Where would you drive to the UK from?
 

OK - slightly less cryptically, we are in Australia, having driven here (well to India and have shipped from there), so have the car here. I am now working in Oz, and will be here for at least year to 18 months (and maybe more). We will then eventually have to ship the car home ( or somewhere else). There is an evens chance we will return to the UK then.

So we are thinking, instead of shipping directly to the UK - why not ship to 'X' and drive home from there?

Now, for the added extra. Jenny is pregnant, and so we will be driving with a yougun, maybe as young as 1. This will mean we won't be necessarily looking for an extra adventure, just the fun of being on the road and seeing a bit more of the world.

Also we don't want to repeat much of our route. Which was UK - eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Stans, China, Pakistan, Iindia.

Any ideas? My daydream glands are working overtime once more :)

adventure or not
 

If you have time, money and are feeling a little adventurous how about shipping to Cape Town and driving up through Africa a fairly well trodden route. If this seems a bit much, ship to Greece and drive up through the Balkans, central Europe, I presume you have a UK registered vehicle so this should present no problems with paperwork.
Mark

Thanks Mark.

I think we have decided to follow your 2nd option, with one change - we will ship to Istanbul and then do a circle of Turkey (we loved it and only stayed 3 weeks last time, and always said we'd have to come back and do the bits we missed), a bit of Georgia (everyone one the road raved about Georgia) - then Greece and somehow home from there.

All very easy, minimal paperwork.

But task one is to find out - what the hell this children thing is all about!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

Bear in mind that children under five do not handle third world or tropical environments well e.g. malaria in such young 'uns is really, really bad news.

My advice is plan accordingly.

Good luck.

DS

Thanks Doc :)

We will certainly be taking it easier with the young'un in tow. We're not really the sort to feel that we can live like we did before with a baby, and really want to take it easy.

For this trip it really will be comforts come first :)

In summer another nice option would be shipping to Moscow, then St. Petersburg, after that either: a) Helsinki, Nordkapp, Oslo/Stockholm, etc or b) Baltics, Poland, etc. If you haven't been to that area, plenty of nice things to see, white nights, nature, history etc and suitable with a little one I'd imagine.