Actual route
Here is where we’ve spent each night of our route. The black line is where we traveled in the motorhome (September 2020 to November 2022), the red line is our African travels (December 2022 to June 2023), the green line is our travels around central, south and north America (from July 2023 to April 2024), the baby blue line is our travels around southern Africa (May 2024 to date) and the dark blue line shows side trips (typically when we flew somewhere to visit friends and family).
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Our original proposed motorhome route – the European tour (non-Schengen countries)
This is the route we had planned to follow in the motorhome before the corona virus delayed our plans. We will need to revise the route once we have a new departure date. Read our blog about our thoughts on our revised route here.
The first part of the tour will start in France and end in Istanbul. This will coincid with, what we expect to be, our first 3-month period out of the Schengen Zone). After 3 months we head north to Scandinavia before ending to the United Kingdom (and our second 3-month period out of the Schengen Zone). We plan to fly from Bergen to the Lofoten Islands.
We will not be following exactly along the blue line but rather using it as a guide to get us around. The proposed route serves 3 purposes; to make sure we see as much as possible, to ensure we don’t get caught too far north in winter (we’re from the tropics remember) and to ensure we are near the edge of the Schengen Zone once we need to start doing the Schengen Shuffle (thanks to Brexit).
Please check back regularly as once we’ve started , I plan to map our actual route.
After Europe we plan to ship the motorhome to southern Africa, Australia & New Zealand and North America. Then we plan to slow travel around Asia and South America.