The basic itinerary

I’m submitting my PhD thesis in less than three weeks, and flying to Edinburgh to give a talk at AHM08. After that, I’m taking six months off and backpacking around Europe. Awww, yeah!

I’ll be trying to keep this blog updated with photos, stories and whatnot while I’m away. Here’s the current plan:

Location	Arrive	Depart
Edinburgh (more)	Sep 6	Sep 13
Padua	Sep 13	Sep 20
Rome and Sicily (more)	Sep 20	Oct 6
Iceland	Oct 6	Oct 12
Moscow	Oct 12	Oct 19
St Petersburg	Oct 20	Oct 26
Finland	Oct 26	Oct 28
Sweden	Oct 28	Nov 3
Norway (more)	Nov 3	Nov 13
Denmark	Nov 13	Nov 15
Netherlands	Nov 16	Nov 28
Belgium	Nov 28	Dec 1
France (more, more, more)	Dec 1	Dec 26
Switzerland	Dec 26	Jan 1
Germany	Jan 1	Jan 5
Czech Republic (more)	Jan 6	Jan 16
Slovenia	Jan 17	Jan 20
Austria	Jan 20	Jan 22
Spain (more, more, more, more)	Jan 22	Feb 2, Feb 18
Morocco (more)	Feb 3	Feb 17
Portugal	Feb 19	Feb 23
London	Feb 24	Mar 1

I’m hoping to see some hockey in Russia, Finland and Sweden. Maybe I’ll buy new skates too. Apart from that, it’s all about the scenery, the cultures, and not being in Australia.