We’re at it again. Laura and I have been planning on taking a trip to Europe for a few years now. This is the first summer where we were “free” (I’ll get into that later), so we decided its time! We started off planning a 5 wk trip, visiting 5 different countries for a week each. However, this slowly, pre-planning, morphed into a 6-week trip, because 5 weeks was already so close to a month and a half. Before we knew it, I had suggested we have a 2-month trip, that way we can really relax and see all of the countries. This is the mindset that we had when we started planning this trip, approximately a week ago, the end of February. But in planning we found a) our brothers wedding won’t be until December, not early September, like we thought and b) Rachel (#2) wouldn’t be able to join us until the middle of July, limiting the countries she can visit. Therefore, we thought the most rational thing to do, was to expand the trip to 3 months. Instead of 6 countries, we plan on visiting approximately 12.
Rachael (#1) came into play when I told her of our plans. She’s known for a long time that we were going to go, eventually, and I’ve always known that she wanted to go to Europe as well. Once we started making definite plans, it came clear that Rachael joining us for the two weeks would be convenient, and fun, for all of us. So Rachael will be with us in Ireland and our adventures in the UK.
Unlike our road trip of the south, where we decided and left in 1 week, this trip takes a little more planning. I’m going to chronicle our adventures in planning our adventure, for all of you to see. I mean, after all, isn’t planning supposed to be half the fun?
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