I have booked our ferry tickets for our Bournemouth – Torrevieja trip. We will be leaving Dover on Saturday, 3rd October at 07:45 and arriving in Boulogne at 09:45. Return tickets are also booked from Boulogne on Friday, 23rd October at 10:45 and arriving back in Dover at 11:00 (don’t forget the hour time difference). We’re now past the point of no return, there’s no going back now!
When I booked the tickets I realised how this ferry crossing is pretty much the only fixed part of our route. I keep questioning our “just go and think about it later” approach to planning; should I be planning a route? Should I be booking accommodation? What if we don’t see anything, find anything to eat or meet anybody on the way? Then I remembered my original goal; this trip shouldn’t be about rushing to a destination, it shouldn’t be about how many things we see and do, there shouldn’t be a checklist to tick off. This trip should be about the two of us discovering things that many others may have explored before, but by going without knowing where we’ll end up every day, I really believe these things will be even better if and when we discover them for ourselves.