Ready, steady….

It’s now 7.15pm on Wednesday evening and I’m beginning to feel a little apprehensive. The taxi is (hopefully) collecting me at 4.15am tomorrow with a view to getting to Ashford International station by 5.30am.

The last time I went off on an extended(?) journey on my own was back in 1971, over the four day Easter break. On that occasion I caught the ferry from Dover to Ostend and then hitchhiked down through Belgium to Luxembourg. Once there I caught the train back as I had to be back at work on the Tuesday following Easter Monday. It seems a long time ago but to quote a line from Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages”, ‘I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’.

There is also a quote I saw recently from a fellow traveller. I don’t know if he thought of it or found it elsewhere. It’s –

And so the story goes

That with a single step

An extraordinary journey unfolds..

So here we go…..