Sunday, 18 January 2009

Genesis

I'm in my last year at school, and most people decide to go on some far flung adventure to Spain for their last ever summer holiday before university, but mostly on planes. So, me and me friend Kyle thought, why not go on a road trip to Spain instead? And instead of having a soulless 2 weeks in some tourist driven s-hole, getting drunk every night and not even remembering the whole thing, It'll be a more cultural experience - and of course I can still get drunk every night - but only with more culture. 

So using only googlemaps and our avid imaginative minds, we plotted a course that would take us through france, belgium, the netherlands, germany, china and then back to spain. This proved to be a logistical nightmare when Kyle refused to drive for more than 4 hours a day (even after I offered caffeine injections), and would have become more of a year long experience than a monthly one. So back to the drawing board again and we decided a more sensible course. Starting off in Scotland, England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and then along the Med Coast to his house in Spain.

Righto then, simple enough, but how much would this cost, 50 quid was my first estimate, but the price escalated to the point where we would need a full team to share the price with, so we started our recruitment drive by asking subtle questions like "Are you free for a month this summer" and "Do you have around 600 quid spare?". We managed to recruit Kenny for the cause early on, a fellow medic hopeful in the same year as me. But finding the fourth member is proving more difficult ...

Doing anything this Summer?