Heathers update on trip planning

I so get why people book tours.  I spent literally hours days and weeks planning our last ten weeks around europe and getting us home. I had some guidelines such as which countries we wanted to see, what the budget constraints were and awhi saying she liked countryside and genuine village experience as well as the city highlights.  

Well having settled on countries and time periods it was then a matter of booking travel and accomodation and the best things to see and do.  No small feat with eleven countries to visit and sixteen lots of accommodation and ten separate lots of travel to book plus a 21 day road trip.

We have used bikes, buses, boats, cars, trains and planes to get around with all of them being good however awhi has started to say she might like a bus tour in another ten years just to save the hassle of parking and of course the aside remarks about being the solo driver. We have also used a range of accommodation options apartments, hostels, budget hotels, bed and breakfast and airbnb with preference probably for our own room, chance to make a cuppa and a bit of local knowledge thrown in. 

I get a little trip planner anxiety  every time we are driving in some remote area for miles on a single lane road  that i might have stuffed up the booking on this one. In most cases it works out ok.  For instance tonight  we drove around the rurals of  figeac looking for our accommodation for the next three nights however after driving around for awhile we gave up  and looked up the longitude and latitude coordinates  and the gps then sent us down a stunning valley to come to a stop at a beautiful stone villa where the women who greeted us was irish and showed us our fabulous room and adjoining lounge with wifi, views over the farm and great facilities. Whew got this one right. In fact Awhi says it's her favourite so far.