Ollie,
We agree with the replys you got, We have been on 5 pre trips and found the Laptop was a pain, good for internet cafes and writing up diarys and dont forget watching films.
We have finaly gone with the Garmin Nuvi 660 after advise from Tom Bird at Garmin UK, we have used the laptop to create a list of waypoints of places to visit in the european mapping and saved areas of the world map passed Turkey then being able to download the mapping with waypoints to the nuvi as we go along, saves memory in the unit not that we need it with 2 Mb innt the nuvi.
Another good thing with the nuvi is its discreate, bright screen, you can use it on its btys. We have also bought good old paper mapping from Stanfords.
What club did you go to wales with was it Shire as we used to live in Gosport?
But good luck on your trip planning, get away as much as you can for a minimum of 1 week to 10 days at a time, then write a Post exercise report in a log book as you go along full of all the things you need to change sort out.
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