cycling in Sicily, in August. Also heading south means you're going downhill, right?
This is only roughly plotted on Google maps so definitely won't be the final route but it shows what we're thinking of. Google estimates the distance as 3,216 km (just under 2000 miles)! Spread over 3 months this works out at an average of 20 miles per day - it seems like a much smaller distance if you say it like that!
If any of you lovely people reading this have family or friends along this route feel free to let us know! (Only if they've got a spare room or a space in the garden though...we don't really care about your families or friends)
The route shown is actually backwards - we will start in Cherbourg and finish in Palermo. Originally we were planning on going in the other direction (hence the backwards route) but realised that it would probably be better to chase the summer south than start cycling in Sicily, in August. Also heading south means you're going downhill, right?
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